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Sensors 2010, 10, 4194-4205; doi:10.3390/s100504194 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Reliable Fiber Sensor System with Star-Ring-Bus Architecture Peng-Chun Peng 1,*, Jun-Bo Wang 1 and Kuan-Yan Huang 2 1 Department of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan; E-Mail: aupt1215@ 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chi Nan University, Nantou County, Taiwan; E-Mail: hky_tw@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: pcpeng@.tw; Tel.: +886-2-2771-2171, Ext 4671; Fax: +886-2-8773-3216. Received: 5 January 2010; in revised form: 8 April 2010 / Accepted: 20 April 2010 / Published: 27 April 2010 Abstract: This work presents a novel star-ring-bus sensor system and demonstrates its effectiveness. The main trunk of the proposed sensor system is a star topology and the sensing branches comprise a series of bus subnets. Any weakness in the reliability of the sensor system is overcome by adding remote nodes and switches to the ring and bus subnets. To construct the proposed star-ring-bus sensor system, a fiber ring laser scheme is used to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the sensor system. The proposed system increases the reliability and capacity of fiber sensor systems. Keywords: sensor system; star-ring-bus architecture; fiber Bragg grating 1. Introduction Fiber grating sensors are important sensing elements [1,2]. They are effective for strain [3], temperature [4,5], refractive index [6], and pressure [7] monitoring. The multiplexing capability is a unique feature of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor system. Techniques for multiplexing FBGs are wavelength division multiplexing [8], time division multiplexing [9], code division multiplexing [10], intensity and wavelength division multiplexing [11], and frequency modulated continuous wave multiplexing [12]. Based on these multipl