Sestosensor, a company founded in 2009 in Bologna, has made significant advancements in the field of photonics by producing fiber-optic sensors. These sensors offer unique technical and environmental benefits, leading to their expanded use across numerous industrial sectors.
Notably, within the oil industry, they play a key role in detecting leaks in gas and oil pipelines. Additionally, Sestosensor's technology is used in aqueducts, mining, and infrastructure such as dams, bridges, and tunnels to prevent failures, reduce risks, and minimize maintenance costs, thereby ensuring the long-lasting safety of these structures.
Technology Development Projects
Sestosensor actively participates in various European research and technology development initiatives. The company has leveraged its patents and proprietary knowledge to manufacture high-tech photonic interrogators internally.
Sestosensor actively participates in various European research and technology development initiatives
One unique achievement includes monitoring the micro-cracks of Michelangelo's David at the Accademia Gallery in Florence. With a comprehensive portfolio, Sestosensor's technologies span from Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors, which facilitate non-invasive monitoring, to 'distributed' sensors. These sensors employ existing optical fibers by injecting laser pulses, thereby functioning as 'virtual' sensors. They measure critical parameters like mechanical deformations, crack progression, temperature shifts, vibrations, and oscillations, allowing real-time detection of anomalies over long distances.
Acquisition by SOCOTEC Italy
Massimo De Iasi, CEO of SOCOTEC Italy, remarked on the acquisition's significance, stating, "The acquisition of Sestosensor allows us to strengthen our technologies to support our customers in large projects for the control and monitoring of infrastructure and beyond."
He added, "The technologies developed and patented by Sestosensor for SOCOTEC Italy open up new market scenarios such as the monitoring of our immense archaeological and artistic heritage, and the reduction of environmental risks in oil & gas infrastructures."
Integration of Skills
Filippo Bastianini, Sestosensor's founder, expressed enthusiasm about joining forces with SOCOTEC Italia: "My team and I are proud to join the SOCOTEC Italia experts. The integration of our skills with those of the entire Group allows us to compete at the forefront, to better respond to the new technological and ecological challenges of the coming decades, and to contribute to making SOCOTEC Group the global leader in the sector."
This merger exemplifies the companies' commitment to addressing new market demands and the challenges arising from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
Sestosensor is a company founded in 2009 in Bologna that operates in the field of photonics by developing and producing fiber-optic sensors that, due to their unique technical and environmental sustainability advantages, have growing applications in many industrial sectors.
Sestosensor's products are on the market in applications ranging from the oil industry, where they are used, for example, to detect leaks in gas and oil pipelines, to aqueducts, mines, and infrastructures, such as dams, bridges, and tunnels, for failure prevention, risk reduction, and maintenance costs, in order to extend their life in total safety.
Technology development projects
Sestosensor is involved in several European research and technology development projects
Sestosensor is involved in several European research and technology development projects. Its patents and proprietary know-how allow it to produce high-tech photonic interrogators in-house and it has realized unique applications such as the monitoring of the micro-cracks of Michelangelo's David preserved in the Accademia Gallery in Florence.
Sestosensor has a complete portfolio of products covering all the most high-performance technologies from Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors for more limited non-invasive monitoring, to 'distributed' sensors that use an optical fiber even already installed by injecting laser pulses into a 'virtual' sensor capable of measuring vital parameters such as mechanical deformations at every point, evolution of cracks and fissures, temperature variations, vibrations and oscillations that allow real-time identification of the type, location and severity of any anomalies over long distances.
Acquisition of Sestosensor
For Massimo De Iasi, CEO of SOCOTEC Italy: "The acquisition of Sestosensor allows us to strengthen our technologies to support our customers in large projects for the control and monitoring of infrastructure and beyond.”
“The technologies developed and patented by Sestosensor for SOCOTEC Italy open up new market scenarios such as the monitoring of our immense archaeological and artistic heritage, and the reduction of environmental risks in oil & gas infrastructures."
He continues: "The development plan we are implementing allows us to address new market demands and be ready to face and respond to the challenges coming from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan."
Integration of skills
Filippo Bastianini, founder of Sestosensor: "My team and I are proud to join the SOCOTEC Italia experts. The integration of our skills with those of the entire Group allows us to compete at the forefront, to better respond to the new technological and ecological challenges of the coming decades, and to contribute to making SOCOTEC Group the global leader in the sector.”
