Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Mechanical Engineering 2328-4110 4 7 2016 12 17 Design of the Control System for the Opening of the Access Chambers for Fiber Optic Networks 275 279 EN Patrik Šarga Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Letná 9, 042 00 Košice, Slovak republic Marek Andrejko AJME2016479 10.12691/ajme-4-7-9 2016 9 17 2016 10 29 2016 12 15 The article deals with the design of a system that would allow to control the opening of the access chambers for fiber optic networks. The absence of metallic elements in the optical fiber does not allow the usage of conventional sensors working on metallic element. This led to proposition of the control system that operates on the principle of signal changes in the optical fiber caused by bending.