One power company hopes to share its fiber-based alert system to prevent the...
One power company hopes to share its fiber-based alert system to prevent the theft of copper. Adapt IP will help Southern Co. sell its technology, which involves installing multimode fiber cable to safeguard the master ground bar and sound alarms…
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if necessary, it said in a Wednesday release (http://xrl.us/boa4do). Southern Co. is responsible for and uses this system in various parts of its network sites, said Adapt IP. It’s partnering with Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power to monetize this non-metallic alarm system, which awaits a patent. Copper theft poses a huge financial and safety threat for everyone from power companies to cell tower operators, Adapt IP said: “Theft deterrents (e.g., painting copper grounds, tin-coated copper, motion sensors, tracing) have been ineffective, and with economic pressure increasing, there has been no sign of the thefts subsiding.” Alarms sound when fiber is broken, it said. Adapt IP can sell the idea as “service/installation product, provide monitoring or simply sell the hardware as a catalog item,” the release said.