Abstract
In order to solve the problem of foundation settlement monitoring, this paper presents a monitoring program of substation foundation settlement, which is based on the distributed optical sensing technology. The composition of the hardware monitoring system and the wiring scheme of stress optical cables were described. The results of simulation experiment showed that the Brillouin optical time domain analysis could well meet the precision requirements of substation settlement monitoring. Moreover, the temperature reference optical fibers should be laid for temperature compensation. This paper can provide the basis for further prevention of substation foundation settlement.