Anglian Water is trialling the use of fibre-optic cables to find hidden leaks in water mains.
Once the fibre optic sensor cable is fed into water pipes, the technology has the potential to continually monitor the pipeline for leaks and other events in the network by creating thousands of virtual sensors along the section of pipeline being monitored.
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