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ScatterwaysDTS / DAS interrogator
Distributed temperature and acoustic sensing

Your fibre is a sensor. Switch it on.

Scatterways reads the temperature every half metre along the fibre-optic cable you already have, and can listen along it too. One field box, rented by the month, run by us. Results on a dashboard, through an API, or as files your tools already open. Configured for your site, and built to order when the standard box does not fit.

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  • 0m
    a temperature reading, or an acoustic channel, every half metre of fibre
  • 0km
    acoustic reach on one fibre; temperature to 10 km
  • Anysite
    your sensors, your power, your data path. Built to order when the standard box does not fit
  • 0afternoon
    from opening the case to the first trace
1 a flash of light goes in 2 every half metre of cable reports its temperature 3 you get the whole profile 14 °C 8 °C temperature cold inflow, 700 m warm spot, 1,500 m SCATTERWAYS the box 0 m500 m1,000 m1,500 m2,000 m your cable, 2 km, as it lies in the ground
  • Rented by the month. Nothing to buy
  • Single-mode and multimode fibre
  • Plug it in yourself, or we install it. We run it
  • Not on the list? We build to order
Why now

Fibre sensing is proven. Getting it has been the hard part.

Instruments that read temperature along a fibre have existed since the 1980s, and good field units exist. What has kept them out of most projects is what it takes to own one. One measurement per box, one fibre type per unit, a vendor toolchain, and a second instrument and a second budget the day you want acoustics too.

Typical today

  • A capital purchase, then a second one for acoustics
  • Temperature and acoustics usually mean two instruments
  • One fibre type per unit. The other type means another unit
  • Vendor formats first. A conversion step before your tools
  • Adding acoustics later means a second procurement
  • The box comes as it comes

Scatterways

  • One monthly rental. Instrument, cable, operation and processing in one line
  • Temperature and acoustics in one box
  • Single-mode and multimode in the same unit
  • Open files from the first reading
  • Acoustics added to the rental as a tile, not a second instrument
  • Configured for your site. Built to order when it needs to be
The instrument

One box. Two measurements. Your fibre.

Rent it for temperature and add the acoustic tile later, in the field. Or for acoustics. Or both from day one. Pick a configuration below to see it.

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  • DTS

    Temperature

    Distributed temperature on single-mode and multimode fibre. Hydrology, glaciology, geothermal.

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  • Most asked forDTS + DAS

    Temperature + acoustic

    Both, time-interleaved on one fibre. Wells, pipelines, combined studies.

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  • DAS

    Acoustic

    Quantitative strain on single-mode fibre. Dark-fibre seismology and research arrays.

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Same enclosure, firmware and data stack in every configuration. Start with one, grow into the other.

Have fibre? Plug it in.

Single-mode or multimode, any common APC connector. Research cables, telecom fibre, downhole cable. Tell us the type, length and where the ends are.

No fibre yet? It comes with the rental.

Armoured sensing cable for stream beds and trenches, slim cable for boreholes, single-mode, multimode or both in one jacket. Terminated, tested and on a reel cut to your length.

What you get

Built for people who have a fibre and a question.

  • Works with the cable you have

    Single-mode or multimode, any common connector. Research cables are mostly multimode, telecom and well fibres are single-mode. Most instruments pick one. This one reads both. No cable yet? We supply that too.

  • Weeks on a battery

    One profile an hour, about 20 days on a 100 Ah battery. Add a panel and leave it for the season.

  • Calibrates on your cable

    Designed so field calibration is automatic. Two temperature-controlled reference coils inside the box and a read from both ends of the loop.

  • Your data, your tools

    A live dashboard with the analytics done. An API and MQTT feed if you want to do your own. Files in netCDF, CSV, HDF5 and miniSEED if you just want the data. All three, always.

  • Installed in an afternoon

    It ships in a case. Your technician connects fibre, power and network on a video call with us, or we come and do it. From then on we operate it remotely.

  • Always the current instrument

    You rent the measurement, not the hardware. When a faster digitiser or a new tile comes, it goes into the box on your site. Nothing to depreciate, nothing to write off.

Your data, three ways

Dashboard, API or files. All three, always.

Every rental comes with the analytics done for you and the raw data open to you. Use whichever fits the people who will look at it.

