NTT and NEC use vibrating optic fibres to figure out if there's snow on the road

Japanese tech giant NTT has shown off some tech tricks it hopes will help alleviate the shortage of workers created by the nation’s ageing population, and looming regulations that restrict weekly working hours. One of NTT’s experiments relies on using optic fibre that’s already in the ground as part of comms networks as a …

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OK, I'll say it

They're watching to see if the cables start shivering?