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Water: every catchment gauged: the site at a glance.

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Every catchment, gauged.

Stream gauges and rain networks, groundwater and water-quality sensing, flood observing for utilities and basin authorities, and Earth observation of reservoirs, snow and inundation, delivered with the completeness a hydrologist checks first.

Plan with usUse cases

Reference design, drawn to scale · drag to turn

01In the field

River basin

Water-level gauges along a river valley floor, a weather station and an edge node: the red isoline is the ground that lies within a few metres of the lowest point of the reach.

Open the tour

Farm

02Stories

How it works, in place.

Interactive stories with figures drawn to scale and every claim referenced.

All stories Place: Farmland Field to forecastA farm observes water: in the soil, in the crop and in the air above it. Crop water use is computed from weather with a method agronomists have shared for…Place: River basin and floods Rising water, counted in metresA 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…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…

03What it needs to observe

What this industry has to measure.

Measurement, reporting and verification for methane, carbon, biodiversity and water quality.

01

River level and discharge

02

Rainfall and snow

03

Groundwater

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Water quality

05

Inundation extent

04Use cases

Where it is deployed.

Deployment scenarios from the sector research and the use-case library.

Use case · low complexity

Street flood observatory

Ultrasonic depth sensors on poles report street-level water depth as open data and alerts.

Who
Cities, emergency management agencies and universities.
Data
Street-level water depth time series; Open data feed and alerts to emergency management and 311

OGC SensorThings API 1.1

Municipal open-data terms

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Use case · low to medium complexity

Hybrid 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

EU Directive 2024/2881 (ambient air quality)

CEN/TS 17660 (sensor systems)

US EPA FEM/FRM reference methods

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Use case · high complexity

GBON gap-filler station

A WMO-grade surface station, optional upper-air ground station and a WIS 2.0 node, built to report reliably where the global basic observing network has gaps.

Who
National meteorological and hydrological services, through their implementing entities.
Data
Hourly and sub-hourly BUFR observations to WIS 2.0; National open data and verification feeds; Reporting-uptime evidence

WMO-No. 8 (CIMO Guide)

WMO-No. 1160 (Manual on WIGOS, GBON)

WMO WIS 2.0

WMO-No. 306 (BUFR)

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Environment and climate

Methane fenceline and site-level continuous monitoring

Regulatory cadences in the EU and reporting levels in voluntary frameworks.

Environment and climate

Biodiversity measurement with acoustics and camera traps

Acoustic baselines as a biodiversity data source; no registry methodology accepting acoustic data was found.

Environment and climate

Wildfire smoke and particulate health networks

Overlaps with cities and public safety.

Every use case

05Solutions

What we deliver.

Each offer is designed, deployed and run on the open protocol by Nexus Observatory Inc.

managed service, data licence

Sensing as a Service

Observation networks designed, installed, operated and maintained for a monthly fee: weather, hydromet, air, seismic and environmental stations, with data delivered under a licence.

How we deliver it →

hardware + software, managed service, build-operate-transfer

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.

How we deliver it →

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 →

managed service, data licence

Structural and ground-movement monitoring

GNSS, InSAR, tilt, strain and fibre sensing on bridges, dams, slopes, tailings and pipelines, with alert thresholds set by the owner.

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 →

06Service platforms

The platforms behind it.

6 of the network’s service platforms build the systems this industry runs on.

Service platform

Sensors & instruments

Measurements that carry their own proof.
Service platform

Field services

Survey to decommission, one accountable crew.
Service platform

Connectivity

Private 5G, AI-RAN and orbit, on site.
Service platform

Data & licensing

Grid data, licensed for your use.
Service platform

Earth observation & GeoAI

The ground, measured and modelled.
Service platform

Digital twins and simulation

Model the site before you build it.

07Open 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
  • FloodNet NYC open hardware
  • UCAR 3D-PAWS
  • Open CAP editors
  • WIS2 reference nodes (wis2box)
  • Sensor.Community

Take part

08Earth and environment

Neighbouring industries.

Industry

Climate

The atmosphere, observed to the standard science needs.
Industry

Nature

Habitat, measured without disturbing it.
Industry

Oceans

From the coastline to the open ocean.
Industry

Agriculture

Farm decisions on measured ground.

Bring us the site.

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

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Every catchment, gauged.

Reference design, drawn to scale · drag to turn