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IndustriesEach industry has its own site with its use cases and the enterprise path. These are the ones that build on this platform.
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At a glance
Design and integration for public safety
For public safety and emergency management, Design and integration serves rainfall, river level and soil moisture, fire weather, smoke and ignition and ground movement and seismic activity. Observing networks, communications and data for emergency management: hydromet and fire-weather stations, camera towers with inference at the edge, deployable cells for incident command, and the integration that hands a trigger to the alerting authority, which keeps every decision.
Die probleem
One accountable integrator, site to grid
This page shows the industries Design and integration serves and what each needs from it. System design against the reference architecture, engineering packs a contractor can build from, multi-vendor integration on typed interfaces, and programme delivery across many sites with one plan, one schedule and one evidence record.
Components
- Pole-mounted edge gateway node
- Overhead line sensor on a distribution span
- Automatic weather station (AWS) to WMO siting practice
- Distribution pole transformer and meter cabinet
- Private LTE mast on a solar skid
- “AI tower in a box”
- Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment
- Operations console with a video wall
Interfaces
- Instrumente
- SDI-12 · RS-485 / Modbus RTU · 4–20 mA
- Radio
- Ethernet · LTE-M / NB-IoT · LoRaWAN
- Time and position
- GNSS 1PPS
- Security
- TPM 2.0
- Publishing
- MQTT
Where it works
- Design and integration for infrastructure
In the story below
- The system, part by part
- Assembly
- Installation
- Deployment
- Connections
- Operation
- Failure and recovery
- Scale and federation
- What you get
Scenes · 13
Next steps
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Design and integrationDesign and integration · Industries served
One accountable integrator, site to grid
This page shows the industries Design and integration serves and what each needs from it. System design against the reference architecture, engineering packs a contractor can build from, multi-vendor integration on typed interfaces, and programme delivery across many sites with one plan, one schedule and one evidence record.
Industry · Public safety
Design and integration for public safety
For public safety and emergency management, Design and integration serves rainfall, river level and soil moisture, fire weather, smoke and ignition and ground movement and seismic activity. Observing networks, communications and data for emergency management: hydromet and fire-weather stations, camera towers with inference at the edge, deployable cells for incident command, and the integration that hands a trigger to the alerting authority, which keeps every decision.
Industry · Humanitarian
Design and integration for humanitarian
For humanitarian and development, Design and integration serves weather and water where stations are missing, connectivity at camps and field offices and off-grid power. Deployable connectivity and sensing for displacement sites and crisis response, observing-network gap filling where stations are fewest, satellite backhaul where nothing else reaches, and evidence funders can audit.
Industry · Infrastructure
Design and integration for infrastructure
For construction and infrastructure assets, Design and integration serves displacement and deformation, vibration and strain and ground movement over wide areas. Structural and ground-movement monitoring for bridges, dams, tunnels and slopes, drone survey and 3D twins for construction, satellite interferometry over whole networks, and deployable kits for the site before the permanent network exists.
Time and place
When and where, on every record
Each record for Design and integration is stamped against a clock that satellite time or a PTP grandmaster disciplines, and it carries the position and siting record of its station. If time or position degrades, the record for Design and integration says so plainly, so every user downstream reads the same warning.
Industry · Government
Design and integration for government
For government and national programmes, Design and integration serves gaps in national network coverage, data exchange across agencies and station uptime and data completeness. Programmes that build a country’s observing capability: national station networks, connectivity for remote sites, data platforms every ministry can read, and the qualification and training that keep it running long after commissioning.
Vertroue
Proved before it is trusted
No node joins a network for Design and integration on trust: its hardware root of trust first answers an attestation challenge. Keys for Design and integration never leave secure hardware, updates arrive signed, and each record carries the signature that lets anyone downstream trace it to its source.
Bewyse
Standards an auditor can check
Observations for Design and integration are described to WIGOS and ISO 19115 practice, served through OGC SensorThings and exchanged through WIS 2.0. Each release, calibration and admission for Design and integration is a signed record, and an auditor checks it independently against the standard it names.
Failure and recovery
When a node fails, the fleet knows first
A node for Design and integration that goes silent, or a sensor that drifts, keeps its data in a buffer and moves to a second link where the site has one. The responder’s alert carries the evidence, and the record for Design and integration neither loses a value nor counts one twice.
Field service
One crew, from survey to repair
The sites for Design and integration are surveyed, installed, commissioned, calibrated and repaired by one crew that works from each site’s own record. Every visit to a site for Design and integration updates that record, so the next crew knows what is there, when it was last checked and why it changed.
How it scales
One base unit, repeated
The first unit of a network for Design and integration is one base node and the instruments it reads, proven on one site. Power and radio make it a station, a relay makes it a site, and a fleet repeats that site, so a network for Design and integration grows by adding units rather than replacing them.
