Education: every school a working observatory: its learning paths and standards. The loop, step by step: 1. The bell rings and the class heads outside. 2. Sensor, link, edge and console stand ready. 3. A front blows across the playground. 4. Students read the station and log the weather. 5. Each reading is stamped with time and place. 6. Readings travel to the school edge node. 7. Relays carry the packets without reading them. 8. Signatures are checked before any model runs. 9. The school dataset joins the regional map. 10. The edge releases confirmed results only. 11. The classroom screen draws the day’s weather. 12. The console shows the evidence with the alert. 13. The class compares its data with the network. 14. Sensors check that the response worked. 15. The whole chain is archived for audit. 16. The weather passes and the station keeps logging.
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Every school, a working observatory
School and campus observatories on real instruments, student data on the same grid as the professionals’, technician training on delivered systems, and learning paths from first principles to a commissioned site. Needs: weather and air at the school, data students can analyse, hands-on instruments, technician skills and materials for teachers.
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Desert dust
A worked story shows how a education deployment runs end to end, from the instruments and the radio to the edge, the console and the people who act on the result. Each story names its sources and the standards it relies on.
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Observation grid
A worked story shows how a education deployment runs end to end, from the instruments and the radio to the edge, the console and the people who act on the result. Each story names its sources and the standards it relies on.
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Horizon 2030
A worked story shows how a education deployment runs end to end, from the instruments and the radio to the edge, the console and the people who act on the result. Each story names its sources and the standards it relies on.
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Education: what must be measured
Weather and air at the school, data students can analyse, hands-on instruments, technician skills and materials for teachers. Each is measured by instruments sited to recognised practice, read by a base node that stamps, checks and signs every value. The quality flag and the provenance travel with the data, so a decision can be traced to the reading behind it.
Trust
Every node proves what it is
A node joins only after its hardware root of trust answers an attestation challenge. Keys stay in secure hardware, software arrives signed, and every reading carries a signature, so its origin can be checked by anyone downstream without asking us.
Time and place
Every reading carries when and where
Readings are stamped against a disciplined clock, from satellite time or a PTP grandmaster, together with the station position and its siting record. When time or position is degraded, the record says so instead of hiding it, and every analyst downstream sees the same warning.
Updates
Updates in rings, with rollback
Software and configuration reach the fleet in rings: a canary site first, then a few, then all, each ring gated on health and data completeness. A failed gate stops the wave and returns each node to its last good release, without a site visit.
Operations
Every node watched, every incident closed
The operations console shows every node with its state, its plan and its evidence. Alerts arrive with their data and a runbook; acknowledging one opens a work order, and an incident closes only when the cause is recorded and the fix verified.
Field service
One crew, from survey to repair
The same crew surveys, installs, commissions, calibrates and repairs, working from the site’s own record. Each visit updates it, so the next crew knows exactly what is there, when it was last checked and why it was changed. Spares and references are planned from that history.
Failure and recovery
When a node fails, the fleet knows first
When a node goes silent or a sensor drifts, the node buffers its data, fails over to a second link where one exists, and the alert carries the evidence a responder needs. Nothing is lost and nothing is counted twice.
What you get
Sensing as a Service
Observation networks designed, installed, operated and maintained for a monthly fee: weather, hydromet, air, seismic and environmental stations, with data delivered under a licence. Delivered as managed service and data licence, for agencies, utilities, municipalities, insurers, agribusiness. Scale: Global, multi-site, per-site pricing.
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Plan an education deployment
Tell us the sites, the measurements and the people who will use them. We reply with a design and a scope for education. An engineer replies with a survey proposal and a scope, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need, at your pace.
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01Learning paths
From first principles to a commissioned site.
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Academy
The principles of observation, the protocol and the lifecycle of a site.Start learning →
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Training and enablement
Operator, crew and engineer training on the systems you own.The training platform →
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Explainers
The systems in 3D, chapter by chapter, drawn to scale.Open the explainer →
02Standards
The standards cited on this site.
- EU Directive 2024/2881 (ambient air quality)
- CEN/TS 17660 (sensor systems)
- US EPA FEM/FRM reference methods
- Open school-mapping and daily-check tools of the programme
- GLOBE protocols (optional)
- FDSN station metadata and data formats
- National mesonet programme standards
- WMO-No. 8
03Explainer and stories
See it at work.
The industry in 3D, and field stories with the systems in each and the sources behind them.
ExplainerEducation, explained
Every school, a working observatory.Open the explainer →Desert and dustDust, heat and the solar field
In deserts, dust is weather. It reaches cities as air pollution, crosses oceans, and settles on solar panels: soiling cost global solar output at least…Read the story →End to endAn observation grid, end to end
An observation is not a reading. It is a reading with a place, a time, a calibration and a path that anyone can follow back. An observing grid is the…Read the story →OverviewWhat changes by 2030
Six shifts will reshape how the Earth is observed before the decade ends: networks that sense, models that forecast, foundation models that read imagery,…Read the story →04Terms
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