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Mobile network sitesMobile sites, watched even when they are down.
A mobile site fails for ordinary reasons: a mains cut, a tired battery, a hot shelter, a storm or a break-in. Sensors for power, climate, tower movement, access and weather, with an out-of-band link, report to one record the network operations centre uses to fix sites before customers notice.
Plan a deploymentHow it worksStation Builder- Industry
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Telecom · Mobile network sites
Sites fail for ordinary reasons
Most mobile site outages start with something ordinary: a mains cut on a stormy night, a battery older than anyone thought, a shelter cooking in the sun, a stolen cable. Knowing every site’s power, climate and access, even when the site cannot report through its own network, lets operators act before customers notice.
What is measured
Power, climate, tower and access
Sensors on the site’s DC plant read mains, rectifiers and battery state. Climate sensors read shelters and cabinets, tilt and movement sensors watch the tower top and antennas, contacts and a camera watch doors and gates, and a small weather station records the storm.
- Instruments
- Power plant sensors · Shelter climate · Tower tilt · Door contacts · Camera · Site weather
The base node
Hold-up time, predicted
The site node predicts how long the batteries will hold the site after a mains cut, from load and state of charge. It flags shelters heading toward their limits, detects tower movement in storms and sends intrusion alarms with images, signing every value.
Radio and links
A second path out
Most sites reach the core over microwave or fibre, and monitoring rides that path while the site is up. An out-of-band modem on another operator’s network reports when the site’s own transmission is down, and remote sites without a second network use satellite.
- Links
- Microwave · Public cellular · Satellite
How it works
From a mains cut to a generator
A storm cuts mains to a hilltop site. The node reads the batteries taking the load and predicts hold-up time, then sends the alarm over the out-of-band modem when the site’s transmission fails. The operations centre sends a generator to the sites with the shortest time first.
From order to operation · Order
Scope the estate and the outages
The scope reads the site estate, its power and cooling designs, outage history, theft hot spots and the resilience duties the operator holds. Nexus Observatory Inc. returns a site kit by site type, the out-of-band design, the integration with the operations centre and a price per site and per year.
Plan a deploymentFrom order to operation · Survey
Survey site types, not every site
Crews survey representative sites of each type with the operator’s field team: power plant, shelter or cabinets, tower, access and coverage of a second network for the out-of-band path. The kit is designed per type so rollout across the estate is fast.
From order to operation · Permits
Site owners and climbing
Work on towers follows the owner’s climbing and safety rules and site access permits. Landlords are told of new equipment where leases require it. Cameras follow privacy rules for any public view, and every approval is kept with the site record.
From order to operation · Build
Build per site type
Gateways, nodes, sensors, cameras and out-of-band modems are kitted per site type, tested together and enrolled with their identities. Each kit is configured with the site’s power plant and alarm thresholds and labelled with the site code before it ships.
Open the Station BuilderFrom order to operation · Install
Install in a planned visit
Crews install during a planned visit: power sensors on the DC plant, climate sensors in shelters and cabinets, tilt and movement sensors at the tower top, door and gate contacts and a camera. The out-of-band modem is fitted, and every point is photographed.
From order to operation · Commission
Test a mains cut
Each node proves its identity. Power readings are compared with the rectifier, climate with a reference and tilt with the antenna survey. A controlled mains cut tests the battery prediction, and the out-of-band path is tested with the site’s transmission disconnected.
From order to operation · Operate
Fix before customers notice
The operations centre sees every site’s power, battery hold-up time, climate and access. Generators are sent to sites with the shortest hold-up first, overheating shelters are serviced before they trip, storms show which antennas moved, and every outage is kept on record.
From order to operation · Maintain
Maintain with the site visit
Monitoring kits are checked during routine site maintenance: sensors verified, batteries of the monitoring unit tested and software updated in rings across the fleet. Every change is recorded with the site, so outage evidence stays complete for resilience reporting. Spares travel with the crews.
Book field servicesData products
For operations, field and security teams
Network operations centres receive battery hold-up times; field teams receive climate alerts; tower engineers receive movement after storms; security teams receive intrusion alarms with images; operators and regulators receive outage and resilience records. Each product carries the site code and time.
