Openreach Trial Use of UK Broadband Network to Detect Gas and Water Leaks

Openreach to use fibre sensing to detect nearby water leaks

News Two pilot projects will see Openreach’s fibre network turn into real-time leak detection grid The UK’s largest fibre network operator, Openreach, has announced a pair of trials with water companies and tech partners, aiming to use their network to quickly identify costly leaks. In the first trial, in partnership with Arcadis, Thames Water, and Cadent, Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology from FiberSense will be used to pinpoint lea…

Openreach Trial Use of UK Broadband Network to Detect Gas and Water Leaks

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has joined with a number of major new partners, including Arcadis, Thames Water, Cadent, Affinity Water and Lightsonic, to trial a couple of different approaches for detecting mains water and gas leaks, which cleverly works by harnessing the operator’s existing fibre optic broadband network. The idea of using optical fibre cables, which transmit data using pulses of laser light, to detect and monitor nearby…