Cable Monitoring Solutions

For onshore applications, monitoring the temperature of your cables is crucial. External factors, like a farmer placing a haystack over the cable or road repaving, can cause a cable’s temperature to rise, potentially leading to overheating. Additionally, excavation or construction work near your cables can be a risk, which can be detected through vibration monitoring.

NKT also uses real-time temperature sensing and vibration monitoring to detect anomalies early and prevent overheating or damage—ensuring safer and more reliable cable operation.

Offshore wind park cables are vulnerable to damage from fishing gear or dropped anchors. Monitoring the burial depth of your offshore cables is essential, especially as they often cross busy shipping lanes.

To enhance protection, NKT uses Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology to detect vibrations and disturbances along submarine cables—enabling proactive intervention before issues escalate.

Interconnectors link the power grids of different countries, enabling the opportunity to benefit from price arbitrages between markets. While protecting these cables is crucial, advanced technologies are also available to help maximise the throughput of your assets, ensuring efficient and reliable cross-border energy transmission.

Monitoring also helps optimise load capacity and enables early fault detection—especially important in high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems where performance and uptime are critical.