See the data productsEvidence
Resilience you can report
Every reading, alarm and outage is signed and kept. Equipment environments follow the European telecom environmental classes, towers are assessed to the antenna structure standard, and outage records support the security and resilience duties of telecom and cybersecurity rules. Records are open to the regulator.
- Drawn against
- ETSI EN 300 019 · ANSI/TIA-222 · Directive (EU) 2018/1972 · Directive (EU) 2022/2555
What you get
Managed Site
One accountable operator for a site end to end: power, connectivity, instruments, compute, maintenance and evidence. Delivered as managed service, for any owner of remote or critical sites. Scale: Fleets of sites. Service levels are written as numbers you can measure on your own dashboard.
Talk to salesNext step
Plan mobile network sites with us
Tell us the site, the measurements and the rules it answers to. We reply with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for mobile network sites. 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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01The place and its hazards
Where it runs, and what can go wrong.
Operating contextMobile operators and tower companies run thousands of sites, many remote, on mains with batteries, generators or solar. Outages come from power, cooling, weather, vandalism and theft. Equipment must work within its environmental class, towers are designed and assessed to structural standards, and operators must manage the security and resilience of their networks under telecom rules.
Hazards
- Mains failures that drain batteries before anyone arrives
- Shelters overheating in summer
- Storm and ice loads on towers and antennas
- Theft of batteries, cables and fuel
- Sites that cannot report because they are down
02What must be measured
What, where, how often, and under which rules.
Each measurement names where it is taken, how often, and the public standard or regulation behind it. Numbers in the sources column open the cited source below.
| Measurement | Where | Cadence | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mains, rectifier and battery state | The site’s power system | Continuous | 1 |
| Shelter and cabinet temperature and humidity | Inside shelters and outdoor cabinets | Continuous | 2 |
| Tower movement and antenna tilt | Tower top and antenna mounts | Continuous, events in storms | 3 |
| Access and intrusion | Gates, shelter doors and cabinets | On event | 1 |
| Site weather | A small station on the tower or compound | Continuous | 4 |
03The observation stack
From one base unit to a network.
The same blocks at every scale: instruments and a base node, a site with its radio, a fleet run as one, and a network federated on the open protocol.
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Base unit
A site point: power, climate, movement and access sensors on an industrial gateway with a small edge node.
Build a station → - 02
Site
A mobile site: the node, a camera and an out-of-band cellular modem on a different network from the site’s own.
Plan a site → - 03
Fleet
Every site of an operator or tower company run as one fleet, with one record.
Managed offers → - 04
Network
Operators, tower companies and regulators exchange outage and resilience records through open standards.
The open protocol →
- 01Energy and power-quality meter
- 02Compact weather station
- 03Vibration and condition monitor
- 04Fixed camera
- 05OT gateway (OPC UA, Modbus)
- 06Edge node (Wedge)
- 07Cellular modem/router
- 08Solar array
- 09Lattice tower
Radio and links
Point-to-point microwave
Most sites reach the core over microwave or fibre; site monitoring rides it while the site is up.
Radio and links
Public cellular
An out-of-band modem on another network reports when the site’s own transmission is down.
Radio and links
Satellite
Remote sites with no second network report alarms by satellite.
Edge computeThe site node predicts battery hold-up time from load and state of charge after a mains cut, flags shelters heading toward their temperature limits, detects tower movement events in storms and sends intrusion alarms with images.
PowerMonitoring runs from the site’s DC plant with its own small battery, so it reports after the site’s batteries are exhausted.
04How it works
From the instrument to the product.
One observation’s path, tier by tier, with the interface on every link and a bill of materials below; then how the one node grows to a site, a fleet and federated networks.
