 Welcome to JSA TV live the newsroom for data center and telecom professionals. I'm Barb Mitchell joining you today live from the floor of PTC 2023 Where we're you know at at PTC 23. It's a fantastic conference already Joining me is Mark England founder and CEO of Fiber Sense Mark. Thanks for joining us. How are you finding the conference? No, it's a morning but it's been four months and spoke last. Yeah, so far so good Different than this time last year. Yeah in a lot of ways, right? I think so Has it been busy for you or you very much so we're continuing conversations from our launch last year Okay, yeah, I want to first of all congratulate you I understand you Recently we're awarded with entrepreneur of the year. I just want to check Australia's piercee foundation, right? Thank you very much. It's pretty good for founding Fiber Sense. Yeah That was a great encouragement for a lot of years of moving through the startup process So yeah, very very pleased for that encouragement There's a lot of innovation drive in Australia and the US at the moment These sort of organizations where they get behind guys and girls that want to go and start businesses Which I highly encourage. Yeah, I was out there that are interested in it. It's definitely worth it What an amazing accomplishment and a just a testament to the work that you're doing. I I So curious about this speaking of the work you're doing and the impact you're making I understand that Fiber Sense recorded live an earthquake in Australia. Is that right? Yes? Yes, actually in New Zealand Oh in New Zealand. Okay. There was a couple that went through but yeah, we have a platform technology That converts optical fiber cables and cities and then subsea we talked about last year into continuous Sensors and in the case of earthquakes, that's a big revelation that we're able to take very sparse today inside moment is and turn them Across into a very very dense network. So when Fortunet enough to catch a 5.8 magnitude And that was very important precedent for us because it was a long-sight calibrated insistent seismometers and we were able to validate for the first time cleanly that Fiber cables can act as calibrated seismometers much much higher density So we can see things like earthquakes on a building basis for the first time By address That's got big implications more responding to Yeah, and I can tell you somebody who lives on the west coast of North America. They I'm thinking about these things often So that's so interesting And so next I wouldn't mind hearing a little bit about your relationship with Australia's national run broadband network Yes, the national broadband network. We announced just recently last year and That's a big precedent for us in Australia We're moving out with fiber partners to protect their critical infrastructure. So in the case of MVM their core network Nutrials underway at this point and we're very confident that that's going to go through successfully our whole Approach to this is that we deliver products into the marketplace and in the cities that works. So We go through a test process within the end We're going to check the performance and we expect that to go through That will be a big deal for carriers in Australia yeah, so What so I'm curious. There's so much that you've already said about, you know, the ways that you can help You know, whether it be something massive like detecting an earthquake or, you know, helping in local local Enterprise and communities, but we're what would you say is your the area that you are most Impact focused This has been the problem from the very beginning When you can convert a fiber cable into something that's capable of digitizing all objects and events There's not almost like an unlimited set of applications That you can dream up, but for companies like us it's so important that we focus and We've been focusing on critical infrastructure from the very beginning and We started in subsea announced last year protecting submarine cables and it was innovation there and we were able to insert ourselves under live traffic But in the terrestrial sense we're very much focused on protecting critical linear infrastructure That's things like telecom cables water pipes power cables That's sort of thing from things like excavators and network technicians doing stuff that we're supposed to be doing that type of thing So we're really focused on that We have a smart city frame we talked about last year as well That's accelerated dramatically So we have first vehicle tracking live On a per vehicle basis to require the cables, which is a very different way of tracking objects and events in cities We also have a water leak detection capability and a seismic capability But they come after Their pilots in a sense, but the main businesses infrastructure protection their qualified products that are going out at scale So you talked about focus, uh, so when you and I you know, I've been saying you know today It's always interesting I find being at ptc because it's january It's time for sort of like reset and recalibrate and sort of think of the year ahead What do you what are you most focused on when you think of it from that perspective? Because it's a lot what you're talking about. It's a lot. What what do you think you can focus on for the next six months? Say or 12 2022 was a big year of expansion for us We're now in 15 cities eight countries very very big print athlete We also added two new like caliber non-executive directors to the board. So we have um Chris Sharp from Digital Realty joined us last year and we also have uh, Mark so-called Ex-google executive infrastructure side both of the microns in the industry Mark's now with half this edge is their CTO but both of them render on our board new dimensions Let's say buyers reward capability or depth depth in our board So that's been a big add as we manage scale out now. So as we focused on asset protection our 23 is really about significantly increases 5x That requires a just a fun Right well you have your work cut out for you. Don't you? Yeah It's always great to to catch up with you Is there anything else that you want to make sure our our viewers sort of know that you're you're really thinking about No, I think that's it. We're always looking for five apartments We've got a lot of five great five apartments today Indians and candidates for that as we saw it In the us and europe What we render to these public partners is the ability to generate a new unregulated revenue source from those applications We've just discussed so we're always looking for that So is any interest in in carries out there for looking at a new model within their business? That's right. Okay Well good. So for those people like I keep saying not everyone's as lucky as we are to be We'll have to have made the long long journey to to iQIQI For those that aren't here that you aren't able to meet with on site. How can they connect with you? Our website. It's 5ersense.com Okay, it's all there This is development sales team always So 5ersense.com. Thank you mark. Thank you for joining us. It's always a pleasure to catch up Hopefully it's we don't have to wait a whole another year. Yeah To chat again Hopefully. Yeah. Yeah, so thank you and thank you viewers for tuning in to jsa tv Mahalo