Public safety: a fire camera on a ridge mast locks on a smoke column and alerts the siren.
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Government and public safetyEmergency management, wildfire, flood and early-warning delivery. The demand signal is data gaps and sustained operation, not hardware.
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Government and public safety: on the ground
Government and public safety
Warning starts with a measurement.
Emergency management, wildfire, flood and early-warning delivery. The demand signal is data gaps and sustained operation, not hardware.
Wildfire forest
Wildfire forest
A forested slope on real terrain, with two camera masts on the ridges.
Wildfire forest
Wildfire forest
Red ground is where smoke 10 m above the trees is in the ridge camera’s line of sight.
Wildfire forest
Wildfire forest
The weather station feeds the fire-weather indices. Temperature, humidity, wind and rain feed the fire-weather indices the agency already uses.
Wildfire forest
Ridge camera mast
Each mast carries a camera; two bearings fix a smoke column. A pan-tilt camera on a guyed 30 m mast; two masts triangulate a smoke column to a bearing fix.
Proof
What buyers ask to see.
- Reporting uptime
- Data-format conformance
- Independently evaluated false-alarm rates
- Time to repair
- References from a meteorological service or an emergency agency
- Bilingual alerting where required
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.
Protocol & Grid, Sensors & instrumentsNational GBON surface and upper-air network
WMO-grade stations reporting through WIS 2.0, funded through the systematic-observations financing pathway.Protocol & Grid, Sensors & instrumentsWildfire camera network and fire-weather stations
Camera towers with edge inference and co-located fire-weather stations, utility- or agency-funded.Protocol & Grid, Hardware & powerUrban street-flood sensor network
Open-hardware depth sensors with open data and alerts to emergency management.Software, Sensors & instrumentsAlerting integration with the Common Alerting Protocol and cell broadcast
Software-heavy: sensor triggers feed an alert origination tool; the alert authority keeps every decision.Hardware & power, ConnectivityDeployable communications and sensing for incident command
A cell on wheels with satellite backhaul, mesh telemetry and environment nodes at the incident base.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.
- Reporting uptime
- Data-format conformance
- Independently evaluated false-alarm rates
- Time to repair
- References from a meteorological service or an emergency agency
- Bilingual alerting where required
04Participation
Where communities can host the grid.
CommunityJoin the community
One account for every community, platform and the NXS Observatory app.Open dataUse the open networks
Public observing networks on their own terms, ready to reuse.HostingHost 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.
PlatformSensors & instruments
Measurements that carry their own proof.PlatformProtocol & Grid
Your grid, on the open protocol.PlatformHardware & power
Built for the site, not the lab.PlatformConnectivity
Private 5G, AI-RAN and orbit, on site.PlatformSoftware
One runtime. Every node. Every state.PlatformEdge compute & AI
Inference beside the instrument.PlatformEarth observation & GeoAI
The ground, measured and modelled.PlatformField services
Survey to decommission, one accountable crew.PlatformData & 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 multi-hazard early warning system GBON WIS 2.0 automatic weather station tender wildfire detection camera flood sensor network CAP alerting deployable cell impact-based forecasting EW4All
Open projects, for reference
- FloodNet NYC open hardware
- UCAR 3D-PAWS
- Open CAP editors
- WIS2 reference nodes (wis2box)
- Sensor.Community
07Other sectors
Every sector, one grid.
Scenarios · 4Cities
The street, measured block by block.Scenarios · 5Communities and rural
Connectivity and sensing, locally owned.Scenarios · 5Industrial
Sites, ground and air, on one record.Scenarios · 5Agriculture
Soil, water and weather, field by field.Scenarios · 4Sports and events
A temporary grid for a crowd.Scenarios · 4Development and humanitarian
Data gaps close before the crisis.Scenarios · 6Scientific
Instruments that outlast the grant.Scenarios · 5Environment and climate
Ecosystems, observed without a gap.Scenarios · 4Energy
Assets, grids and weather, joined.Scenarios · 4Transport
Corridors that report their own state.Scenarios · 4Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use)
Civil sensing only. Nothing else.Scenarios · 3Education
Learning to observe, on a real grid.Bring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for government and public safety. The form names who receives your details.
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