Nexus Observatory Inc. is the system designer and integrator for the open Observatory Protocol. Instruments, power, links, timing, compute, AI and data: we design them as one system, commission them on the protocol and keep them current for the working life of the site.
An observatory is never one instrument. It is ground, a mast, a power budget, a set of sensors, a backhaul link, a clock with an error bound, a computer and the crew who keep it all inside specification. Each part ships with its own datasheet. None of them ships with the interfaces between them.
That is our work. We design the whole system, integrate every part on the open Observatory Protocol and stay accountable for it through its working life. The protocol is stewarded by the Nexus Consortium, so what we build interoperates with what anyone else builds on it.
Eleven stages, one record. Each stage hands the next a site that is described, evidenced and ready to change, so nothing is relearned at handover. Choose a stage to see what we deliver.
Every layer speaks the same protocol: it enrols each node, attests what it is, disciplines its clock, describes what it measures, moves its data and carries the evidence. Swap a radio, a sensor or a model, and the rest of the site keeps working.
They decide every design review, every commissioning report and every sentence on this site.
We name the instrument, the standard, the unit and the tolerance. A requirement that cannot be measured is not yet a requirement.
Every claim about a site sits beside its evidence: a test, a calibration record, a state. What is not yet proven is marked planned, in plain sight.
We build on the open protocol and publish what we can license. Your instruments, your data and your rights stay yours.
Science, safety, infrastructure and public service, nothing else. Every site is designed first for the crew who climb it.
An observatory serves a place. We work with the communities, landholders and agencies around each site, in their language and on their terms.
The protocol is open and governed in the open. The companies that build on it are named here, and so is the one you contract with.
The parent of the Ellipi Group. It holds the group’s companies.
Designs, builds and runs observatories, supports the open protocol, and is the seller of record for customers in Canada.
The seller of record for products and services to customers outside Canada.
The Observatory Protocol is open, so anyone can build on it. The Nexus Consortium stewards it and its change process. The companies support the open work and build enterprise systems on it.
Each enterprise line has its own site and team, built on the same protocol, grid and design.
Where it is, what it must measure and who depends on it. We will tell you what it takes, and what it will not do.
One station, a regional network or a federated grid. Bring the question; we bring the method and the crew.
[PLACEHOLDER] contact emailInstrument makers, software teams and researchers putting their work on the open protocol.
[PLACEHOLDER] developer emailEngineers, scientists, field crews and designers who want their work standing outside, in weather, for decades.
[PLACEHOLDER] careers emailStart on the open protocol today, or talk to us about designing, commissioning and running yours.
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