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## The UJI participates in a European project to transform current telecommunications networks into global sensing systems

16/04/2025 |
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Optical communication networks are undergoing a profound transformation driven by the growing demand for connectivity and the need for real-time data. In recent years, advances in the field have highlighted the tremendous potential of combining high-speed optical communications with distributed sensing techniques. These techniques turn optical fibers into sensors capable of detecting and pinpointing disturbances—such as temperature and pressure changes, vibrations, or structural deformations—over distances of tens of kilometers.

The European project ECSTATIC, “[Engineering of combined sensor and telecommunications architectures for tectonic and infrastructure](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101189595) [characterization](http://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101189595)”, in which the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló is participating, studies the transformation of telecommunications networks into global sensing systems with applications in environmental monitoring, including earthquake and tsunami monitoring, infrastructure supervision and network anomaly detection. Achieving this objective requires a review of current communication techniques and the properties of transmitted signals, as well as the designs and architectures of existing optical systems.

To seize of this opportunity, ECSTATIC will develop innovative technologies based on optical methods such as interferometry and polarization applied to optical sensing, improving current range, sensitivity and localization capacity. To this end, the project will offer a wide range of solutions adaptable to different use cases, while guaranteeing the coexistence of the detection signal with real-time data traffic.

The proposed technologies will be combined with digital signal processing (DSP) and machine learning to optimize their performance. At the end of the project, in-depth knowledge will have been obtained on the capabilities, cost and compatibility of the developed systems with the telecommunications infrastructure, which will allow the standardization of fiber optic sensing in operational network environments to begin.

The team from the public university of Castelló is made up of Vicente Durán Bosch, researcher with the Optics Research Group (GROC) and the University Institute of New Imaging Technologies (INIT) and Jordi Navarro Alventosa, trainee researcher with the Optics Research Group, who will contribute to the characterization and implementation of the light sources (frequency combs) used by the distributed sensors.

The consortium, coordinated by Aston University (United Kingdom), includes the Italian universities of Padova and L'Aquila, the Spanish universities Jaume I of Castelló and Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), the University of West Attica (Greece), and Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden); the companies Coriant R&D GMBH (Germany), Organismos Tilepikoinonion Tis Ellados OTE AE (Greece), Telecom Italia Sparkle SPA (Italy), Network Rail Infrastructure Limited and Modus Research and Innovation Limited (United Kingdom), and Enlightra Sarl (Switzerland) as an associated partner, as well as the National Observatory of Athens (Greece).

The ECSTATIC (101189595) proposal is part of the HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01 call for proposals funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe Programme, within the HORIZON research and innovation actions on digital and emerging technologies for competitiveness and adaptation to the Green Deal.

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