Optical sensing in urban areas by deployed telecommunication fiber networks

The telecommunication fiber network already deployed in urban areas provides an added value to the optical asset itself, allowing a smart monitoring of our cities in a large scale. It is possible to use deployed PON infrastructures for structural vibration and local seismologic perturbations monitoring. On the other hand, surveillance of the embedded network and real-time safety diagnostic is also possible. The invited talk will present different experimental demonstrations to show the sensing performance by exploiting deployed fiber links, assessing the compatibility with the optical data telecom traffic at very high rate.