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Learning paths, the standards cited across this site and the explainers that show the systems in 3D.

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  1. Infrastructure · Resources

    Assets that report their own condition

    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. Needs: displacement and deformation, vibration and strain, ground movement over wide areas, as-built geometry and site connectivity during construction.

  2. Story

    Airspace drones

    A worked story shows how a infrastructure 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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  3. Story

    Digital twin site

    A worked story shows how a infrastructure 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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  4. What must be measured

    Infrastructure: what must be measured

    Displacement and deformation, vibration and strain, ground movement over wide areas, as-built geometry and site connectivity during construction. Each is measured by instruments sited to recognised practice, read by a base node that stamps, checks and signs every value. The quality flag and the provenance travel with the data, so a decision can be traced to the reading behind it.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. How it scales

    One base unit, repeated

    A programme starts with one base node and the instruments it reads. A station adds power and radio, a site adds a relay, a fleet repeats the proven site across many places, and a network federates fleets through edge and core. Capacity grows by adding units, never by replacing what works.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. Failure and recovery

    When a node fails, the fleet knows first

    When a node goes silent or a sensor drifts, the node buffers its data, fails over to a second link where one exists, and the alert carries the evidence a responder needs. Nothing is lost and nothing is counted twice.

  12. What you get

    Structural and ground-movement monitoring

    GNSS, InSAR, tilt, strain and fibre sensing on bridges, dams, slopes, tailings and pipelines, with alert thresholds set by the owner. Delivered as managed service and data licence, for infrastructure, mining and pipeline operators, transport agencies. Scale: Asset portfolios. Service levels are written as numbers you can measure on your own dashboard.

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  13. Next step

    Plan an infrastructure deployment

    Tell us the sites, the measurements and the people who will use them. We reply with a design and a scope for infrastructure. 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.

  • OGC SensorThings API 1.1
  • Municipal open-data terms
  • EU Directive 2024/2881 (ambient air quality)
  • CEN/TS 17660 (sensor systems)
  • US EPA FEM/FRM reference methods
  • 3GPP Band 106
  • IEC 61850
  • IEEE 1547 / 2030.5
  • NERC CIP
  • 3GPP Rel-16/17 URLLC
  • ISO 17757 (autonomous mining machinery safety)
  • GISTM (tailings)
  • ISA/IEC 62443
  • Regulation (EU) 2024/1787
  • OGMP 2.0 reporting levels

03Explainer and stories

See it at work.

The industry in 3D, and field stories with the systems in each and the sources behind them.

Explainer

Infrastructure, explained

Assets that report their own condition.Open the explainer →
Airspace and drones

A shared sky below 120 metres

Flying beyond visual line of sight turns a drone from a camera on a stick into infrastructure. It needs a command link that holds, an identity others can…Read the story →
Digital twin of a site

A digital twin that keeps its sources

A digital twin is a model of a physical asset kept current by observation of it. The hard part is not the geometry; it is keeping every value in the model…Read the story →

04Terms

What people search for in this industry.

private 5G miningprivate LTE utility 900 MHzCBRS private networkautonomous haulage connectivitycontinuous methane monitoringLDAROGMP 2.0industrial IoT sensorstailings monitoringair quality sensor networklow-cost sensor calibrationhyperlocal air qualityurban heat island sensorsflood sensorssmart city LoRaWANopen data portal integration

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Resources for infrastructure.

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