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AP Sensing recently conducted trackside fire trials with the German rail operator, Deutsche Bahn! The trials took place approximately 45 km outside of Berlin in Michendorf, Germany, and were carried out by the local fire department. Experimenting with various types of fire accelerants in a cable duct, the tests were administered to test the response times and early detection capabilities of our Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) N45-Series system….tests were conducted near operational rail tracks in a cable trough that contained copper cables, telecommunication cables and fiber optic cables, all critical to rail operations….test results were incredibly successful
Deutsche Bahn Cable Duct Fire Tests
AP Sensing News September 23, 2021
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