1 Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology employed to tackle overhead power line theft CASE STUDY THE SCENARIO Bandweaver’s Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) Horizon technology was used as an Overhead Distribution Line Theft and Tampering Prevention System for EDESUR at a substation in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Tampering and the theft of materials on electrical distribution and transmission lines is a major problem for utilities worldwide in both urban and rural areas. Electricity theft and other non-technical losses now total over $96 billion a year. This results in higher energy prices for customers and often necessitates costly government subsidies. CLIENT REQUIREMENTS EDESUR was interested to investigate how fiber optic sensing could pro

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