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  1. Insurance and finance · Resources

    Independent measurements for risk transfer

    Independent measurement feeds for parametric triggers, physical-condition data on insured and financed assets, and Earth observation of events after they happen, each with the evidence trail an auditor asks for. Needs: wind, rain and ground motion at the trigger point, asset condition over time, event footprints from orbit, independent, tamper-evident records and latency and completeness of every feed.

  2. Story

    Wildfire

    A worked story shows how a insurance and finance 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

    River floods

    A worked story shows how a insurance and finance 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. Story

    Digital twin site

    A worked story shows how a insurance and finance 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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  5. Story

    Provenance

    A worked story shows how a insurance and finance 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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  6. What must be measured

    Insurance and finance: what must be measured

    Wind, rain and ground motion at the trigger point, asset condition over time, event footprints from orbit, independent, tamper-evident records and latency and completeness of every feed. Each is measured by instruments sited to recognised practice, read by a base node that stamps, checks and signs every value.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. What you get

    Independent measurement feeds for parametric triggers

    Calibrated, tamper-evident measurement feeds that a risk carrier may name as the index source. The group writes no insurance and makes no payout decision. Delivered as data licence, for insurers, reinsurers, brokers, risk pools. Scale: Portfolio scale. Service levels are written as numbers you can measure on your own dashboard.

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  13. Next step

    Plan an insurance and finance deployment

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

02Explainer and stories

See it at work.

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

Forest and wildfire

Seeing smoke sooner

A fire is cheapest to fight in its first hour. Ridge-top cameras, weather in the stand and satellite hot spots each see it at different times and scales;…Read the story →
River basin and floods

Rising water, counted in metres

A flood map is a sentence about the future: this ground lies below that level. Gauges along the valley, a weather station and a terrain model turn the…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 →
Data provenance chain

From sensor to record

A published observation should carry its own history: which instrument made it, when, under which calibration, and every step since. The web already has a…Read the story →
AI weather and geospatial foundation models

Models that learned the atmosphere

In three years, machine-learned weather models went from research papers to operations. They learned from decades of reanalysis, which means they inherit…Read the story →
Post-quantum cryptography

Cryptography that outlasts the quantum computer

Data signed today may need to be trusted in 2040. Post-quantum standards were first published in August 2024, and governments have set dates for leaving…Read the story →

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Resources for insurance and finance.

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