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 →Nature: habitat measured without disturbing it: the site at a glance. The loop, step by step: 1. A valley site at first light. 2. Sensor, link, edge and console stand ready. 3. Cloud and wind sweep up the valley. 4. The station and the vault register it. 5. Time and place are fixed to every sample. 6. Signed packets hop over the radio link. 7. Relays carry the packets without reading them. 8. Signatures are checked before any model runs. 9. The edge model checks it against its limit. 10. The edge releases confirmed results only. 11. The alert reaches the operator console. 12. The console shows the evidence with the alert. 13. Record, proof and action are archived together. 14. Everything settles back to idle.
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A valley site at first light
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NatureHabitat, measured without disturbing it.
Bioacoustic and camera networks, forest-fire detection and fire weather, land-cover change from orbit and drone, and habitat monitoring that turns permit conditions and restoration commitments into measurements.
Plan a deploymentUse casesOpen the explainerIn the field
Guided 3D tourWildfire forest
Camera masts on the ridges, a weather station in the stand and a private cell: the red ground is what the ridge camera can see.02Stories
How it works, in place.
Interactive stories with figures drawn to scale and every claim referenced.
All stories Place: Forest and wildfire Seeing smoke soonerA 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;…System: LPWAN and mesh Kilometres on a coin cellMost environmental sensors send a few bytes a few times an hour. Low-power wide-area networks trade bandwidth for range and battery life; mesh networks…03Specialized fields
Nature, field by field.
Nature has its own specialised fields: forest condition and change, biodiversity counted from sound and images, peatlands and wetlands that keep their carbon only while wet, and restoration sites that must prove recovery. Each field below has its own standards, stack, radio, power and crew work, from the first order to the running operation.
Specialized fieldForest condition and change
Plots and towers that measure forest growth, drought stress, pests and microclimate, joined with satellite change detection to show where forests are healthy, stressed or lost.The full field →Specialized fieldBiodiversity monitoring
Acoustic recorders and camera traps that detect species automatically, so landowners, agencies and investors can measure biodiversity and show change against national and global targets.The full field →Specialized fieldPeatlands and wetlands
Water table, soil and weather stations across peatlands and wetlands, showing whether they store or release carbon and whether restoration is working.The full field →Specialized fieldLand restoration
Soil, vegetation, weather and drone surveys at restoration sites, showing whether degraded land is recovering and giving funders evidence they can audit.The full field →04The problem
What this industry has to measure.
Measurement, reporting and verification for methane, carbon, biodiversity and water quality.
01Species presence by sound and image
02Fire weather and ignition
03Land-cover and canopy change
04Soil and microclimate
05Evidence for permits and restoration
05Outcomes and proof
What you get, and how you can check it.
Every system we deliver comes with the evidence a buyer, an auditor or a regulator asks for.
What you can measure
- Species presence by sound and image
- Fire weather and ignition
- Land-cover and canopy change
- Soil and microclimate
- Evidence for permits and restoration
Proof buyers ask for
- Regulator acceptance
- Third-party verification
- Uncertainty quantification
- Reconciliation at the highest reporting level
- Open methods
- Calibration records
- Data completeness
- Agreement with reference stations
06Use cases
Where it is deployed.
Worked use cases and deployment scenarios. Open one for the kit, the data products and the standards.
Use case · low to medium complexityHybrid air-quality observatory
A few reference analysers and many low-cost nodes, with co-location calibration and an open-data feed.- Who
- Cities, public-health units, school districts.
- Data
- Air-quality index and hyperlocal maps, labelled supplementary; Calibrated time series with quality flags; Publication route to an open air-quality aggregator
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
Mine 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.- Who
- Mining companies and their contractors.
- Data
- Autonomy and safety communications records; Environmental monitoring records (dust, blast vibration, slope, tailings)
Methane fenceline and site-level continuous monitoring
Regulatory cadences in the EU and reporting levels in voluntary frameworks.The full use case →Environment and climateBiodiversity measurement with acoustics and camera traps
Acoustic baselines as a biodiversity data source; no registry methodology accepting acoustic data was found.The full use case →Environment and climateWildfire smoke and particulate health networks
Overlaps with cities and public safety.The full use case →07Solution bundles
Start with one unit. Grow to a network.
