Integrated ice protection with prognostics and health management

A system comprising:

• a sensor array configured to be installed in a protected zone within proximity of heating equipment on a surface of an aircraft structure and in a nonprotected zone on the surface of the aircraft to monitor runback of melted ice, wherein the runback zone is a region behind the aircraft structure where melt ice will runback during flight and wherein sensors in the runback zone are connected by fiber optic cables to sensors in the protected zone;
• a controller coupled to the sensor array configured to:
• read signals from each sensor of the sensor array installed on a surface of a structure or equipment, wherein each sensor is a fiber optic sensor;
• generate a map based on reading the signal from each sensor, wherein the map monitors the surface and a condition of the surface detected by each sensor;
• determine at least one of an abnormal condition or a failure based at least in part on reading the signal from each sensor;
• and
• adjust power control for the heating equipment based on information from sensors in the non-protected run-back zone.