Patent 7965909 was granted and assigned to Qinetiq Limited on June, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A fiber-optic surveillance system (10) includes a fiber-optic sensor (15) comprising a serial array (15) of fiber-optic point-sensors (16), successive point-sensors being linked by a distributed fiber-optic sensor (18). The system allows the location of intruder events along the sensor to be determined, and provides a reduction in the incidence of false-alarms compared to prior art systems.