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Monitoring temperature and strain in a mine
17.01.2026

Monitoring rock movement and temperature in a mine

Continuous Distributed fiber optic strain and temperature DFOS measurements are running, 147 m below ground in Freiberg’s mine Reiche Zeche.

Thank you to TU Bergakademie Freiberg and Technische Universität Clausthal for the excellent collaboration in the MOVIE project. The project (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research), aims to develop a digital twin of part of an underground mine.

A paper authored by Michael Martin, Nils Nöther and Jens-André Paffenholz may be found here

Mine monitoring projects demand:
- precise and early detection of geotechnical events
- safety criticality assessment
- surveillance of long linear structures
- operation in challenging environments
- measurement and location accuracy and reliability.

All users have cloud-based access to the continuous data.

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