SmartScape: Optical Fibre Sening in Dublin City

SmartScape uses a technology called Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) to turn existing fibre-optic cables into city-wide sensors. By analysing vibrations detected along the fibre, the project can build a picture of traffic, infrastructure and environmental activity across Dublin without installing new equipment.

The project is co-funded by the CONNECT Research Ireland centre for future networks (Trinity College Dublin team) and the iCRAG Research Ireland centre for Applied Geosciences (Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies team). The project is supported by Dublin City Council and the Asiera (formally HEAnet). For the first time this project brings Irish geoscientists and telecommunications engineers together, to tackle urban monitoring and detection challenges in a local authority.