The technology isn't new, but it is gaining new momentum as fiber deployments proliferate and as companies across a wide range of verticals look for smarter, more holistic ways to monitor and protect critical infrastructure — both fiber networks themselves, and other. The technology isn't new, but it is gaining new momentum as fiber deployments proliferate and as companies across a wide range of verticals look for smarter, more holistic ways to monitor and protect critical infrastructure — both fiber networks themselves, and other. Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) that in general is used to quantify strain, temperature, and pressure, evanescent wave sensors that identify chemical and biological interactions, interferometric sensors is used mainly for measuring vibrations and displacements and LSPR-Based Sensors is another type. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with optical fiber sensing (OFS) is transforming the capabilities of modern sensing systems, enabling smarter, more adaptive, and higher-performance solutions across diverse applications. This paper presents a comprehensive review of AI-enhanced OFS. Abstract: Distributed fiber optic sensors have gained a lot of attention due to their numerous monitoring applications in aerospace, defense, security, civil engineering, and energy monitoring over the last three decades. These examples demonstrate how useful data can be gathered from huge. “If 5G is the neural conduction of the digital age and AI the super brain, fiber sensing serves as the quietly growing peripheral nerves,” Chinese researchers wrote in a paper on fiber sensing published last month in IEEE ComSoc Technology News. In 2023, researchers turned submarine cables into earthquake warning systems and gave electric vehicles “optical nerves” to prevent battery failures.
