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AreasEach area of the platform has its own page: the systems in it, the standards it is drawn against, the industries it serves and how we deliver it.
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At a glance
Lab testing
Environmental, RF, power and EMC, on the bench. The page on lab testing sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it.
The problem
Tested against the specification. State on record
The products and services of Test and qualification start with lab testing, field trials, conformance and interoperability events. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it.
Components
- Pole-mounted edge gateway node
- Automatic weather station (AWS) to WMO siting practice
- Particulate monitoring station and sensor node
- Compact X-band weather radar / ISAC sensing node on a lattice tower top
- Street small-cell pole with an air-quality node
- “AI tower in a box”
- Hardware security module, 1U, in an edge rack
- Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment
Interfaces
- Instruments
- SDI-12 · RS-485 / Modbus RTU · 4–20 mA
- Radio
- Ethernet · LTE-M / NB-IoT · LoRaWAN
- Time and position
- GNSS 1PPS
- Security
- TPM 2.0
- Publishing
- MQTT
Where it works
- Evidence
- Interoperability events
In the story below
- The system, part by part
- Assembly
- Installation
- Deployment
- Connections
- Operation
- Failure and recovery
- Scale and federation
- What you get
Scenes · 13
Next steps
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Test and qualificationSee Field trialsTest and qualification · Areas
Tested against the specification. State on record
The products and services of Test and qualification start with lab testing, field trials, conformance and interoperability events. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it.
Area · Lab testing
Lab testing
Environmental, RF, power and EMC, on the bench. The page on lab testing sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it.
See Lab testingArea · Evidence
Evidence
Every result, signed and kept. The page on evidence sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it.
See EvidenceArea · Conformance
Conformance
Run the protocol suite, publish the result. The page on conformance sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it.
See ConformanceArea · Interoperability events
Interoperability events
Many suppliers, one test plan. The page on interoperability events sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it.
See Interoperability eventsTime and place
When and where, on every record
On a network for Test and qualification, when and where are part of every record: a disciplined clock, from satellite time or a PTP grandmaster, and the station’s surveyed position. A degraded clock or position is written into the record for Test and qualification, never hidden, and every user downstream sees the same flag.
Area · Field trials
Field trials
On a real site, against a written plan. The page on field trials sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it.
See Field trialsTrust
Proved before it is trusted
Every node on a network for Test and qualification proves what it is before it is admitted, by answering an attestation challenge from its hardware root of trust. From then on, its keys stay in secure hardware, its software is signed, and every record it makes for Test and qualification can be traced to it.
Evidence
Standards an auditor can check
An auditor of a network for Test and qualification finds metadata to WIGOS and ISO 19115, observations through OGC SensorThings and exchange through WIS 2.0. Releases, calibrations and admissions for Test and qualification are kept as signed records, so every claim can be checked against the standard behind it.
Operations
Every node watched, every incident closed
Operators of a network for Test and qualification see every node at once: its state, its plan and its evidence, in one console. Each alert for Test and qualification arrives with its data and a runbook, and its incident stays open until the operator records the cause and verifies the fix.
Failure and recovery
When a node fails, the fleet knows first
When something fails on a network for Test and qualification, the fleet knows first: the node buffers its data and fails over to a second link where one exists. The alert for Test and qualification carries what a responder needs to act, and the record keeps every value once, with nothing lost.
What you get
Open where it can be, contracted where it must be
Anyone can use and build on the protocol, the methods and the open data behind Test and qualification, free of charge. Under contract, Nexus Observatory Inc. builds and runs the sites, fleets and data tiers for Test and qualification, priced per site and per fleet, with service levels written as numbers.
Next step
Test and qualification, planned with you
Tell us which products and services of Test and qualification you need, for which sites and by when. An engineer replies with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for Test and qualification, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need.
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Test and qualification
More presentations
See it from every side.
Each opens as a full-screen presentation: deeper pages on the same subject, explainers, stories, guided tours of the places, network scenes and the observatories that came before.
All presentationsIn depth
Use case Northern civil observatoryUse case Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weatherUse case GBON gap-filler stationSector IndustrialExplainers
Explainer · Scientific Scientific, explainedExplainer · Industrial IndustrialBlast vibration at the pit, fire weather at the grid edge, methane at the fenceline and tailings movement from GNSS.Platform Test and qualificationClaims are easy; evidence is rarePlatform ConnectivityPublic networks were not built for this siteStories
Story · Overview What changes by 2030Six shifts will reshape how the Earth is observed before the decade ends: networks that sense, models that forecast, foundation models that read imagery,…Story · Orbit Orbits as infrastructureLow orbits are fast and crowded, high orbits slow and spacious. Every choice of altitude is a trade between delay, footprint and how long the satellite…Story · Data provenance chain From sensor to recordA published observation should carry its own history: which instrument made it, when, under which calibration, and every step since. The web already has a…Places and networks
Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Orbit viewGround tracks of a sun-synchronous imager and three shells of a broadband constellation, computed from their orbits over a rotating Earth.Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Ground stationAn 11 m class antenna and its companions on a fenced pad, with edge compute that turns each pass into catalogued products before the next one.Network scene · Private 5G · Port Private 5G at a container portSmall cells on the yard lighting masts and a sector site on the operations building serve remote-controlled cranes and trucks among steel container stacks.Network scene · Private 5G · Mining Private 5G in an open-pit mineA private network for haul trucks, drills and slope radar: a mast on the rim, a cell in the pit, the core at the plant, and coverage computed over the benches themselves.Heritage observatories
Heritage observatory · Low Earth orbit · 1990 Hubble Space TelescopeA 2.4-metre telescope above the atmosphere, launched in 1990 with a mirror ground to the wrong shape and fixed three years later by astronauts.Heritage observatory · Low Earth orbit (launched from Cape Canaveral) · 1960 TIROS-1On 1 April 1960 a 120-kilogram drum with two television cameras was launched from Cape Canaveral and sent back the first pictures of clouds from space.Interactive tools
Interactive tool · Configure a station Station BuilderConfigure a station part by part in 3D, check the rules as you go and request a quote for the assembly.01Areas
Test and qualification, area by area.
Choose an area for its systems, standards, the industries it serves and how we deliver it.
01Lab testing
Environmental, RF, power and EMC, on the bench. Open the area →02Field trials
On a real site, against a written plan. Open the area →03Conformance
Run the protocol suite, publish the result. Open the area →04Interoperability events
Many suppliers, one test plan. Open the area →05Evidence
Every result, signed and kept. Open the area →02Open and enterprise
Open by default. Enterprise by contract.
The open layer lives on the main site, free to use and build on. Enterprise services are delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc.
Open, on the main site
- Conformance tool
- Test plans
Enterprise, on this site
- Device and software qualification
- Works-with programme
- Field trial management
03On this site
Where to go next.
Test and qualificationTechnologies
The layered map of what we build with. Open →Test and qualificationArchitecture
Layers, functions and evidence. Open →Test and qualificationIndustries
The industry sites built on this platform. Open →Test and qualificationResources
Explainer, stories, specification and forms. Open →Bring us the site.
We bring the survey, the design and the crew. The form names who receives your details.
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