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The grid edge, observed.

Right-of-way and line monitoring, fire weather along transmission corridors, microgrids and site power, timing for protection and synchrophasors, and resource measurement for solar and wind that a lender can rely on.

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01In the field

Transmission corridor

Lattice towers carry a line across open country; conductor sensors report temperature and sag, and the substation edge brings them into the grid operator’s systems.

Open the tour

02Stories

How it works, in place.

Interactive stories with figures drawn to scale and every claim referenced.

All stories Place: Suburb The suburb as a power stationRooftop solar, home batteries and electric vehicles turn a residential street into thousands of small generators. Observing them is how a distribution grid…Place: Desert and dust Dust, heat and the solar fieldIn deserts, dust is weather. It reaches cities as air pollution, crosses oceans, and settles on solar panels: soiling cost global solar output at least…System: Timing and PNT Time as infrastructureA 5G cell must hold its phase within 3 µs of its neighbours, ±1.5 µs of a common reference; a synchrophasor’s one per cent vector error leaves room for only…

03What it needs to observe

What this industry has to measure.

Solar and wind resource assessment, grid edge and microgrids.

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Line and right-of-way condition

02

Fire weather along corridors

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Solar and wind resource

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Timing for protection

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Substation and site power

04Use cases

Where it is deployed.

Deployment scenarios from the sector research and the use-case library.

Use case · medium complexity

Wildfire camera and fire-weather node

Pan-tilt and thermal cameras with edge inference on a ridgeline tower, co-located with a fire-weather station.

Who
Electric utilities, provinces and states, counties.
Data
Smoke-detection alerts to dispatch, labelled supplementary; Public camera feeds; Fire-weather indices

OASIS CAP 1.2 (outbound alerts)

NWCG RAWS standards

NFPA 1600

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Use case · medium complexity

Remote microgrid observatory

Solar, storage and power-quality telemetry with a weather station and a small cell, for a community that is reducing diesel.

Who
Remote communities, utilities, Indigenous power producers.
Data
Diesel offset and power-quality records; Solar-resource measurements

IEEE 1547

IEEE 2030.5

National electrical codes

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Use case · high complexity

Utility 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.

Who
Electric utilities.
Data
Fault location, isolation and service restoration telemetry; Distributed-energy control and islanding events; Wildfire-risk weather observations

3GPP Band 106

IEC 61850

IEEE 1547 / 2030.5

NERC CIP

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Energy

Bankable solar and wind measurement campaigns

Accepted standards, traceable calibration and transparent data handling.

Energy

Remote-community microgrid monitoring

Energy

Utility grid-edge private LTE

Every use case

05Solutions

What we deliver.

Each offer is designed, deployed and run on the open protocol by Nexus Observatory Inc.

hardware + software, managed service

Wildfire camera and fire-weather networks

Camera towers with edge inference and co-located fire-weather stations; detections go to the agency that decides and dispatches.

How we deliver it →

hardware + software, managed service

Modular edge data centre (AI tower in a box)

A containerised edge data centre at the foot of a tower: GPU nodes, power, cooling and attestation, run as a service.

How we deliver it →

hardware + software, managed service

Microgrids and off-grid site power

PV, storage and generator sizing for instruments and edge sites, with telemetry and remote control.

How we deliver it →

managed service, data licence

Power-grid edge and right-of-way monitoring

Line temperature and sag, vegetation encroachment from EO and LiDAR, substation sensors and fire-weather at the right-of-way.

How we deliver it →

hardware + software, managed service

Timing and positioning integrity

PTP grandmasters with GNSS holdover, interference detection and timing monitoring for networks and instruments.

How we deliver it →

06Service platforms

The platforms behind it.

9 of the network’s service platforms build the systems this industry runs on.

Service platform

Sensors & instruments

Measurements that carry their own proof.
Service platform

Earth observation & GeoAI

The ground, measured and modelled.
Service platform

Edge compute & AI

Inference beside the instrument.
Service platform

Hardware & power

Built for the site, not the lab.
Service platform

Field services

Survey to decommission, one accountable crew.
Service platform

Connectivity

Private 5G, AI-RAN and orbit, on site.
Service platform

Positioning, navigation and timing

Where and when, with the error bound.
Service platform

Security and trust

Every node proves what it is.
Service platform

Digital twins and simulation

Model the site before you build it.

07Open and community

Open by default. Built with the people who use it.

Open data, open methods and the open protocol, with the people who use them.

Open projects this community builds on

  • pvlib
  • NREL SAM
  • OpenOA
  • OpenEMS

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08Infrastructure and industry

Neighbouring industries.

Industry

Telecom

Towers that compute, sense and connect.
Industry

Transport

Corridors that report their own conditions.
Industry

Infrastructure

Assets that report their own condition.
Industry

Mining

The mine, measured from pit to tailings.
Industry

Industry

Plants and ports, sensed and connected.

Bring us the site.

Survey, design, deployment and operation for energy. The form names who receives your details.

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The grid edge, observed.

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