public industry manufacturing founded 1994 headquarters melbourne australia area served worldwide website www.fftsecurity.com future fibre technologies fft is a fiber optic sensing technologies company based in melbourne australia with its us head office in mountain view california middle east head office in dubai indian head office in new delhi and european head office in london . founded in 1994 future fibre technologies product line provides optical fiber intrusion detection systems for perimeters buried oil and gas pipelines and data communication networks . fft currently hold a number of patents for its fiber optic sensor and signal processing technologies and is recognized as a global tier one supplier in the global perimeter intrusion market . 1 fft is listed on the australian securities exchange asx fft . history edit fft was established in melbourne australia in 1994 as a research and development company . in 1998 in response to the demand for cost effective optical fiber sensors to protect large perimeters buried pipelines and physical network communication links fft developed technology that could pinpoint the location of intrusions over many miles of deployed optical fiber . the first fft products based on this new technology were commercialised in 2002 providing a fiber optic sensor intrusion detection system with the capacity to detect a perimeter intrusion to within 25 metres over up to 80 kilometres of deployed fiber optic cable on a single system . subsequently fft developed patented advanced recognition and discrimination arad technology which overcame the problem of nuisance alarms . advanced artificial intelligence technology uses signature recognition and signal processing software to identify the difference between an environmental event and an attempted intrusion reducing the effect of nuisance alarms . 2 this has led to hundreds of installations throughout the world with notable installations for unlimited technologies 3 dulles international airport 4 5 us military jfpass 6 and critical naval infrastructure and airport site perimeters . 7 this success has led to fft receiving notable industry awards such as the 2009 and 2010 governor of victoria export award 8 9 2009 and 2010 government security news best perimeter protection product award 10 and the 2010 prime minister s australian exporter of the year award . 11 references edit perimeter intrusion equipment fft earns tier 1 ranking git security . retrieved 2010 25 06 . artificial intelligence brings a new era in perimeter protection security airport technology . retrieved 2010 13 04 . future fibre technologies inc and unlimited technology inc announce a major perimeter security upgrade program for 24 pennsylvania based water utility sites forbes . retrieved 2010 21 04 . adesta selected to provide security systems for washington dulles international airport newswire . retrieved 2009 23 11 . dulles airport being fitted with fiber intrusion detection pro security zone . retrieved 2009 25 11 . future fibre technologies named exclusive provider of fence mounted perimeter security for jfpass airport technology . retrieved 2009 31 08 . perimeter protection critical sites git security . retrieved 2010 05 03 . winners of the governor of victoria export awards 2009 victorian government . retrieved 2009 13 10 . 2010 governor of victoria export award winners announced victorian government . retrieved 2010 08 10 . minister for information and communication technology visits future fibre technologies s headquarters in australia azooptics . retrieved 2009 11 11 . future fibre technologies winner of prime minister s australian exporter of the year australian government . retrieved 2009 12 07 . external links edit fft perimeter security home page retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title future fibre technologies & oldid 718888314 categories perimeter securitysecurity engineeringsecurity companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 may 2016 at 06 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view