NOVA technology is sensitive to any external physical change introducing disturbance in the fibre, such as temperature, strain, pressure, vibration, humidity, inclination etc.
Fibre Bragg Grating technology (FBG) represents the most common technology for discrete optical fibre sensing.
Compared to FBG standards, NOVA moves the bar ≈ two order of magnitude higher in respect to the most critical sensing parameters.
NOVA concept merges the features of discrete and distributed fibre sensing techniques, covering a wider range of applications with the same technology.