The same systems at every scale, on the open protocol, so nothing you buy is replaced as you grow.
- 01
Base unit
One station or node, specified for this industry: instruments, power, enclosure and backhaul.
Build a station → - 02
Site
A surveyed, commissioned site with its timing, its links and the evidence file a buyer can audit.
Plan a site → - 03
Fleet
Many sites run as one service: one plan, one update path, one evidence trail, one service level.
Managed offers → - 04
Network
Fleets that federate with partner grids through the open protocol, owner by owner.
The open protocol →
08Solutions
What we deliver.
Each offer is designed, deployed and run on the open protocol by Nexus Observatory Inc.
data licence, professional services
Earth observation tasking, processing and change detection
SAR and optical acquisition planning, analysis-ready processing and change detection checked against field truth, delivered as STAC and COG.
How we deliver it →professional services, data licence
Drone survey and 3D site twins
Survey campaigns planned to the ground sample distance, photogrammetry and LiDAR, and site twins kept current.
How we deliver it →managed service, data licence
Environmental and permit monitoring
Emissions, water quality, noise and dust monitoring for permit conditions, with traceable calibration and evidence bundles.
How we deliver it →managed service, data licence
Biodiversity and habitat monitoring
Acoustic sensors, camera traps that exclude people, eDNA sampling logistics and EO habitat change for nature programmes and disclosures.
How we deliver it →09Service platforms
The platforms behind it.
The service platforms that build the systems this industry runs on.
Service platformSensors & instruments
Measurements that carry their own proof.Service platformEarth observation & GeoAI
The ground, measured and modelled.Service platformData & licensing
Grid data, licensed for your use.Service platformEdge compute & AI
Inference beside the instrument.Service platformConnectivity
Private 5G, AI-RAN and orbit, on site.Service platformField services
Survey to decommission, one accountable crew.Service platformDigital twins and simulation
Model the site before you build it.Service platformSpace and satellite systems
From orbit to the ground, on one protocol.10Standards and compliance
Drawn against the standards your auditors use.
Standards the systems are drawn against
- EU Directive 2024/2881 (ambient air quality)
- CEN/TS 17660 (sensor systems)
- US EPA FEM/FRM reference methods
- OASIS CAP 1.2 (outbound alerts)
- NWCG RAWS standards
- NFPA 1600
- 3GPP Rel-16/17 URLLC
- ISO 17757 (autonomous mining machinery safety)
- GISTM (tailings)
- ISA/IEC 62443
Regulation and authority
- Spectrum and sitingLicences, permits and siting are part of the plan, country by country. Country notes →
- Privacy and dataYour data stays yours, under the licence you choose. Privacy notice →
- SecurityHardware-rooted identity and signed updates on every device. Security →
11Questions buyers ask
Before you scope it.
Who sells, and who owns the data?
Nexus Observatory Inc. is the seller of record. The data your systems collect stays yours, under the licence you choose.
Do we have to buy hardware?
No. We deliver as a managed service, a data licence or a system you own.
Can we start small?
Yes. Start with one station or one site, then grow to a fleet and a network on the same open protocol, without replacing what you bought.
Which standards do the systems meet?
Each system is drawn against the open protocol and the standards it is composed from, listed on this page.
What happens after go-live?
We run the systems to a written service level, with monitoring, repair and an evidence trail, or train your team to run them.
Ready when you are.
Plan a deployment, configure a station or talk to sales. Every request reaches the team that answers it.
Plan a deploymentStation BuilderTalk to sales12Open 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
- OpenAQ
- Safecast
- AudioMoth
- FLUXNET and ICOS tools
- Global Forest Watch
Take part
13Earth and environment
Neighbouring industries.
IndustryClimate
The atmosphere, observed to the standard science needs.IndustryWater
Every catchment, gauged.IndustryOceans
From the coastline to the open ocean.IndustryAgriculture
Farm decisions on measured ground.Bring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for nature. The form names who receives your details.
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