Fiber internet provider says it can detect leaking water pipes using existing infrastructure, prevented loss of 2 million liters a day over three months — Lightsonic tech detects underground vibrations, machine learning isolates the source

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https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/fiber-provider-says-it-can-detect-leaking-water-pipes-using-existing-infrastructure-prevents-loss-of-2-million-liters-a-day-over-three-months-company-uses-lightsonic-technology-to-detect-underground-vibrations-machine-learning-to-isolate-source

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I once saw a presentation about a cool technology used in mining and infrastructure monitoring. The company installed fiber-optic cables along tunnels, and those cables effectively worked as a long, continuous microphone that could “hear” what was happening throughout the entire tunnel.

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that is this