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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.
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Indigenous north
A worked story shows how a research 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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Arctic
A worked story shows how a research 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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Ocean
A worked story shows how a research 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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Orbit
A worked story shows how a research 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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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.
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
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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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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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.
- WMO-No. 8 (CIMO Guide)
- WMO-No. 1160 (Manual on WIGOS, GBON)
- WMO WIS 2.0
- WMO-No. 306 (BUFR)
- FDSN station metadata and data formats
- IOOS and IMOS quality-control procedures
- FAIR data principles
- WMO hydrological observing practices
- National gauge standards
- ICOS and eLTER quality levels
- netCDF/CF
- OGC SensorThings API
- WMO-No. 8
- IGS RINEX
- INTERMAGNET
03Explainer and stories
See it at work.
The industry in 3D, and field stories with the systems in each and the sources behind them.
ExplainerResearch, explained
Instruments for science, run like infrastructure.Open the explainer →Remote northern communityObservation the community governs
In a remote northern community, an observing station is also a question of who owns the data, who decides how it is used and who benefits. Principles for…Read the story →ArcticInstruments at the edge of the cryosphere
The Arctic has warmed about three to four times faster than the global average, depending on the period and the dataset. The instruments that showed it are…Read the story →OceanThe ocean below the surface
Most of the ocean’s heat lies below what satellites can see. Profiling floats drifting at depth and surfacing to report have measured it routinely since the…Read the story →OrbitOrbits as infrastructure
Low orbits are fast and crowded, high orbits slow and spacious. Every choice of altitude is a trade between delay, footprint and how long the satellite…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 →Data provenance chainFrom 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 →04Terms
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