Realising An Innovative Sensing Opportunity for Telecoms Fibre Optic Infrastructure Owners

分布式光纤声学和振动传感技术已经证明了其在电信行业的价值-它通常用于帮助定位受损电缆，检测电缆的外部威胁（如挖掘）。此外，骨干电缆中的暗光纤经常被第三方租用和利用，用于各种不同的目的-例如交通传感，管道威胁监测，地震监测等等，更多。在所有这些情况下，（例如交通感测）被绑定到一组感测硬件和一个独立的分析服务器-所服务的应用程序被导向消费者，用于附加或替代应用程序的任何数据都被丢弃。如今，电信运营商将无法从道路交通光纤租赁商收集的任何电信卫生数据中获益，反之亦然。该项目将开发一种软件工具原型，用于并行服务多个客户，从单个原始丰富的数据流中解读有价值的传感内容。为此，我们利用了我们的关键创新，这是一种处理此类设备所呈现的大规模数据速率的机制，允许多个应用程序并行运行，并将数据延长数月以实现价值。在这样做的过程中，我们为基础设施所有者创造了一个赚取收入的机会。

Distributed Fibre Optic acoustic & vibration sensing has demonstrated its worth to the telecoms industry - it is often used to help locate damaged cables, detect external threats to cable (such as excavation) . Additionally dark fibres in backbone cables are regularly rented and exploited by third parties for a variety of separate purposes - such as traffic sensing, pipeline threat monitoring, earth quake monitoring and much, much more.In all these cases a single application (e.g. traffic sensing) is tied to a single set of sensing hardware and a stand alone analytics server - served applications are direct to the consumer any data for additional or alternative applications is discarded. Today the telecoms owner will not benefit from any telecoms hygiene data picked up by a road traffic fibre renter- and vice versa.This project will prototype a software tool for serving multiple clients in parallel valuable interpreted sensing content from single raw, rich datastreams . To do this, we exploit our key innovation which is a mechanism to handle the massive data rates that such devices present allowing multiple applications to be run in parallel and extended months of data to present value. In doing this we create a revenue earning opportunity for the infrastructure owner.