Mobile network sites: data path
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01 Instruments Measurement with sensor identity andcalibration 02 Gateway 03 Node – Wrap in an observation envelope with timequality– Measure quality and uncertainty, attachquality flags– Buffer locally (store-and-forward when thelink drops) 04 Backhaul Commit with transactional outbox andpublish, delivered at least once 05 Site Consumer inbox deduplicates and applieseach record once into governed data 06 Data store Governed product through API, map orexport, correction-aware 07 Products OPC UAModbusOGC SensorThings API 08 Power and structure Supplies 12 V DC, 24 V DC, 48 V DC to thefield equipment 01 Energy and power-quality meter SDI-12 · RS-485 · Ethernet 02 Compact weather station SDI-12 · RS-485 · Ethernet 03 Vibration and condition monitor Analogue I/O · RS-485 · Ethernet 04 Fixed camera Ethernet 05 OT gateway (OPC UA, Modbus) Ethernet · RS-485 · CAN · AnalogueI/O 06 Edge node (Wedge) Ethernet · Fibre · USB · RS-485 ·BMC 07 Cellular modem/router Ethernet · USB · RS-232 Site MQTT 5 with Sparkplug B Governed data store Versioned, correction-aware Battery hold-up time aftermains cuts Shelter and cabinet climatealerts Tower movement afterstorms Intrusion alarms with images Outage and resiliencerecords 08 Solar array RS-485 09 Lattice tower RS-485 · Modbus RS-485 · Modbus RS-485 · Modbus Ethernet · RTSP/ONVIF Ethernet · opc-ua Ethernet LTE/NR| Item | Equipment | Data ports | Protocols | Power in |
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| 01 | Energy and power-quality meterMeter for voltage, current, power, energy and power quality at a site or on a feeder. | SDI-12RS-485Ethernet | Modbus, IEC 61850 (MMS, GOOSE), DNP3 (IEEE 1815), MQTT 5 | 12 V DC |
| 02 | Compact weather stationAll-in-one or compact station for temperature, humidity, pressure, wind and rain at a site. | SDI-12RS-485Ethernet | SDI-12, Modbus, MQTT 5, OGC SensorThings API | 12 V DC |
| 03 | Vibration and condition monitorAccelerometer-based vibration and temperature sensor for rotating machinery and structural condition monitoring. | Analogue I/ORS-485Ethernet | Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT 5 | 12 V DC |
| 04 | Fixed cameraFixed visible-light camera for site security, scene monitoring and machine vision. | Ethernet | RTSP with ONVIF profiles, MQTT 5 | PoE |
| 05 | OT gateway (OPC UA, Modbus)Read-only bridge from industrial fieldbuses and controllers (Modbus, OPC UA, DNP3, IEC 61850, CAN) to the site network, behind a security boundary. | EthernetRS-485CANAnalogue I/O | OPC UA, Modbus, DNP3 (IEEE 1815), IEC 61850 (MMS, GOOSE), MQTT 5 | 24 V DC |
| 06 | Edge node (Wedge)Rugged edge node that boots from signed media, attests itself and establishes a site cell from little or no infrastructure. | EthernetFibreUSBRS-485BMC | MQTT 5, DMTF Redfish, IEEE 1588 PTP, NTP with NTS, OPC UA | 12 V DC, 24 V DC, 48 V DC, AC mains |
| 07 | Cellular modem/routerLTE or NR modem or router that uses a public carrier or private network as backhaul. | EthernetUSBRS-232 | 3GPP E-UTRA air interface, 3GPP NR air interface, OMA LwM2M | 12 V DC, PoE |
| 08 | Solar arrayPV modules with charge controller sized to the site’s load and climate. | RS-485 | Modbus | — |
| 09 | Lattice towerSelf-supporting or guyed lattice tower for macro radios, links and instruments. | — | — | — |
05From order to operation
Every step, from the first call to a running site.
The same crew and the same record carry the work from scope to maintenance.
- 01 Order
Scope the estate and the outages
The scope reads the site estate, its power and cooling designs, outage history, theft hot spots and the resilience duties the operator holds. Nexus Observatory Inc. returns a site kit by site type, the out-of-band design, the integration with the operations centre and a price per site and per year. 1
- 02 Survey
Survey site types, not every site
Crews survey representative sites of each type with the operator’s field team: power plant, shelter or cabinets, tower, access and coverage of a second network for the out-of-band path. The kit is designed per type so rollout across the estate is fast.
- 03 Permits
Site owners and climbing
Work on towers follows the owner’s climbing and safety rules and site access permits. Landlords are told of new equipment where leases require it. Cameras follow privacy rules for any public view, and every approval is kept with the site record.
- 04 Build
Build per site type
Gateways, nodes, sensors, cameras and out-of-band modems are kitted per site type, tested together and enrolled with their identities. Each kit is configured with the site’s power plant and alarm thresholds and labelled with the site code before it ships.
