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Warning time, gained at the sensor
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. Needs: rainfall, river level and soil moisture, fire weather, smoke and ignition, ground movement and seismic activity, communications at the incident base and reporting uptime and data latency.
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Wildfire
A worked story shows how a public safety 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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River floods
A worked story shows how a public safety 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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Mountain avalanche
A worked story shows how a public safety 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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Airspace drones
A worked story shows how a public safety 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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Public safety: what must be measured
Rainfall, river level and soil moisture, fire weather, smoke and ignition, ground movement and seismic activity, communications at the incident base and reporting uptime and data latency. Each is measured by instruments sited to recognised practice, read by a base node that stamps, checks and signs every value.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What you get
Hydrometeorological and flood observing networks
Stream gauges, rain gauges, weather radar and automatic weather stations built to WMO practice, reporting through WIS 2.0 where the agency requires it. Delivered as hardware + software, managed service and build-operate-transfer, for national meteorological and hydrological services, river-basin agencies, utilities.
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Plan a public safety deployment
Tell us the sites, the measurements and the people who will use them. We reply with a design and a scope for public safety. 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
- WMO-No. 8 (CIMO Guide)
- WMO-No. 1160 (Manual on WIGOS, GBON)
- WMO WIS 2.0
- WMO-No. 306 (BUFR)
- OASIS CAP 1.2 (outbound alerts)
- NWCG RAWS standards
- NFPA 1600
- 3GPP Band 106
- IEC 61850
- IEEE 1547 / 2030.5
- NERC CIP
- WMO hydrological observing practices
- National gauge standards
- 3GPP LTE/NR
- OASIS CAP 1.2
- National incident-management systems
- National mesonet programme standards
- WMO-No. 8
- Cantonal and provincial avalanche-safety codes
- NTCIP 1204
03Explainer and stories
See it at work.
The industry in 3D, and field stories with the systems in each and the sources behind them.
ExplainerPublic safety, explained
Warning time, gained at the sensor.Open the explainer →Forest and wildfireSeeing 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 floodsRising 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 →Mountains and avalanche terrainSnowpack, slope and signal
Avalanche forecasting reasons about the likelihood and size of avalanches on given terrain. The observations behind it come from a few stations in hard…Read the story →Airspace and dronesA 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 →End to endAn observation grid, end to end
An 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…Read the story →Edge AI inferenceDeciding at the edge
A model that detects smoke, flooding or a fault is most useful where the frame is captured. Running inference at the edge cuts the time to a decision and…Read the story →04Terms
What people search for in this industry.
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