Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Urban Monitoring: Coverage Thresholds and Percolation (opens in new tab)

Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) enables the repurposing of existing fiber-optic networks as ultra-dense, long-range seismic arrays for urban monitoring. However, constraints imposed by real-world fiber infrastructure topology and components limit its use for city-scale applications. Recent technological developments have paved the way for short-range, on-chip DAS. Assuming their availability, and based on a Graph Theory framework, we show tha...