- 05 Install
Install in a planned visit
Crews install during a planned visit: power sensors on the DC plant, climate sensors in shelters and cabinets, tilt and movement sensors at the tower top, door and gate contacts and a camera. The out-of-band modem is fitted, and every point is photographed.
- 06 Commission
Test a mains cut
Each node proves its identity. Power readings are compared with the rectifier, climate with a reference and tilt with the antenna survey. A controlled mains cut tests the battery prediction, and the out-of-band path is tested with the site’s transmission disconnected.
- 07 Operate
Fix before customers notice
The operations centre sees every site’s power, battery hold-up time, climate and access. Generators are sent to sites with the shortest hold-up first, overheating shelters are serviced before they trip, storms show which antennas moved, and every outage is kept on record. 13
- 08 Maintain
Maintain with the site visit
Monitoring kits are checked during routine site maintenance: sensors verified, batteries of the monitoring unit tested and software updated in rings across the fleet. Every change is recorded with the site, so outage evidence stays complete for resilience reporting. Spares travel with the crews.
06Data products and integration
What it delivers, to whom, and into which systems.
Data products
- Battery hold-up time after mains cutsNetwork operations centres
- Shelter and cabinet climate alertsField maintenance teams
- Tower movement after stormsTower engineers
- Intrusion alarms with imagesSecurity teams
- Outage and resilience recordsOperators and regulators
Integration
- Network operations centreAlarms and site state reach the operator’s fault management system through its own interfaces.
- Field serviceAlarms open work orders with the site’s record attached.
- Resilience reportingOutage records are exported for incident reporting to regulators.
Exchanged through OPC UA, Modbus, OGC SensorThings API.
07Questions buyers ask
Before you scope it.
Will it report when the site is down?
Yes. The out-of-band modem uses another network and the monitor has its own battery.
Does it work on tower company sites?
Yes, with the owner’s agreement; data can be shared between owner and tenant.
Can it prioritise generators?
Battery hold-up time per site shows which sites to reach first.
Does it help with theft?
Door, gate and cabinet alarms with images reach security at once.
08Resources
The sources behind this page.
Public standards, regulations and guidance, cited where they apply. Each applies only where its jurisdiction or scope does.
- 1Directive (EU) 2022/2555 on a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (NIS2)European Union · 2022
- 2ETSI EN 300 019: Environmental conditions and environmental tests for telecommunications equipmentEuropean Telecommunications Standards Institute
- 3ANSI/TIA-222: Structural Standard for Antenna Supporting Structures and AntennasTelecommunications Industry Association
- 4Guide to Instruments and Methods of Observation (WMO-No. 8)World Meteorological Organization
09Related
Use cases and solutions.
Use caseCommunity cellular and sensing
Small cells with an open core, satellite backhaul and solar power, plus a sensing overlay, for a community that owns its network.The full use case →SolutionManaged Site
One accountable operator for a site end to end: power, connectivity, instruments, compute, maintenance and evidence.Solutions for telecom →SolutionMicrogrids and off-grid site power
PV, storage and generator sizing for instruments and edge sites, with telemetry and remote control.Solutions for telecom →SolutionPrivate Wireless as a Service
Standalone private 5G or LTE for a site, campus, port or mine: radios, core, SIMs, spectrum route and operations.Solutions for telecom →10Telecom: specialized fields
Other fields of this industry.
Specialized fieldFibre networks and outside plant
Distributed fibre sensing along routes, flooding and gas in chambers, and cabinet access and climate, on LoRaWAN and the fibre itself, so dig-ins and faults are found before the cable is cut.The full field →Specialized fieldEdge data centres
Power and energy, cooling and air, leaks and vibration in edge and regional data centres, on an industrial network behind a security gateway, with efficiency indicators to the standard.The full field →Specialized fieldSatellite ground stations
Rain, wind and lightning at the antennas, antenna drive condition, timing and site security at satellite ground stations, on the site’s fibre, so passes are planned around the weather and faults are caught between passes.The full field →Specialized fieldSpectrum monitoring and interference
Fixed and mobile receivers that measure occupancy, find interference and locate its source by direction finding and time difference, with GNSS timing, so regulators and operators clear the bands they depend on.The full field →Bring us the site.
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