  • for the people who want the answer

    Dashboard

    Live profiles along the fibre, time series at the points you care about, alarms, and the campaign report. In your browser, shared with your team, nothing to install.

  • for the people who build their own

    API and live feed

    REST for profiles, events and status. MQTT for live values. Modbus for the control room. Pull it into your own dashboards, notebooks or SCADA, on your schedule.

  • for the people who want the data

    Files

    netCDF that loads straight into the open-source toolchain the research community uses, plus CSV, HDF5, miniSEED and SEG-Y. Yours to keep, from the first reading.

Built to order

The standard box fits most sites. For the rest, we adapt it.

Every rental is configured for the site. When the site asks for more than the configuration menu, we build it. Tell us the question and the constraints, and we tell you what it takes.

  • 01

    Your sensors

    Water level, flow, pressure, weather, your own PT100s. If it speaks SDI-12, RS-485, 4 to 20 mA or pulses, it plugs into the box and lands in the same file. Something else, we add the interface.

  • 02

    Your site

    No power, no network, no road. Solar, fuel cell, satellite link, air-gapped with configuration by hand, offshore, down a 2 km well. We have a plan for each, and we build the ones we do not.

  • 03

    Your data path

    Straight into your hydrology toolchain, your seismology archive, your SCADA or your cloud account. Your format, your alarm logic, your report template.

Tell us what you need
See it

Temperature and sound. Same cable, same box.

A warm spot at 1,500 m shows in the temperature trace. With the acoustic tile, the same fibre picks up what moves there. Two independent signatures at one point along the cable is a finding, not an artefact.

0 m500 m1,000 m1,500 m2,000 m TEMPERATURE, °C ALONG FIBRE 14 8 +4.1 °C over 10 m STRAIN RATE ALONG FIBRE persistent source, 1,500 m same place, both channels
Where it pays off

Start with the question. The fibre answers it.

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How you get it

From a call to first data in four steps.

  1. 1

    Talk to us

    Tell us about your fibre and your question. We tell you straight whether it is a fit and what it takes on your site.

  2. 2

    The box ships

    A field case, the cable if you need one, and a one-page checklist. Nothing to configure, nothing to buy.

  3. 3

    Plug in, or we install

    Your technician connects fibre, power and network in an afternoon on a video call with us. If you would rather we did it, we come to site.

  4. 4

    We run it. You get answers.

    We operate it remotely and do the processing. Results appear on your dashboard, through the API or as files in your formats, and the first measurement report follows.

Tested on your fibre, not in a brochure.

Every unit ships with an acceptance benchmark that is run on the customer's own cable. Every figure we publish carries the fibre, the length and the averaging time it was taken with.

Key figures

The numbers, with their conditions.

Full specifications

Need something outside these numbers? Longer fibre, finer resolution, a sensor we have not listed. Ask. Much of it is a configuration away, and we build to order where it is not. Tell us what you need.

  • Temperature range0.5 to 5 km single-mode; multimode to about 10 km
  • Spatial resolution0.5 m class; 0.48 m on 2 km single-mode
  • Temperature noise0.11 K at 2 km, 5 min averaging
  • Acoustic range40 to 50 km single-ended
  • Gauge length1 to 40 m, software selectable
  • Power9 to 36 V DC or 802.3bt PoE; 2.3 W averaged, duty-cycled
  • EnclosureIP67 field case, fanless; -20 to +50 C
  • Files and livenetCDF, CSV, HDF5, miniSEED, SEG-Y; Modbus, MQTT, REST
How you rent it

By the month. We run it. Nothing to buy.

Every rental includes the instrument, the cable if you need one, help with installation, remote operation and the processing. One monthly line on one budget.

  • A campaign

    A thermal response test, a leak survey, a week on a dam. From two weeks. The box arrives, does its job, goes back.

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  • A season

    A stream through the summer, a borehole through the winter, a well through an injection. Month by month, for as long as the question takes.

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  • Continuous monitoring

    Years on a pipeline or a geothermal field. A service contract. We keep it running, you get the alarms and the reports.

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Contact

Put your fibre to work.

Tell us about your fibre and your question. You get a call, a plan for your site and a monthly price. If it is not a fit, we will say so.

Denmark.

How long for?
We answer within two working days.