Openreach fibre sensing nears ‘material scale’

Joe Purnell2026-10-19T15:45:00

Source: Southern Water

Openreach closing in on commercial fibre sensing, seeking to turn its huge vast estate into a distributed monitoring network capable of spotting water and gas leaks, and potentially opening a new revenue stream from existing infrastructure. European peers follow suit…

This article includes:

Themes: Artificial intelligence (AI); Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS); Fibre monetisation; Fibre sensing; Infrastructure monitoring; Network intelligence; Smart infrastructure; Utility monitoring.
Events: Network X.
People: Philippe Chanclou; Trevor Linney.
Geographic: France; Italy; London; Mediterranean; UK.
Organisations: Affinity Water; BT; Cadent; FiberCop; FiberSense; Lightsonic; National Institute of Geophysics & Volcanology; Ofwat; Openreach; Orange; Orange Business; Orange Innovation; Senstar; Southern Water; Sparkle; Transport for London.

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