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Training and enablement/
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.
Plan with usTechnologiesAreas · 5 Technologies · 127 Industries · 3
At a glance
Operators
Run the grid, read the evidence. The page on operators sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Operator, crew and engineer training on the systems you own, commissioning taught on your own site, enablement for integrators and suppliers, and learning paths from first principles to a commissioned site, each step recorded.
The problem
Your team runs it. We make sure they can
The products and services of Training and enablement start with operators, field crews, engineers and partner enablement. Operator, crew and engineer training on the systems you own, commissioning taught on your own site, enablement for integrators and suppliers, and learning paths from first principles to a commissioned site, each step recorded.
Components
- Pole-mounted edge gateway node
- Automatic weather station (AWS) to WMO siting practice
- Particulate monitoring station and sensor node
- Seismometer vault station (broadband, solar powered, GNSS-timed)
- LoRaWAN gateway, endpoint and soil probe
- Deployable field shelter with environmental control
- Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment
- Operations console with a video wall
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
- Learning paths
- Partner enablement
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 Training and enablementSee Field crewsTraining and enablement · Areas
Your team runs it. We make sure they can
The products and services of Training and enablement start with operators, field crews, engineers and partner enablement. Operator, crew and engineer training on the systems you own, commissioning taught on your own site, enablement for integrators and suppliers, and learning paths from first principles to a commissioned site, each step recorded.
Area · Operators
Operators
Run the grid, read the evidence. The page on operators sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Operator, crew and engineer training on the systems you own, commissioning taught on your own site, enablement for integrators and suppliers, and learning paths from first principles to a commissioned site, each step recorded.
See OperatorsArea · Learning paths
Learning paths
From first principles to a commissioned site. The page on learning paths sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Operator, crew and engineer training on the systems you own, commissioning taught on your own site, enablement for integrators and suppliers, and learning paths from first principles to a commissioned site, each step recorded.
See Learning pathsArea · Engineers
Engineers
Design, integration and the protocol in depth. The page on engineers sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Operator, crew and engineer training on the systems you own, commissioning taught on your own site, enablement for integrators and suppliers, and learning paths from first principles to a commissioned site, each step recorded.
See EngineersArea · Partner enablement
Partner enablement
Integrators and suppliers, on one practice. The page on partner enablement sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Operator, crew and engineer training on the systems you own, commissioning taught on your own site, enablement for integrators and suppliers, and learning paths from first principles to a commissioned site, each step recorded.
See Partner enablementTime and place
When and where, on every record
On a network for Training and enablement, 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 Training and enablement, never hidden, and every user downstream sees the same flag.
Area · Field crews
Field crews
Install, commission and maintain, on site. The page on field crews sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Operator, crew and engineer training on the systems you own, commissioning taught on your own site, enablement for integrators and suppliers, and learning paths from first principles to a commissioned site, each step recorded.
See Field crewsTrust
Proved before it is trusted
Every node on a network for Training and enablement 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 Training and enablement can be traced to it.
Evidence
Standards an auditor can check
An auditor of a network for Training and enablement finds metadata to WIGOS and ISO 19115, observations through OGC SensorThings and exchange through WIS 2.0. Releases, calibrations and admissions for Training and enablement are kept as signed records, so every claim can be checked against the standard behind it.
Failure and recovery
When a node fails, the fleet knows first
When something fails on a network for Training and enablement, the fleet knows first: the node buffers its data and fails over to a second link where one exists. The alert for Training and enablement carries what a responder needs to act, and the record keeps every value once, with nothing lost.
Field service
One crew, from survey to repair
For Training and enablement, one crew carries a site from survey to repair: it installs, commissions and calibrates from the site’s own record. The record grows with every visit to a site for Training and enablement, and spares and references are planned from what it shows.
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 Training and enablement, free of charge. Under contract, Nexus Observatory Inc. builds and runs the sites, fleets and data tiers for Training and enablement, priced per site and per fleet, with service levels written as numbers.
Next step
Training and enablement, planned with you
Tell us which products and services of Training and enablement you need, for which sites and by when. An engineer replies with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for Training and enablement, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need.
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Training and enablement
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
ISIC section · ISIC J Information and communicationUse case State or provincial mesonet siteUse case Citizen seismology nodeUse case Northern civil observatoryExplainers
Explainer · Education Education — SectorsUniversity mesonets, school weather, air and seismic stations, classroom datasets and campus private 5G testbeds: an interactive explainer with the method behind every number.Explainer · Government and public safety Government and public safetyWildfire cameras on real terrain, GBON station density, street-flood alert thresholds, CAP alerting with the authority in the loop and the radio horizon of a deployable cell.Platform Training and enablementSystems outlive the people who installed themPlatform Field servicesSites fail between contractorsStories
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 · End to end An observation grid, end to endAn 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…Places and networks
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.Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Arctic stationA self-powered station on the ice: a microgrid, a low-orbit satellite terminal, a weather station, a GNSS monument and an edge node that holds data through the polar night.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.Network scene · IoT · LoRaWAN LoRaWAN across a farm and villageSoil probes in every field report to gateways on the water tower and the church spire; the adaptive data rate, time on air and duty cycle are computed from the link budget.Network scene · RAN · 5G NR Radio access in a city centreA three-sector macro site on the tallest roof and small cells on street poles: their coverage, interference and beams computed over the streets and buildings of the drawing.Heritage observatories
Heritage observatory · about 450 km · 2002 GRACETwo satellites chasing each other 220 kilometres apart, measuring their separation to a fraction of the width of a hair, so as to weigh the ice sheets, aquifers and oceans from…Heritage observatory · Chile · 2011 Atacama Large MillimeterSixty-six antennas on a 5,000-metre desert plateau in Chile, linked by a supercomputer into one telescope that sees cold gas and dust at millimetre wavelengths.Interactive tools
Interactive tool · Plan a site Field Deployment StudioTerrain, devices, coverage, viewshed, power and the best spot for a station, then a deployment request with the plan attached.01Areas
Training and enablement, area by area.
Choose an area for its systems, standards, the industries it serves and how we deliver it.
01Operators
Run the grid, read the evidence. Open the area →02Field crews
Install, commission and maintain, on site. Open the area →03Engineers
Design, integration and the protocol in depth. Open the area →04Partner enablement
Integrators and suppliers, on one practice. Open the area →05Learning paths
From first principles to a commissioned site. 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
- Academy paths
- Guides and glossary
Enterprise, on this site
- Operator and technician training
- On-site enablement
03On this site
Where to go next.
Training and enablementTechnologies
The layered map of what we build with. Open →Training and enablementArchitecture
Layers, functions and evidence. Open →Training and enablementIndustries
The industry sites built on this platform. Open →Training and enablementResources
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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