The Smart Photonic Sleeve is a steel sleeve including optical sensors. Together with an intelligent interrogator hardware and smart data analytics algorithms it offers actionable information about rotating equipment. Including load, temperature, their distributions, health and performance. The product uses optical sensors with advantages like; EMI and explosive safe, use of one optical wire, long distances sensing, small integration footprint and suited for any environment. The sleeve can be obtained seperately and as an end-to-end solution including visualization on a dashboard.