FFT's distributed fibre optic sensing technology is proven across several sectors. It's deployed as Aura Ai-X and Ai-XS. Ai-X isn’t just detection, it’s confidence in your security.
Pinpoint Accuracy: Deep Learning that learns for itself, delivering real-time, location-specific alerts and reducing excessive nuisance alarms.
Flexible Configuration: one system, tuned to each site, from airport perimeters to buried pipelines and subsea cable routes.
Seamless Integration: works alongside existing access control and surveillance infrastructure rather than replacing it.
Intrinsically Safe: no power in the field, suited equally to hazardous environments like oil and gas sites and defence, and high-density urban sites like airports and data centres.
Most competitors in this space specialise in one or two of these sectors. FFT's fibre optic sensing technology is built to work across all eight. FFT proves the same detection accuracy and the same low nuisance alarm rate in an oil and gas plant. That performance holds up just as well at an airport perimeter or a defence site.
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The risks differ from one industry to the next, from a runway to a pipeline to a prison wall. The technology protecting against them doesn't.
Perimeter security for the busiest, highest-traffic sites in aviation. Airports operate around the clock, across large and often irregular perimeters. A single missed intrusion can ground flights or trigger a security incident. FFT’s distributed fibre optic sensing covers runways, cargo areas and boundary fencing with real-time, location-specific alerts and a low nuisance alarm rate. Security teams can verify and respond fast, without slowing operations.
Physical layer security for the fence line your uptime depends on. Every minute of downtime carries a cost. A breached perimeter or damaged cable can take a facility offline entirely. To prevent that, FFT’s fibre optic sensing monitors data centre fencing and interconnect cable health continuously. It has one of the lowest nuisance alarm rates of any sensing technology. With this, security teams can stop chasing false alarms on a fence line that can run for kilometres.
Government-grade perimeter protection for defence and critical national infrastructure. Defence and government buyers evaluate technology against long procurement cycles, strict certification requirements and hard precedent, not marketing claims. FFT’s technology meets that bar, deployed under real operational conditions, backed by ISO 9001:2015 certification, Deep Learning event classification, and a track record with government partners worldwide. It also delivers the same real-time, location-specific alerts, with resilient perimeter coverage that holds up under sustained testing, not just isolated incidents.
Reliable perimeter and asset monitoring for power generation sites, from solar to nuclear. Energy sites are often remote, sprawling and exposed. This makes constant physical patrolling impractical, and traditional alarm systems prone to false positives. FFT’s sensing overcomes this, detecting intrusion and asset risk in real time across the full site boundary. It's intrinsically safe and requires no powered equipment in the field, so it holds up even where mains power is unreliable or unavailable.
Intrinsically safe sensing for hazardous, high-value pipeline and plant environments. Oil and gas sites combine flammable materials, remote pipeline routes and strict safety codes. This rules out powered sensors in many zones. That's why FFT’s fibre optic sensing protects perimeters and pipeline integrity without any electronics in the field, giving operators continuous coverage across process areas and pipeline corridors alike.
Perimeter and cable-route protection for the networks essential services run on. A single damaged or tapped cable can take down connectivity for entire regions. That's why telecommunications operators need continuous monitoring across long, often unattended cable routes. FFT’s distributed sensing meets this need. It turns a single cable into an acoustic sensor to protect the entire cable bundle, working along both land and subsea routes. This also gives operators risk mitigation of unauthorised access along corridors that are otherwise near impossible to patrol physically.
Perimeter security for rail, transit and transport infrastructure operators. Rail and transit networks span long corridors, depots and stations that are difficult to patrol manually. False alarms also disrupt schedules on these networks. FFT’s sensing solves both problems. It protects tracks, depots and transit corridors with rapid verification and a low nuisance alarm rate. This reduces the disruption that comes with investigating false alarms on live, timetabled networks. This includes rock fall and human interference along the line, as well as vandalism in rolling stock maintenance yards.
Perimeter security built for correctional facilities. False alarms carry a real operational cost, pulling staff away from other duties. A missed genuine attempt carries a far greater cost. FFT’s sensing addresses both risks. It separates genuine intrusion attempts from routine site activity such as vehicle movement or weather. It uses Deep Learning to classify events accurately along the full perimeter, day and night. This extends to detecting an individual climbing the perimeter fence, a common escape risk at prisons and detention centres.
The pattern is consistent across every incident: single points of failure and delayed verification. FFT’s case studies show what changes when one fibre optic sensing technology closes that gap, across aviation, oil and gas, and government sites alike.
Every industry above is protected by the same fibre optic sensing technology, Aura Ai-X and Ai-XS, plus the access-point protection, alarm monitoring and integrations FFT builds around it.
What industries does FFT protect?
FFT protects eight critical sectors worldwide: airports, data centres, defence, energy, oil and gas plants, telecommunications, transport and corrections. Every deployment runs on the same distributed fibre optic sensing technology, Aura Ai-X and Ai-XS, backed by ISO 9001:2015 certification and installations on six continents.
What makes FFT’s fibre optic intrusion detection different from traditional perimeter security?
While machine learning relies on manual extraction from humans, FFT's Deep Learning learns for itself, classifying events in real time rather than applying fixed rules. This delivers a high probability of detection combined with a low nuisance alarm rate, without relying on powered equipment in the field.
How does FFT reduce nuisance alarms compared to legacy systems?
FFT’s distributed fibre optic sensing transforms a single cable into a continuous acoustic sensor along its entire length, giving each event a precise location and classification. Combined with Deep Learning, this rapid verification separates genuine intrusion attempts from routine activity, cutting false alarms significantly.
FFT’s fibre security products support different perimeter types, site conditions, and operational requirements. For project enquiries, product guidance, or expert advice on fibre optic intrusion detection technologies, contact the FFT team to discuss the next step.
