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Fibre Optic Sensing Security Solutions

“Our integrated sensing solutions deliver both critical security and real time precision high-risk facilities require.” One distributed fibre optic sensing platform detects, locates and protects against physical threats across every critical infrastructure application, wherever a breach costs more than a business can afford to lose.
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Future Fibre Technologies protects perimeters, pipelines, data networks, power cables and subsea cables with the same proven fibre optic sensing solutions. Real-time, location-specific alerts identify a threat and pinpoint it, so security teams verify fast and respond with certainty.

From a Fence Line to a Subsea Cable

Every FFT deployment runs on the same distributed fibre optic sensing technology, turning a single fibre within a cable into a continuous acoustic sensor along its entire length. Deep learning classifies each disturbance and locates it to within five metres, reducing excessive nuisance alarms and delivering real-time, location-specific alerts wherever the cable runs. Because the sensing itself needs no power in the field, the same technology protects a two-hundred-metre fence line and a subsea cable route thousands of kilometres long.

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Perimeter Intrusion Detection

Fence-mounted and covert buried sensing detect a fence line being cut, climbed or lifted, or the ground being crawled, dug or driven over above a buried cable. Deep learning separates a genuine intrusion attempt from wind, wildlife or traffic, delivering real-time, location-specific alerts along the full perimeter.

Proof point: Deployed across airports, data centres, defence sites and correctional facilities worldwide, with a nuisance alarm rate low enough that security teams stop chasing false alerts on a fence line that can run for kilometres.
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Pipeline Protection

FFT's sensing detects third party interference, digging, tapping and tampering along a buried pipeline before a breach occurs, monitoring thousands of kilometres of pipeline in real time from above the pipe itself. Intrinsically safe, with no power in the field, it holds up in the hazardous zones a pipeline runs through.

Proof point:Protects critical process infrastructure for operators including Woodside's Karratha Gas Plant and Pluto LNG Project.
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Data Network Security

Using the dark fibres already inside a data network cable, FFT's sensing detects disturbance, intrusion attempts, tampering and data tapping along the network itself, pinpointing a physical layer threat to within five metres. It never intercepts or processes the data it protects.

Proof point: Suited equally to a single local network and a wide area network spanning thousands of kilometres, without adding a single point of failure.

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Power Cable Protection

Configurable sensitivity extends monitoring from a buried power cable itself into the surrounding soil, detecting an excavation strike, ground movement or overheating before it interrupts supply. The same distributed sensing covers the cable's entire length in real time.

Proof point: Closes the gap between accidental excavation and deliberate interference across an entire cable route, without powered equipment in the field.

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Subsea Cable Monitoring

FFT's sensing protects the terrestrial and nearshore sections of a subsea cable, from the cable landing station to the first repeater, the shallow-water stretch most exposed to anchor drag, trawl nets and deliberate sabotage. This is the stretch that carries the greatest share of risk to a route responsible for the vast majority of the world's international data traffic.

Proof point: Extends the same acoustic sensing used across FFT's other solutions to a cable route where a single strike can disrupt international connectivity.

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Why Fibre Optic Sensing?

Pinpoint Accuracy: Deep learning that learns for itself locates a disturbance to within five metres, delivering real-time, location-specific alerts and reducing excessive nuisance alarms.

Seamless Integration: works alongside existing access control, surveillance and network management systems rather than replacing them.

Flexible Configuration: one technology, tuned to each site, whether that's a fence line, a buried pipeline, a data network, a power cable route or a subsea cable landing.

Intrinsically Safe: no power in the field, suited equally to hazardous environments like oil and gas sites and to high-density urban sites like data centres and airports.

Proven Across Critical Infrastructure

Every deployment solves the same two problems: a blind spot in coverage, and a gap between detection and a verified response. FFT's case studies show what changes when one fibre optic sensing technology closes both, across aviation, oil and gas, and government sites alike.

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Products Built for High-Stakes Security

Aura Ai-X and Aura Ai-XS turn a single fibre within a cable into an acoustic sensor across every FFT solution, from a large-scale perimeter or a pipeline route to a mid-sized substation site. FFT Secure Point adds targeted protection around access points, gates and high-value equipment, and FFT CAMS brings every alarm from every site into one view.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Distributed fibre optic sensing turns a single fibre within a cable into a continuous sensor along its entire length. Deep learning detects and locates vibrations, intrusions and physical disturbances in real time, delivering location-specific alerts across perimeters, pipelines, data networks, power cables and subsea cables. The same technology needs no power in the field, and FFT's deployments are backed by ISO 9001:2015 certification across six continents.

While machine learning relies on manual extraction from humans, FFT's deep learning learns for itself, classifying each disturbance in real time rather than applying fixed rules. This delivers a high probability of detection alongside a low nuisance alarm rate, without relying on powered equipment in the field.

FFT protects eight critical sectors worldwide: airports, data centres, defence, energy, oil and gas, telecommunications, transport and corrections. Every deployment runs on the same distributed fibre optic sensing technology, with a track record that includes San Diego International Airport, Woodside's Karratha Gas Plant and Pluto LNG Project, and a multi-site US Federal Government perimeter upgrade.

Yes. FFT's sensing detects third party interference along thousands of kilometres of buried pipeline in real time, identifying digging, tapping or tampering before a breach occurs.

Aura Ai-X is built for large-scale, complex perimeters and long linear assets such as pipelines and cable routes. Aura Ai-XS brings the same distributed fibre optic sensing to smaller or mid-sized sites, including substations and telecommunications facilities.

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Specifiers, Operators, and Integrators evaluate perimeter, pipeline, network, power cable and subsea security across a single site or an entire estate. Tell us about your site and we'll recommend the right solution.

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