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Communities and rural
Connectivity and sensing, locally owned.

Community networks, Indigenous and remote connectivity, interim public-safety broadband and remote microgrids.

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Scenarios
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Templates
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Communities and rural: on the ground

  1. Communities and rural

    Connectivity and sensing, locally owned.

    Community networks, Indigenous and remote connectivity, interim public-safety broadband and remote microgrids.

  2. Arctic station

    Arctic station

    A station on the ice, self-powered and connected only by satellite.

  3. Arctic station

    Arctic station

    The microgrid carries the station through the polar night. Solar in summer, storage and a generator through the polar night; the edge budgets every watt.

  4. Arctic station

    Arctic station

    The low-orbit terminal is the only backhaul. A flat-panel terminal to a low-orbit constellation: the station’s only backhaul.

  5. Arctic station

    Arctic station

    A geodetic monument measures ice and crustal motion. A geodetic monument for ice and crustal motion, and the station’s time.

  6. Proof

    What buyers ask to see.

    • Coverage maps in the regulator’s format
    • Speed-test evidence
    • Uptime
    • Local ownership and benefit agreements
    • Indigenous data-governance alignment
    • Licence status

01How it works

A station joins, then the work is shared.

One station runs the protocol from first contact to publishing; the graph beside it shows how this sector’s use cases share kit and products.

02Deployment scenarios

How the grid is deployed here.

From the sector research, each with the observatory template that serves it where one exists.

Connectivity, Data & licensing

Indigenous-owned community cellular

Unused 800 MHz and 1900 MHz spectrum through an access-licensing framework with a priority window for Indigenous applicants.Connectivity

Last-mile fixed wireless with community anchor sensing

Sub-grantee partnerships where observatory nodes co-host at schools, clinics and fire halls.Connectivity

Rural and cross-border 5G corridors and smart communities

Co-funded cross-border sections under European digital infrastructure calls.Protocol & Grid, Hardware & power

Remote microgrid, sensing and connectivity bundle

Solar-plus-storage telemetry with a weather station and a small cell in a diesel-reduction project.Protocol & Grid, Connectivity

Interim public-safety broadband where no national network exists

Private LTE or 5G for fire and medical services in territories without a national public-safety network.

03Proof

What buyers ask to see.

The evidence a procurement in this sector asks for, from the sector research. Each item is produced by the grid as a record, not written up afterwards.

  • Coverage maps in the regulator’s format
  • Speed-test evidence
  • Uptime
  • Local ownership and benefit agreements
  • Indigenous data-governance alignment
  • Licence status

04Participation

Where communities can host the grid.

Community

Join the community

One account for every community, platform and the NXS Observatory app.Open data

Use the open networks

Public observing networks on their own terms, ready to reuse.Hosting

Host a station

Tell us about a site; we bring the survey, the design and the crew.

05Lines

The lines that serve it.

The enterprise lines that carry the scenarios above, ranked by how many name their work.

Platform

Connectivity

Private 5G, AI-RAN and orbit, on site.Platform

Protocol & Grid

Your grid, on the open protocol.Platform

Hardware & power

Built for the site, not the lab.Platform

Sensors & instruments

Measurements that carry their own proof.Platform

Data & licensing

Grid data, licensed for your use.

06Search terms and open work

How the sector names the problem.

The terms buyers and programmes use, and open projects in the space, named as factual references only. Naming a project is not an endorsement or a relationship.

Search terms community network Indigenous-owned ISP Universal Broadband Fund BEAD sub-grantee fixed wireless access CBRS LEO backhaul last-mile remote microgrid monitoring

Open projects, for reference

  • LibreMesh and LibreRouter
  • Open5GS
  • Magma
  • Meshtastic
  • The Things Network and ChirpStack
  • Althea

07Other sectors

Every sector, one grid.

Scenarios · 5

Government and public safety

Warning starts with a measurement.Scenarios · 4

Cities

The street, measured block by block.Scenarios · 5

Industrial

Sites, ground and air, on one record.Scenarios · 5

Agriculture

Soil, water and weather, field by field.Scenarios · 4

Sports and events

A temporary grid for a crowd.Scenarios · 4

Development and humanitarian

Data gaps close before the crisis.Scenarios · 6

Scientific

Instruments that outlast the grant.Scenarios · 5

Environment and climate

Ecosystems, observed without a gap.Scenarios · 4

Energy

Assets, grids and weather, joined.Scenarios · 4

Transport

Corridors that report their own state.Scenarios · 4

Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use)

Civil sensing only. Nothing else.Scenarios · 3

Education

Learning to observe, on a real grid.

Bring us the site.

Survey, design, deployment and operation for communities and rural. The form names who receives your details.

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Connectivity and sensing, locally owned.

Community networks, Indigenous and remote connectivity, interim public-safety broadband and remote microgrids.

01How it works

From the instrument to the product.

The data path of each use case, tier by tier with the interface on every link, the equipment the use cases share, and one station joining the grid.

02Deployment scenarios

03Proof

What buyers ask to see.

The evidence a procurement in this sector asks for, from the sector research. Each item is produced by the grid as a record, not written up afterwards.

    04Participation

    Where communities can host the grid.

    Community

    Join the community

    One account for every community, platform and the NXS Observatory app.

    Open data

    Use the open networks

    Public observing networks on their own terms, ready to reuse.

    Hosting

    Host a station

    Tell us about a site; we bring the survey, the design and the crew.

    05Lines

    The lines that serve it.

    06Search terms and open work

    How the sector names the problem.

    The terms buyers and programmes use, and open projects in the space, named as factual references only. Naming a project is not an endorsement or a relationship.

    Search terms
    Open projects, for reference
      07Other sectors

      Every sector, one grid.

      Bring us the site.

      Talk to us