Acoustic-to-hyper-spectral: real-time perimeter intrusion detection system monitoring through learnable filters and...

This paper presents an integrated distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system with artificial intelligence to provide real-time system monitoring for fence perimeter and buried system applications. The DAS system is a Rayleigh backscatter based fibre optic sensing system that has been deployed in two real-world, commercial applications to detect acoustic wave propagation and scattering along perimeter lines, and classify intrusions accurately. What we believe to be three novel signal processing methods are proposed to train filters for automatically selecting frequency bands from the power spectrum and generating hyper-spectral images from the data gathered by the DAS system without expert knowledge. The hyper-spectral images are analyzed by a neural network based object detection model. The system achieves 81.8% accuracy on a fence perimeter installation and 60.4% accuracy on a buried system application in detecting and classifying various intrusion events. The evaluation interval of the integrated DAS system framework between event sensing and detection does not exceed 5 s.