Government and public safety
Alerting integration with the Common Alerting Protocol and cell broadcast
Software-heavy: sensor triggers feed an alert origination tool; the alert authority keeps every decision.
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Use casesWater: where it is deployed.
Deployment scenarios from the sector research and the use-case library, each with the kit, the data products and the proof a buyer asks for. 22 in all.
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Water · Use cases
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. Needs: river level and discharge, rainfall and snow, groundwater, water quality and inundation extent.
Use case
Street flood observatory
Ultrasonic depth sensors on poles report street-level water depth as open data and alerts. For cities, emergency management agencies and universities. Data products: street-level water depth time series and open data feed and alerts to emergency management and 311. Drawn against OGC SensorThings API 1.1 and Municipal open-data terms.
- Standards
- OGC SensorThings API 1.1 · Municipal open-data terms
Use case
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. For provinces and states, watershed boards. Data products: stage and flow time series and flood-warning inputs, labelled supplementary. Drawn against WMO hydrological observing practices and National gauge standards.
- Standards
- WMO hydrological observing practices · National gauge standards
Use case
Hybrid air-quality observatory
A few reference analysers and many low-cost nodes, with co-location calibration and an open-data feed. For cities, public-health units, school districts. Data products: air-quality index and hyperlocal maps, labelled supplementary, calibrated time series with quality flags and publication route to an open air-quality aggregator.
- Standards
- EU Directive 2024/2881 (ambient air quality) · CEN/TS 17660 (sensor systems) · US EPA FEM/FRM reference methods
Use case
Mine site private 5G and environmental monitoring
A standalone 5G core, radios across the pit and edge compute for autonomy, with dust, vibration, slope and weather sensing for environmental records. For mining companies and their contractors. Data products: autonomy and safety communications records and environmental monitoring records (dust, blast vibration, slope, tailings).
- Standards
- 3GPP Rel-16/17 URLLC · ISO 17757 (autonomous mining machinery safety) · GISTM (tailings) · ISA/IEC 62443
Use case
Deployable incident observatory
A trailer or vehicle with a cell on wheels, satellite backhaul, a mesh kit, a drone and weather and air-quality nodes for an incident base. For emergency management agencies, event organisers, utilities. Data products: incident-base connectivity and situational observations. Drawn against 3GPP LTE/NR, OASIS CAP 1.2 and National incident-management systems.
- Standards
- 3GPP LTE/NR · OASIS CAP 1.2 · National incident-management systems
Use case
Research-infrastructure gap node
A standardised observation package with a FAIR data pipeline, built to extend a research infrastructure’s coverage. For research infrastructures and universities. Data products: FAIR datasets delivered to research-infrastructure portals. Drawn against ICOS and eLTER quality levels, netCDF/CF and OGC SensorThings API.
- Standards
- ICOS and eLTER quality levels · netCDF/CF · OGC SensorThings API
Use case
Avalanche detection site
Doppler radar, infrasound and geophones with a snow and wind station, feeding a road or resort control room. For resorts and road authorities. Data products: release confirmation and road-closure inputs. Drawn against Cantonal and provincial avalanche-safety codes. It runs on the open Observatory Protocol, so other providers can join.
- Standards
- Cantonal and provincial avalanche-safety codes
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.
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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01Specialized fields
Each field has its own setup.
The measurements, radio, power and crew work differ from one field to the next. Open a field for its full stack, from order to operation.
Specialized fieldRivers and flood warning
River level and flow, rainfall and cameras at gauging stations, flood forecasts and warnings issued by the authority, on links that keep working when the river rises.The full field →Specialized fieldGroundwater and aquifers
Water levels, salinity and abstraction in monitoring and production wells, on battery endpoints and LoRaWAN, for aquifer management, licensing and drought planning.The full field →Specialized fieldDrinking water treatment and networks
Water quality from source to tap, pressure and flow by district, acoustic leak detection and treatment plant monitoring, on secure networks kept apart from plant control.The full field →Specialized fieldWastewater and sewer networks
Sewer levels and overflow events, pumping station status, treatment plant effluent and receiving water quality, to cut overflows and prove compliance.The full field →Specialized fieldLakes and reservoirs
Buoys and profilers for temperature, oxygen and algae, inflow and level, satellite views of blooms, so water suppliers and lake managers act before a bloom closes a source or a beach.The full field →02Use-case library
Worked use cases, kit to data product.
Each names who deploys it, the kit by device class, the data products it publishes and the standards it is drawn against. Open one for its full page.
Use case · low complexityStreet 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
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
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
Wildfire camera and fire-weather node
Pan-tilt and thermal cameras with edge inference on a ridgeline tower, co-located with a fire-weather station.- Who
- Electric utilities, provinces and states, counties.
- Data
- Smoke-detection alerts to dispatch, labelled supplementary; Public camera feeds; Fire-weather indices
Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weather
Private LTE on substations and poles for distribution automation, with weather nodes that inform public-safety power shutoff decisions.- Who
- Electric utilities.
- Data
- Fault location, isolation and service restoration telemetry; Distributed-energy control and islanding events; Wildfire-risk weather observations
Mine site private 5G and environmental monitoring
A standalone 5G core, radios across the pit and edge compute for autonomy, with dust, vibration, slope and weather sensing for environmental records.- Who
- Mining companies and their contractors.
- Data
- Autonomy and safety communications records; Environmental monitoring records (dust, blast vibration, slope, tailings)
Methane fenceline observatory
Point sensors on the fenceline with optical gas imaging and quantification, feeding leak-detection reports.- Who
- Oil and gas operators.
- Data
- Leak-detection survey records; Site-level emission estimates with uncertainty
Bioacoustic biodiversity observatory
Open-hardware acoustic recorders on solar power with low-power radio or satellite uplink, for species baselines.- Who
- Conservation organisations, parks, credit developers.
- Data
- Species occupancy and acoustic baselines
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.- Who
- Provinces and states, watershed boards.
- Data
- Stage and flow time series; Flood-warning inputs, labelled supplementary
Deployable incident observatory
A trailer or vehicle with a cell on wheels, satellite backhaul, a mesh kit, a drone and weather and air-quality nodes for an incident base.- Who
- Emergency management agencies, event organisers, utilities.
- Data
- Incident-base connectivity and situational observations
Research-infrastructure gap node
A standardised observation package with a FAIR data pipeline, built to extend a research infrastructure’s coverage.- Who
- Research infrastructures and universities.
- Data
- FAIR datasets delivered to research-infrastructure portals
State or provincial mesonet site
A full weather station on a solar-powered tower with soil sensors, one of a dense network run by a university.- Who
- Universities, provinces and states.
- Data
- Hyperlocal observations for forecasters and emergency managers
Avalanche detection site
Doppler radar, infrasound and geophones with a snow and wind station, feeding a road or resort control room.- Who
- Resorts and road authorities.
- Data
- Release confirmation and road-closure inputs
Highway corridor coverage and safety sensing
Small cells with satellite backhaul along an unserved highway, with road-weather and camera nodes.- Who
- Provinces and states, carriers.
- Data
- Coverage maps and road-condition observations
03Environment and climate
Environment and climate: deployment scenarios.
Measurement, reporting and verification for methane, carbon, biodiversity and water quality.
Environment and climateMethane fenceline and site-level continuous monitoring
Regulatory cadences in the EU and reporting levels in voluntary frameworks.The full use case →Environment and climateBiodiversity measurement with acoustics and camera traps
Acoustic baselines as a biodiversity data source; no registry methodology accepting acoustic data was found.The full use case →Environment and climateWildfire smoke and particulate health networks
Overlaps with cities and public safety.The full use case →04Government and public safety
Government and public safety: deployment scenarios.
Emergency management, wildfire, flood and early-warning delivery. The demand signal is data gaps and sustained operation, not hardware.
Government and public safetyNational GBON surface and upper-air network
WMO-grade stations reporting through WIS 2.0, funded through the systematic-observations financing pathway.The full use case →Government and public safetyWildfire camera network and fire-weather stations
Camera towers with edge inference and co-located fire-weather stations, utility- or agency-funded.The full use case →Government and public safetyUrban street-flood sensor network
Open-hardware depth sensors with open data and alerts to emergency management.The full use case →Deployable communications and sensing for incident command
A cell on wheels with satellite backhaul, mesh telemetry and environment nodes at the incident base.The full use case →05Across the industry
Across the classification.
Use cases mapped to the UN ISIC Rev. 4 sections this site covers.
- Network and reservoir monitoring
- Combined sewer overflow detection
- Landfill gas and leachate monitoring
06Proof
What buyers ask to see.
- Regulator acceptance, third-party verification, uncertainty quantification, reconciliation at the highest reporting level, open methods.
- Reporting uptime, data-format conformance, independently evaluated false-alarm rates, time to repair, references from a meteorological service or an emergency agency, bilingual alerting where required.
- Sensor calibration traceability, data completeness, regulator-format reporting
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