Kazakhstan-Russian Fund invests in Moscow laser technology

In its inaugural deal, the new Kazakhstan-Russian Fund of Nanotechnologies has bought into LaserSolutions, a Moscow-based developer of fiber optics monitoring solutions.

In its inaugural deal, the new Kazakhstan-Russian Fund of Nanotechnologies (KRFN) has bought into LaserSolutions, a Moscow-based company, reported Kursiv.kz, a Russian-language news website in Kazakhstan. LaserSolutions is a sizable player in the Russian and former USSR markets with 20 years of experience in commercializing distributed fiber optics monitoring solutions for extended infrastructure projects. According to the Fund, LaserSolutions? technology is a cut above most existing ones. Particularly, it is said to enable the simultaneous measuring of strain, pressure and temperature at a 130km long section with a high resolution of up to 50 centimeters. The new technology is believed to have wide applications, from oil and gas pipelines and storage to transport infrastructure, including bridges, tunnels, overpasses and other railroad and highway infrastructure, to energy facilities, including hydroelectric and nuclear power stations and power transmission lines, to monitoring of slopes, dikes and levees for possible landslides, torrents or seismic activity...