Before you specify fibre sensing

Use this worksheet before requesting proposals or agreeing a trial. Write what is known and mark what still needs evidence. It is a discussion aid, not an engineering specification or acceptance standard.

1. Define the decision

Asset or application:

Operating problem and consequence:

Decision required, owner and deadline:

2. Describe what useful information means

Event or condition to detect or measure:

Required location, timing and verification:

Who receives the information and what action follows:

3. Establish the starting point

Known fibre route, access and survey status:

Installation, power, communications and interface constraints:

Unverified assumptions and who will resolve them:

4. Compare the full scope

• Equipment, software and licence rights are described.
• Fibre, site work and access responsibilities are stated.
• Integration, commissioning and training are included or explicitly excluded.
• Recurring support costs and customer operating tasks are recorded.
• Unpriced dependencies remain visible as unknowns.

5. Agree the evidence

Representative target events and ordinary conditions:

Acceptance criteria, evidence record and decision authority:

Known limitations and treatment of incomplete results:

6. Choose the next action

Next step: clarify the brief / survey / compare proposals / trial / review evidence

Named owner and decision date:

Need help turning these answers into a useful supplier brief or trial plan? Contact Robin Wilding-Webb at robin@sentariintel.com with a short, non-confidential project outline.

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