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Open projects, open methods and open templates this community builds on, with the licence of every source carried through.

Reference design, drawn to scale · drag to turn

1. Research · Open

   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.

2. Open · Field services

   Open with Field services

   Guides, Templates and Lifecycle: free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds eight services and Government buyers, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made. Every reading and every change leaves a record that can be checked later.

3. Open · Hardware & power

   Open with Hardware & power

   Device classes with 3D models and Reference designs (licence pending): free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds kit supply, Bills of materials and deployment plans and OEM co-engineering, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made.

4. Open · Connectivity

   Open with Connectivity

   Band tables and sources, Country guides and Coverage methods: free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds private Wireless as a Service, AI-RAN deployment and Spectrum route support, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made.

5. Open · Frontier labs

   Open with Frontier labs

   Benchmark methods and Pilot reports, published either way: free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds research pilots and Prototype engineering, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made.

6. Open · Data & licensing

   Open with Data & licensing

   Open tier and Dataset cards: free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds paid tiers and Residency by contract, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made. Service levels are written as numbers you can measure.

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. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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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13. Next step

    Plan a research deployment

    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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01Open projects

What this community builds on.

Open hardware, software and data projects, named as references. Each keeps its own licence and its own governance.

• Raspberry Shake community and FDSN
• AudioMoth (Open Acoustic Devices)
• BirdNET
• OpenMetBuoy
• ObsPy
• PhenoCam
• OpenDroneMap
• ICOS Carbon Portal tools
• eLTER DEIMS

02Open methods and templates

Every calculation, with a worked example.

Observatory templates for this industry, each a starting design you can read, run and adapt on the open protocol.

03Open data

Networks on the grid, with their licences.

The open observing networks on the grid, each shown with its source and licence, and the protocol that lets new ones join.

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Open networks

Instruments from open networks, on real relief.Earth and maps →

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Sources and licences

Every dataset with its source and the terms it is used under.Data credits →

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The protocol

The open specification any instrument or network can implement.Read the protocol →

Bring us the site.

Survey, design, deployment and operation for research. The form names who receives your details.