Thieves cut through the ceiling of a Memphis wholesale grocery and took about $150,000 in product. No fence was cut and no gate was forced, which makes the building shell the lesson for facility owners.
Excavators have struck Texas pipelines more than 4,800 times in 2026. Call-before-you-dig marking reduces strikes but cannot detect one in progress. Distributed fiber sensing along the line catches the dig in real time, before a strike becomes a leak.
A cross-border tunnel near San Diego ran 55 feet below the surface. Most perimeters watch the fence line and the air above it, not the ground beneath. Here is how buried fiber-optic detection closes that gap.
Bloomberg and Insurance Journal reported intruders scaling a fence, disabling cameras, and cutting copper at a Chilean solar farm. The lesson for remote energy sites: cameras alone don't fire fast enough. Detection at the fence and in the ground is the missing layer.
