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Connectivity and observation the community owns
Community cellular and broadband, microgrids that keep them on, and local weather, water and ice stations, designed so the community holds the network, the data and the decisions about both. Needs: coverage where carriers do not build, power for remote sites, local weather, water and ice, data governance held by the community and local skills to operate.
Story
Rural village
A worked story shows how a communities 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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Indigenous north
A worked story shows how a communities 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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Arctic
A worked story shows how a communities 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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Ntn backhaul
A worked story shows how a communities 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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Communities: what must be measured
Coverage where carriers do not build, power for remote sites, local weather, water and ice, data governance held by the community and local skills to operate. Each is measured by instruments sited to recognised practice, read by a base node that stamps, checks and signs every value.
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.
What you get
Municipal sensing and connectivity layers
City-wide LPWAN or private 5G as a shared layer for public sensors and services. Delivered as managed service, for cities, regional governments. Scale: City-wide. Service levels are written as numbers you can measure on your own dashboard. Changes are versioned, tested and reversible.
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Plan a communities deployment
Tell us the sites, the measurements and the people who will use them. We reply with a design and a scope for communities. 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.
- 3GPP LTE/NR
- ISED Access Licensing Framework (SAB-002-26)
- Local data-governance principles (OCAP) where applicable
- IEEE 1547
- IEEE 2030.5
- National electrical codes
- OASIS CAP 1.2
- National incident-management systems
- NTCIP 1204
- WMO-No. 8
- IGS RINEX
- INTERMAGNET
03Explainer and stories
See it at work.
The industry in 3D, and field stories with the systems in each and the sources behind them.
ExplainerCommunities, explained
Connectivity and observation the community owns.Open the explainer →Rural villageA village at the end of the line
Where the fibre ends, a single mast, a satellite terminal and a handful of sensors decide whether a village is on the map of observation. Canada’s target is…Read the story →Remote northern communityObservation the community governs
In a remote northern community, an observing station is also a question of who owns the data, who decides how it is used and who benefits. Principles for…Read the story →ArcticInstruments at the edge of the cryosphere
The Arctic has warmed about three to four times faster than the global average, depending on the period and the dataset. The instruments that showed it are…Read the story →Satellite backhaulWhen the backhaul is a satellite
For a remote site, the satellite is not a backup; it is the network. Since Release 17, the cellular standard includes satellites as part of the radio access…Read the story →04Terms
What people search for in this industry.
community networkIndigenous-owned ISPUniversal Broadband FundBEAD sub-granteefixed wireless accessCBRSLEO backhaullast-mileremote microgrid monitoringBring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for communities. The form names who receives your details.
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