Offshore cable condition monitoring

Our solution

Synaptec’s Cable Condition Monitoring (CCM) platform is a simple and powerful solution to enable health monitoring of cable junctions and terminations. Using Synaptec’s Distributed Electrical Sensing (DES) technology, CCM delivers real-time, high-quality data on the cable screen earthing points and ambient temperature. Integrated and customisable threshold alarms and live measurement data are easily integrated with existing SCADA systems, giving wind farm operators awareness and actionable information on the health and status of terminations.

Synaptec’s unique Distributed Electrical Sensing (DES) technology leverages existing optical fibres to instrument up to 21 mechanical or up to 30 electrical sensors over a 60 km range.

Synaptec sensors do not require data networks, control power, expensive civil works, or time sources at any measurement location, taking as little as 30 minutes per sensor to install.

Current measurements are IEC 60044/IEC 61869 compliant. Temperature measurements are accurate to +/-0.5 °C, allowing the temperature of individual components, such as terminations, to be precisely and discretely monitored. All data – electrical and thermal – are precisely timestamped centrally by the Interrogator module for analysis of fault precursors and trends.

CCM is focused on providing early warning of premature termination failure. CCM is compatible with complementary mid-span optical monitoring technologies such as DTS and DAS and can share the same optical fibre core as those technologies.