FBGS is a market-leading developer and manufacturer of high-quality Fiber Optic Sensing (FOS) products and solutions. Built on its proprietary, patented and in-house developed Fiber-Bragg-Grating (FBG) technology, the Company‘s integrated product portfolio is comprised of FBG fiber, sensors, interrogator devices and software delivering compelling and peerless sensor performance and measurement results for a wide range of emerging sensing applications and industries. Headquartered in Germany with operations in Belgium, and sales offices in China, and North-America – FBGS serves its customer base locally supported by dedicated solution engineering and application teams based in Jena (Germany) and Geel (Belgium).
Product and Technology
Fiber optic sensors (FOS) are most often an enabling technology and value-add component of a larger measurement or monitoring system. The ability to create a distributed network of sensors is a primary advantage of FOS over competing electronic sensor technologies. The most important recent technological advantage in FOS technology was the development of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors – with FBGS being one of the first movers and pioneers in this market. FBG’s manufactured (inscribed) along the length of a fiber are considered intrinsic multiplexed sensors and can include hundreds of individual sensor bragg gratings on a single optical fiber enabling highly accurate and stable measurements. FOS’ make it also possible to measure strain, temperature and pressure under harsh conditions where other legacy sensor technologies fail. New parameter measurements are also driving the development of the global FBG market, with FBG shape and contact force sensing – pioneered by FBGS – paving the way for increasing adoption of the FBG sensing technology in new application fields and industries such as medical and health-care.
Integrated FBG sensing solutions solving critical measurements tasks in high-volume applications
With production capacities for up 2,500 km of DTG-Fiber per year at its newly built 2,000 sqm facility in Jena – complemented by interrogator assembly capacities and an in-house software development team – the Company is currently the only FBG vendor in the market with the capability to deliver an entire FOS (FBG) measurement chain, including high-grade FBG fibers (FSG/DTG), FBG sensors, measurement devices and software as a fully integrated FBG-sensing solution for high-volume applications at scale. The measurement data generated by smart FBG sensors and further processed, streamed and pre-analyzed on an interrogator level – also provides a clean and structured raw data and parameter set for advanced downstream IIoT data analytics on a larger enterprise solution level.
FBGS is actively engaged and contracted with a growing blue-chip customer base from the medical, industrial process, infrastructure, energy, and aviation industry. Typical sensing applications for Critical Infrastructure use cases include temperature, strain, pressure and vibration measurements used to ensure operational safety and to increase efficiency of underlying assets. Leading MedTech companies are converting to FBGS fiber technology (DTG fiber, gratings, interrogator, and software) and its shape / force sensing capabilities to advance their next generation medical device offerings for clinical markets designed to improve healthcare efficiency in operating rooms.