The invention discloses a distributed IoT terminal system and method based on a fiber optic bus RoF. The system comprises a core application part, a pre-channel part, a transmission channel part, an acquisition field part, an acquisition terminal part and a data source. The invention adopts the principle of light-borne ROF to adapt to pan-socialization, decentralization, verticalization, refinement, full traceability, full lifecycle management and governance, instant, real-time, online, interactive and distributed IoT applications. The integrated and integrated application of the invention improves social efficiency and saves social cost. It may be integrated and integrated the application into any application systems, and realized dynamic instant, real-time, online, centimeter level positioning application. It can infer the specific location of the positioning device. The invention combined ROF and RFID and combined high-speed bus and RFID technology to solve the “last mile problem” of RFID and physical offline applications.

The invention discloses a distributed IoT terminal system and method based on a fiber optic bus RoF. The system comprises a core application part, a pre-channel part, a transmission channel part, an acquisition field part, an acquisition terminal part and a data source. The invention adopts the principle of light-borne ROF to adapt to pan-socialization, decentralization, verticalization, refinement, full traceability, full lifecycle management and governance, instant, real-time, online, interactive and distributed IoT applications. The integrated and integrated application of the invention improves social efficiency and saves social cost. It may be integrated and integrated the application into any application systems, and realized dynamic instant, real-time, online, centimeter level positioning application. It can infer the specific location of the positioning device. The invention combined ROF and RFID and combined high-speed bus and RFID technology to solve the “last mile problem” of RFID and physical offline applications.

In a particular embodiment, optical communications in a battery pack is disclosed that includes generating, by a module monitoring system of a battery management system, sensor data; encoding, by the module monitoring system, the sensor data into an optical signal; sending, by the module monitoring system, to a data aggregator, the sensor data as the optical signal; and decoding, by the data aggregator, the optical signal into the sensor data.

A method for time synchronization using distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) that employs several trusted time beacons that are attached to the DFOS sensing fiber which in turn is connected to the DFOS interrogator. The beacons transmit their signal via two different mediums, (1) wirelessly to sensor nodes in the coverage area, and (2) through vibrations on fiber to the DFOS/DAS system located at a trusted area such as the central office. Wireless broadcast to nearby sensors includes a timestamp and beacon ID. All the sensors in the field use one of the beacons in their vicinity (the one with the strongest signal) as their time reference and send the data back with the corresponding beacon index.

An optical communication system configured with a station-side apparatus and a plurality of subscriber-side apparatuses in a bus network topology includes an optical amplification unit installed on a station side, and a drop unit configured to branch an optical signal and excitation light, wherein the optical amplification unit includes an amplifier configured to amplify a downlink signal, and an excitation light output unit configured to output the excitation light for amplifying an uplink signal to a communication path, and the drop unit changes a branching ratio in accordance with a wavelength of the optical signal so that a transmission loss of the excitation light with respect to a trunk fiber is reduced.

An optical access network includes an optical hub having at least one processor, and a plurality of optical fiber strands. Each optical fiber strand has a first strand end connected to the optical hub. The network further includes a plurality of nodes connected to at least one segment of a first fiber strand of the plurality of optical fiber strands. Each node is sequentially disposed at respective locations along the first fiber strand at different differences from the optical hub, respectively. The network further includes a plurality of end-points. Each end-point includes a receiver. Each respective receiver (i) has a different optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) from the other receivers, (ii) is operably coupled with at least one node of the plurality of nodes, and (iii) is configured to receive the same optical wavelength signal from the first fiber strand as received by the other receivers.

The present disclosure relates to an optical repeater system for 5th generation (5G) mobile communication. The optical repeater system does not require an additional optical wavelength for a plurality of remote units and can increase the transmission capacity by adding a remote unit without incurring an unnecessary cost, thereby facilitating high-speed and large-capacity data transmission. In addition, the optical repeater system can transmit/receive both a high-speed and large-capacity service signal, as an analog optical signal, and a management control signal, as a digital optical signal, between a master unit and a plurality of remote units. Also, the optical repeater system can selectively and differently compensate for propagation delay times of multiple paths between a terminal and a base station in a mobile communication system, especially, in the 5G mobile communication system.

The present disclosure relates to an optical repeater system for 5th generation (5G) mobile communication. The optical repeater system does not require an additional optical wavelength for a plurality of remote units and can increase the transmission capacity by adding a remote unit without incurring an unnecessary cost, thereby facilitating high-speed and large-capacity data transmission. In addition, the optical repeater system can transmit/receive both a high-speed and large-capacity service signal, as an analog optical signal, and a management control signal, as a digital optical signal, between a master unit and a plurality of remote units. Also, the optical repeater system can selectively and differently compensate for propagation delay times of multiple paths between a terminal and a base station in a mobile communication system, especially, in the 5G mobile communication system.

An apparatus for subsea environment sensing. In one aspect, the apparatus may include a repeater assembly, disposed in an optical repeater; and an environmental sensor assembly, disposed proximate to the repeater assembly, the environmental sensor assembly being coupled to receive power from the repeater assembly over an optical link.

An apparatus for subsea environment sensing. In one aspect, the apparatus may include a repeater assembly, disposed in an optical repeater; and an environmental sensor assembly, disposed proximate to the repeater assembly, the environmental sensor assembly being coupled to receive power from the repeater assembly over an optical link.