SENSING NET targets to enhance the value of the already deployed optical fiber infrastructure for telecommunications by introducing fiber sensing technologies to explore novel potential applications, assuring additional revenues for networking-service providers, fiber network owners and operators by developing new promising applications and services.
The alternative usage of fiber networks can include not only the control and supervision of the telecom infrastructure integrity, but also the distributed diagnostics and surveillance in smart city scenarios, the monitoring of traffic and facility safety in railways and motorways; the leak detection in pipelines; the detection of large breaches and damages in civil structures. SENSING NET will exploit TLC-compatible sensing strategies to provide a real time, pervasive monitoring of mechanical, thermal and electrical phenomena. This sensing strategy will be performed both considering already deployed fiber links and newly installed fibers associated to utilities networks.
The project outcomes could support institutional decision makers in fields ranging from the civilian to the environmental protection, for the prompt detection of structural faults, and hazards.
SENSING NET is part of Spoke 1 – Pervasive and Photonic Network Technologies and Infrastructures
Project PI: Francesco Carpentieri
- Examination of industry standards for access and metro/regional networks;
- Identification of requirements for signal power, optical losses, and wavelength bands;
- Collaboration on potential scenarios, including interferometric sensing in PON networks;
- Deployment of interferometric and DSP-based sensing techniques for building and earth hazard monitoring.
Optical Sensing using TLC Fiber Networks (WP3):
- Analysis of PON infrastructure peculiarities;
- Identification of a field trial for testing sensing solutions in building structures and fiber health.
WP4
- cascade call- closed call, under evaluation by CNR;
- Issued RDA for instrumentation: supplier is Cohaerentia;
- Delivered SCIENTIFIC REPORT BY 25/03/2024;
- Launched the Request for Proposal for Direct Procurement on 7/06 in order to purchase instrumentation useful for the progress of the project.
- WP2: the first DL was released. Study on coexistence with GPON standard and OPEN FIBER PON infrastructure. Preliminary analyses and discussions on specifications and requirements for both the detection technologies and for the optical network infrastructure;
- WP3: It has been identified a specific PON connecting the POP of Opera with several housing units in San Donato Milanese, characterized by a distance of around 12.5 km. It has been organized in December the first survey in POP of OF and in the building where should be installed FOS technology. A second inspection was organised with the building administration. As a preliminary result, it has been proposed the C band as a working window for sensing signal wavelenght within GPON architecture.
- WP4: cascade call- call closed, is being evaluated by CNR.
Paper:
Collaboration on potential scenarios, including interferometric detection in PON networks; Implementation of interferometric and DSP-based detection techniques for monitoring buildings and earth hazards; Identification of a field trial to test detection solutions in building structures and fibre health.
- Publications
Accomplished 5 / Expected 10 - Joint Publications
Accomplished 1 / Expected 5 - Talks/Dissemination events
Accomplished 3 / Expected 5 - Demo/PoC
Accomplished 0 / Expected 3 - Project Meetings
Accomplished 18 / Expected 25
- MS 1.1 - Definition of the scientific content of the cascade call (due date: M03) - Accomplished
- MS 2.1 - Standardization of application and coexistence of FOS technologies signals and WDM data signal in already deployed TLC infrastructure (due date: M36) - Expected
- MS 3.1 - Development and validation of FOS technology for urban infrastructure surveillance and road monitoring (due date: M36) - Expected
- MS 4.2 - Development and validation of FOS technologies for earthquake detection (due date: M36) - Expected
Researchers involved: Francesco Carpentieri (Open Fiber), Marianna Hovsepyan (Open Fiber), Pierpaolo Boffi (PoliMI).
Collaboration proposals:
SENSING NET project concerns the application of particular optical sensing solutions (for example interferometric architectures) to the optical fiber infrastructure for telecommunications and to the networks supporting utilities. For this reason, SENSING NET represents a project of strong synergy with RIGOLETTO.
In particular, the research proposed in the focused SENSING NET project are complementary to the activities relating to telemetry foreseen in WP4 of the structural project.
For any proposal of collaboration within the project please contact the project PI.