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Instruments for science, run like infrastructure
Research site and instrument services, observing networks that fill gaps in the global record, data with provenance from the first sample, and qualification so a result can be reproduced on another instrument. Needs: gaps in the global observing record, instrument uptime at remote sites, calibration traceability, data provenance and open publication.
Community
Citizen seismology node
A compact seismograph on a network connection, registered in an open seismic data network. Built with schools, hobbyists, agencies, and open to participation. Volunteers and local partners install, host and read stations alongside our crews; their data carries the same metadata and quality flags as every other source.
Community
Bioacoustic biodiversity observatory
Open-hardware acoustic recorders on solar power with low-power radio or satellite uplink, for species baselines. Built with conservation organisations, parks, credit developers, and open to participation. Volunteers and local partners install, host and read stations alongside our crews; their data carries the same metadata and quality flags as every other source.
Community
Wave buoy coastal array
Low-cost moored wave buoys with satellite telemetry, deployed as an array along a coast or port approach. Built with ports, coastal agencies, surf and fishing communities, and open to participation. Volunteers and local partners install, host and read stations alongside our crews; their data carries the same metadata and quality flags as every other source.
Community
Low-cost stream gauge network
Radar or pressure level sensors with low-power radio and solar power, as a cheaper tier beside a national gauge network. Built with provinces and states, watershed boards, and open to participation. Volunteers and local partners install, host and read stations alongside our crews; their data carries the same metadata and quality flags as every other source.
What must be measured
Research: what must be measured
Gaps in the global observing record, instrument uptime at remote sites, calibration traceability, data provenance and open publication. 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.
How it works
From instrument to record, in one chain
An instrument reads; the base node checks the value, stamps time and place, signs it and sends it over the link the site has: cellular, LoRaWAN, private 5G or satellite. The edge verifies the signature before admitting it, and the core catalogues it with its metadata, quality flag and licence.
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.
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.
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.
What you get
Research site and instrument services
Site power, connectivity, timing and operations for telescopes, flux towers and research stations. Delivered as managed service and professional services, for universities, research infrastructures, space agencies. Scale: Global research sites. Service levels are written as numbers you can measure on your own dashboard.
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Tell us the sites, the measurements and the people who will use them. We reply with a design and a scope for research. 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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01Why a community
Observation is built by many hands.
Engineers, operators, researchers and residents each see a part of the system. The community puts the parts in one place.
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Join
One account for every community, every platform and the NXS Observatory app.Create account →
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Contribute
Methods, templates, field notes and data, reviewed in the open and credited to the people who made them.What is open →
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Build together
Groups form around use cases, regions and technologies, proposed by members.Use cases →
02Code of conduct
One standard for every space we host.
- RespectDisagree with ideas, never with people. No harassment, in any form.
- EvidenceClaims carry their source. Measurements carry their method.
- CreditWork is credited to the people who did it, under the licence they chose.
- SafetyNo instructions that put people, sites or networks at risk.
- PrivacyNo one’s personal data is posted without their consent.
- AuthorityOfficial warnings and decisions stay with the bodies that hold them.
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