What you get
Open where it can be, contracted where it must be
What is open behind Design and integration stays open: the protocol, the methods and the open data are free to use and build on. Sites, fleets, managed operations and data tiers for Design and integration come under contract from Nexus Observatory Inc., priced per site and per fleet, with service levels you can check.
Next step
Design and integration, planned with you
Tell us your industry, your sites and what Design and integration must measure or connect there. An engineer replies with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for Design and integration, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need.
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Design and integration
More presentations
See it from every side.
Each opens as a full-screen presentation: deeper pages on the same subject, explainers, stories, guided tours of the places, network scenes and the observatories that came before.
All presentationsIn depth
ISIC section · ISIC O Public administration and defence; compulsory social securityUse case Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weatherISIC section · ISIC Q Human health and social work activitiesUse case GBON gap-filler stationExplainers
Explainer · Government and public safety Government and public safetyWildfire cameras on real terrain, GBON station density, street-flood alert thresholds, CAP alerting with the authority in the loop and the radio horizon of a deployable cell.Explainer · Development and humanitarian Development and humanitarian, explainedPlatform Design and integrationMany suppliers, nobody accountablePlatform Field servicesSites fail between contractorsStories
Story · Federation across agencies Many agencies, one pictureNo single agency observes everything it needs. Federation lets each keep its own systems and still share: common interfaces, common catalogues and common…Story · Resilient operations When the links failObserving systems matter most on the days infrastructure fails. Designing for that day means local autonomy, stored power, store-and-forward delivery and…Story · End to end An observation grid, end to endAn observation is not a reading. It is a reading with a place, a time, a calibration and a path that anyone can follow back. An observing grid is the…Places and networks
Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Orbit viewGround tracks of a sun-synchronous imager and three shells of a broadband constellation, computed from their orbits over a rotating Earth.Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Ground stationAn 11 m class antenna and its companions on a fenced pad, with edge compute that turns each pass into catalogued products before the next one.Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Open-pit mineGNSS slope monitors on the benches, a blast seismograph at the boundary and a private cell for the fleet, around a benched pit cut into the ground.Network scene · NTN · Satellite Satellite direct to device in a mountain valleyWhere the valley cell cannot reach, phones on the pass road connect straight to a low-orbit satellite, which relays through its feeder link to a gateway.Network scene · Backhaul · Fresnel zone Microwave backhaul across a river valleyAn 18 GHz hop from the church tower to a mast on the far side of the flood plain: its first Fresnel zone, clearance over the town and trees, and what a new building in the path…Heritage observatories
Heritage observatory · United States · 1921 Caltech Seismological LaboratoryA laboratory in Pasadena that gave earthquakes a number. The Richter magnitude scale of 1935 depended on one instrument type in many places, a lesson as relevant to networks today…Heritage observatory · Global network of about 150 stations; USGS and EarthScope (formerly IRIS) partnership · 1984 Global Seismographic NetworkAbout 150 digital broadband seismic stations in some 80 countries, sending data to open archives within minutes.Interactive tools
Interactive tool · Plan a site Field Deployment StudioTerrain, devices, coverage, viewshed, power and the best spot for a station, then a deployment request with the plan attached.01Industries served
The industries that build on design and integration.
Each industry has its own site: its use cases, its community and the enterprise path, with this platform among the systems behind it.
NywerheidPublic safety
Warning time, gained at the sensor. Visit the industry site →NywerheidGovernment
National observing infrastructure, delivered as one programme. Visit the industry site →NywerheidHumanitêr
Observation where the need is greatest and the grid is thinnest. Visit the industry site →NywerheidInfrastruktuur
Assets that report their own condition. Visit the industry site →02Use cases
Worked use cases in these industries.
Each names who deploys it, the kit by device class and the data products it publishes.
Use caseStreet flood observatory
Ultrasonic depth sensors on poles report street-level water depth as open data and alerts. Read the use case →Use caseHybrid air-quality observatory
A few reference analysers and many low-cost nodes, with co-location calibration and an open-data feed. Read the use case →Use caseGBON gap-filler station
A WMO-grade surface station, optional upper-air ground station and a WIS 2.0 node, built to report reliably where the global basic observing network has gaps. Read the use case →Use caseWildfire camera and fire-weather node
Pan-tilt and thermal cameras with edge inference on a ridgeline tower, co-located with a fire-weather station. Read the use case →Use caseUtility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weather
Private LTE on substations and poles for distribution automation, with weather nodes that inform public-safety power shutoff decisions. Read the use case →Use caseMine site private 5G and environmental monitoring
A standalone 5G core, radios across the pit and edge compute for autonomy, with dust, vibration, slope and weather sensing for environmental records. Read the use case →03Every industry
Every industry on the network.
Public and civic
Aarde en omgewing
Infrastruktuur en nywerheid
Knowledge, health and people
04Op hierdie werf
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