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The photonic skins developed in PHOSFOS have applications in continuously monitoring the integrity and the behavior of different kinds of structures in e.g. civil engineering (buildings, dams, bridges, roads, tunnels and mines), in aerospace (aircraft wings, helicopter blades) or in energy production (windmill blades) and therefore provide the necessary means for remote early failure, anomaly or danger warning. Applications in healthcare are also being investigated.
== Key results so far ==
Latest results can be found on the PhosFOS EU webpage [http://www.phosfos.eu/index.php/eng/Phosfos/Conferences-and-Presentations]. One of the early results from the project was the successful demonstration of a repeatable method of joining the polymer fiber to standard silica fibre. This was a major development and allowed for the first time POF Bragg gratings to be used in real applications outside of the optics lab. One of the first uses for these sensors was in monitoring the strain of tapestries <ref>http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/68650/01/137_Lennard.pdf</ref>.
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