Fiber Optic Acoustic Sensing to Understand and Affect the Rhythm of the Cities: Proof-of-Concept to Create Data-Driven Urban Mobility Models García Martínez, María Luz Distributed acoustic sensing Urban mobility Patterns Optical fiber Massive sensing In the framework of massive sensing and smart sustainable cities, this work presents an urban distributed acoustic sensing testbed in the vicinity of the School of Technology and Telecommunication Engineering of the University of Granada, Spain. After positioning the sensing technology and the state of the art of similar existing approaches, the results of the monitoring experiment are described. Details of the sensing scenario, basic types of events automatically distinguishable, initial noise removal actions and frequency and signal complexity analysis are provided. The experiment, used as a proof-of-concept, shows the enormous potential of the sensing technology to generate data-driven urban mobility models. In order to support this fact, examples of preliminary density of traffic analysis and average speed calculation for buses, cars and pedestrians in the testbed’s neighborhood are exposed, together with the accidental presence of a local earthquake. Challenges, benefits and future research directions of this sensing technology are pointed out. 2023-09-26T08:37:23Z 2023-09-26T08:37:23Z 2023-06-26 journal article García, L.; Mota, S.; Titos, M.; Martínez, C.; Segura, J.C.; Benítez, C. Fiber Optic Acoustic Sensing to Understand and Affect the Rhythm of the Cities: Proof-of-Concept to Create Data-Driven Urban Mobility Models. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 3282. [https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15133282] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/84659 10.3390/rs15133282 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI