Field operations and lifecycle
Design packs
Drawings, single-line diagrams, layouts, BOMs and method statements issued for construction.
We design.
IEC 61082-1 (documents in electrotechnology) · IEC 81346-1 (reference designation)
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System designRequirements to architecture, drawn against the standards.
System design, inside Design and integration: design packs, configuration management, transport requirements for 5G xhaul, hybrid microgrid planning and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from IEC 61082-1 (documents in electrotechnology) to IEC 81346-1 (reference designation), and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.
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At a glance
Design packs
Drawings, single-line diagrams, layouts, BOMs and method statements issued for construction. In system design, part of Design and integration, the design packs and logistics layer holds design packs, drawn against IEC 61082-1 and IEC 81346-1 and used beside -48 V DC telecom power on the same sites.
The problem
Requirements to architecture, drawn against the standards
Large observing programmes buy from many suppliers. Without one design and one interface contract, every boundary becomes a dispute and every site a one-off. Programmes slip at the interfaces, not in the components, and nobody can say where the delay comes from.
Key facts
- Specification
- IEC 61082-1 (documents in electrotechnology) · IEC 81346-1 (reference designation)
- Specification
- ETSI EN 300 132-2
- Specification
- IEC TS 62898-1 (microgrid planning and specification)
- Specification
- ISO 10007
- Specification
- IEEE 802.1CM (TSN for fronthaul) · ITU-T GSTR-TN5G (transport network support of IMT-2020/5G)
Components
- Rugged shock-isolated 7U transit rack case, lids off
- Overhead line sensor on a distribution span
- Automatic weather station (AWS) to WMO siting practice
- Distribution pole transformer and meter cabinet
- Private LTE mast on a solar skid
- “AI tower in a box”
- Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment
- Operations console with a video wall
Interfaces
- Radio
- Ethernet
- Time and position
- PTP (IEEE 1588)
Where it works
- -48 V DC telecom power
- Configuration management
In the story below
- The system, part by part
- Assembly
- Installation
- Deployment
- Connections
- Operation
- Failure and recovery
- Scale and federation
- What you get
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Requirements to architecture, drawn against the standards
Large observing programmes buy from many suppliers. Without one design and one interface contract, every boundary becomes a dispute and every site a one-off. Programmes slip at the interfaces, not in the components, and nobody can say where the delay comes from.
What it does
Design packs
Drawings, single-line diagrams, layouts, BOMs and method statements issued for construction. In system design, part of Design and integration, the design packs and logistics layer holds design packs, drawn against IEC 61082-1 and IEC 81346-1 and used beside -48 V DC telecom power on the same sites.
- Specification
- IEC 61082-1 (documents in electrotechnology) · IEC 81346-1 (reference designation)
Microgrids and distribution
-48 V DC telecom power
The standard DC interface for radio and network equipment, with rectifiers and battery strings. In system design, part of Design and integration, the microgrids and distribution layer holds -48 V DC telecom power, drawn against ETSI EN 300 132-2. We build it into every site for system design against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- ETSI EN 300 132-2
Microgrids and distribution
Hybrid microgrid planning
Combining PV, wind, storage and generators into an isolated or grid-tied site microgrid. In system design, part of Design and integration, the microgrids and distribution layer holds hybrid microgrid planning, drawn against IEC TS 62898-1. We build it into every site for system design against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- IEC TS 62898-1 (microgrid planning and specification)
Design packs and logistics
Configuration management
Baselines and controlled changes for hardware, firmware and documents per site. In system design, part of Design and integration, the design packs and logistics layer holds configuration management, drawn against ISO 10007. We build it into every site for system design against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- ISO 10007
Time and place
When and where, on every record
Every record made for system design carries its time, from a clock disciplined by satellite time or a PTP grandmaster, with the position and siting record of the station that made it. When time or position degrades, the record for system design says so, and every user downstream sees the same warning.
Fronthaul, midhaul and backhaul
Transport requirements for 5G xhaul
Capacity, latency and sync requirements for each segment between radio and core. In system design, part of Design and integration, the fronthaul, midhaul and backhaul layer holds transport requirements for 5G xhaul, drawn against IEEE 802.1CM and ITU-T GSTR-TN5G. We build it into every site for system design against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- IEEE 802.1CM (TSN for fronthaul) · ITU-T GSTR-TN5G (transport network support of IMT-2020/5G)
Trust
Proved before it is trusted
A node joins a network for system design only after its hardware root of trust answers an attestation challenge. Its keys stay in secure hardware, its software arrives signed and every record it makes for system design carries a signature, so anyone downstream can check where a value came from.
Evidence
Traced to its specifications
We trace each part of system design to its specification: IEC 61082-1, IEC 81346-1 and IEEE 802.1CM. We keep the versions, configurations and test results of system design as signed records, so a buyer or an auditor can check what was delivered against what was specified.
- Standards
- IEC 61082-1 · IEC 81346-1 · IEEE 802.1CM · ITU-T GSTR-TN5G
Failure and recovery
When a node fails, the fleet knows first
When a node for system design goes silent or a sensor drifts, the node buffers its data and fails over to a second link where the site has one. The alert carries the evidence a responder needs, and the record for system design loses nothing and counts nothing twice.
How it scales
One base unit, repeated
A network for system design starts with one base node and the instruments it reads. A station adds power and radio, a site adds a relay and a fleet repeats the proven site, so capacity for system design grows by adding units, never by replacing what works.
What you get
Programmes, integration and management
The reference architecture and interface contracts are open. National observing network programmes, systems integration and programme management are contracted. Pricing follows the programme’s scale and phases, with one point of accountability from design to acceptance; the documentation, models and records stay yours at the end.
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System design, planned with you
Tell us the sites, the systems system design must work with and the outcome you need, with a map or a list of addresses if you have one. An engineer replies with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for system design, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need.
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Each opens as a full-screen presentation: deeper pages on the same subject, explainers, stories, guided tours of the places, network scenes and the observatories that came before.
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Story · Federation across agencies Many agencies, one pictureNo single agency observes everything it needs. Federation lets each keep its own systems and still share: common interfaces, common catalogues and common…Story · Resilient operations When the links failObserving systems matter most on the days infrastructure fails. Designing for that day means local autonomy, stored power, store-and-forward delivery and…Story · End to end An observation grid, end to endAn 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…Places and networks
Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Mountain valley siteA private 5G tower, an automatic weather station, a compact radar and a seismic vault on real alpine terrain, joined to an edge data centre that admits, times and publishes every…Guided tour · Guided 3D tour River basinWater-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.Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Ground stationAn 11 m class antenna and its companions on a fenced pad, with edge compute that turns each pass into catalogued products before the next one.Network scene · Backhaul · Fresnel zone Microwave backhaul across a river valleyAn 18 GHz hop from the church tower to a mast on the far side of the flood plain: its first Fresnel zone, clearance over the town and trees, and what a new building in the path…Network scene · Private 5G · Mining Private 5G in an open-pit mineA private network for haul trucks, drills and slope radar: a mast on the rim, a cell in the pit, the core at the plant, and coverage computed over the benches themselves.Heritage observatories
Heritage observatory · Global network of about 150 stations; USGS and EarthScope (formerly IRIS) partnership · 1984 Global Seismographic NetworkAbout 150 digital broadband seismic stations in some 80 countries, sending data to open archives within minutes.Heritage observatory · United States · 1921 Caltech Seismological LaboratoryA laboratory in Pasadena that gave earthquakes a number. The Richter magnitude scale of 1935 depended on one instrument type in many places, a lesson as relevant to networks today…Interactive tools
Interactive tool · Configure a station Station BuilderConfigure a station part by part in 3D, check the rules as you go and request a quote for the assembly.01What it is
Design packs and logistics.
Everything that happens on the ground across a site’s life: survey, permits, design packs, logistics, installation, acceptance, training, operations, maintenance, upgrades, decommission and recycling, done safely and recorded as evidence. The networks behind the radio: the 5G core and its functions, slicing and edge breakout, IMS voice and emergency calling, fronthaul, midhaul and backhaul over microwave, E-band, fibre, free-space optics and satellite, IP/MPLS and segment routing, IPv6, automation and intent, and the security that holds it together. How a remote site is powered, stored, distributed, cooled, sealed, tested, grounded, held up and kept safe, from a solar-powered sensor to a hybrid microgrid on a guyed mast. Each technology below carries what it is, what we do with it, and the standard it is drawn against.
Field operations and lifecycle
Configuration management
Baselines and controlled changes for hardware, firmware and documents per site.
We design, operate and maintain.
ISO 10007
Core and transport networks
Transport requirements for 5G xhaul
Capacity, latency and sync requirements for each segment between radio and core.
We design.
IEEE 802.1CM (TSN for fronthaul) · ITU-T GSTR-TN5G (transport network support of IMT-2020/5G)
Power, energy and ruggedisation
Hybrid microgrid planning
Combining PV, wind, storage and generators into an isolated or grid-tied site microgrid.
We design and deploy.
IEC TS 62898-1 (microgrid planning and specification)
Power, energy and ruggedisation
-48 V DC telecom power
The standard DC interface for radio and network equipment, with rectifiers and battery strings.
We design, deploy and maintain.
ETSI EN 300 132-2
02Architecture
Where it sits, and what it speaks.
System design draws on the spectrum below; the highlighted layers carry this area, and the protocol functions it speaks are marked.
5G core functions
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Network slicing, edge UPF and local breakout
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IMS, voice and mission-critical services
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Fronthaul, midhaul and backhaul
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Fibre and optical transport
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IP/MPLS, segment routing, SD-WAN and IPv6
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Network automation and intent
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Core security and resilience
5
Generation
9
Storage
9
Microgrids and distribution
9
Energy management and monitoring
7
Thermal design and ingress
8
Environmental and EMC testing
7
Lightning, grounding and structures
8
Safety and transport
7
01Join Identity, attestation quote, signed policy.
02Admit Admitted for a stated scope, nothing wider.
03Describe What, where, how and by whom, with calibration.
04Time One clock across the grid, with its error bound.
05Observe Every value with quality and provenance.
06Qualify Tested against the specification, state on record.
07Federate Signed exchange across grids and trust domains.
08Orchestrate Software and configuration by signed plan.
09Correct A correction marks what depends on it and publishes a new version.
10Exchange Products reach people and applications through versioned interfaces.
11Prove Signed proof receipts that an independent verifier can check.
12Exit and decommission An open exit path, and a record that closes.
03On the grid
Every site joins one observing grid.
The open networks on the grid today, over real relief and the geodesic cells we count them into. A site built here enrols into the same grid.
The observing grid
- Open instruments on the observing grid.
04In the field
Where this runs, sector by sector.
Deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on system design.
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.Government and public safetyAlerting integration with the Common Alerting Protocol and cell broadcast
Software-heavy: sensor triggers feed an alert origination tool; the alert authority keeps every decision.Communities and ruralInterim public-safety broadband where no national network exists
Private LTE or 5G for fire and medical services in territories without a national public-safety network.ScientificStream gauges
A low-cost tier beside national gauge networks.ScientificOcean and coastal low-cost buoy arrays
Satellite-backhauled wave buoys accepted in a national programme trial.Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use)Civil observatories supporting northern infrastructure
Weather and ionospheric observatories, communications and power at remote sites that surveillance programmes may share.05Open and enterprise
Open by default. Enterprise by contract.
The open counterpart lives on the main site for anyone to read and run. The enterprise service is designed, deployed and operated with you, under contract.
Open, on the main site
- Reference architecture
- Interface contracts
Enterprise, on this site
- National observing network programmes
- Systems integration
- Programme management
06The rest of the line
Design and integration, area by area.
Design and integrationEngineering
Design packs, bills of materials and drawings.Design and integrationMulti-vendor integration
Many suppliers, one interface contract.Design and integrationProgramme delivery
Many sites, one plan and one schedule.Design and integrationAcceptance
Tested against the plan, signed off on evidence.Bring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for system design. The form names who receives your details.
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