[pbnjay]

Are you in this industry? Where could I learn more about #2? Sounds like something up my alley...

[athollywood]

I am. Google "fiber optic DAS" and you will find quite a lot.

http://www.aogr.com/magazine/cover-story/fiber-optic-sensors...

[pbnjay]

Yeah I found a few articles but not a whole lot of specifics. You're suggesting something like this box? http://www.optasense.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/FiberOpt...

I feel like it'd be really hard to break into this field without some data to play with. Catch-22...

If you have access/desire to share some data like this I'd love to chat more (email in bio). Sounds like an interesting problem.

[athollywood]

All of our data is proprietary unfortunately. This leads to another start up idea: a data consortium company for this type of work. I don't think we would mind giving the data up if there was a legitimate way to do so and if there was some benefit for us (I.e. advancing the rate of progress in this field).

[pbnjay]

Interesting. I'm actually part of a agricultural genomics data consortium with similar concept (companies contribute $$ and data in exchange for licensing rights to research results).

[tacon]

@athollywood Are you available for offline discussions? Maybe you could put some contact info in the public section of your profile. Feel free to email me: [e-mail]