Energy: a line sensor clamped on a conductor, the sag changing with the load.
Nexus Observatory/
Sectors/
EnergySolar and wind resource assessment, grid edge and microgrids.
Plan with usScenariosThe protocol- Scenarios
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- Templates
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Energy: on the ground
Energy
Assets, grids and weather, joined.
Solar and wind resource assessment, grid edge and microgrids.
Transmission corridor
Transmission corridor
Five towers carry a line across open country to a substation.
Transmission corridor
Transmission corridor
The substation edge brings it all into the operator’s systems. Brings readings into the operator’s systems on an isolated, attested path.
Transmission corridor
Conductor sensor
A sensor on the conductor reports temperature and sag. Measures conductor temperature and sag so the operator can rate the line by the weather, not a fixed limit.
Transmission corridor
Transmission corridor
Wind across the line sets how much it can carry. Wind across the line and solar heating set the line’s real capacity.
Proof
What buyers ask to see.
- Calibration certificates from accredited laboratories
- Data recovery above the lender’s threshold
- Independent engineer sign-off
01How it works
A station joins, then the work is shared.
One station runs the protocol from first contact to publishing; the graph beside it shows how this sector’s use cases share kit and products.
State
- Unenrolled 00:00.0
- Discovered
- Attesting
- Identity issued
- Policy bound
- Plan staged
- Local ready
- Degraded
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Energy: use cases, kit and products
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Wildfire camera and fire-weather node
02
Remote microgrid observatory
03
Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weather
04
Bankable solar and wind resource station
Camera ptz
Camera thermal
Edge node
Weather station
Ptp microwave
Cellular modem
Solar array
Lattice tower
Smoke-detection alerts to dispatch, labelled supplementary
Public camera feeds
Fire-weather indices
Battery case
Energy meter
Ot gateway
Small cell
Satcom flat
Diesel offset and power-quality records
Solar-resource measurements
5g core
Security gateway
Fault location, isolation and service restoration telemetry
Distributed-energy control and islanding events
Wildfire-risk weather observations
Lidar
Resource datasets with data-recovery statistics
Energy: use cases, kit and products: functions in lifecycle order, and the objects they move. Each object is linked from the function that moves it first to every later function that moves it. The table view lists them all.
02Deployment scenarios
How the grid is deployed here.
From the sector research, each with the observatory template that serves it where one exists.
Hardware & power, Data & licensingBankable solar and wind measurement campaigns
Accepted standards, traceable calibration and transparent data handling.Protocol & Grid, Hardware & powerRemote-community microgrid monitoring
See communities.Protocol & Grid, ConnectivityUtility grid-edge private LTE
See industrial.03Proof
What buyers ask to see.
The evidence a procurement in this sector asks for, from the sector research. Each item is produced by the grid as a record, not written up afterwards.
- Calibration certificates from accredited laboratories
- Data recovery above the lender’s threshold
- Independent engineer sign-off
04Participation
Where communities can host the grid.
CommunityJoin the community
One account for every community, platform and the NXS Observatory app.Open dataUse the open networks
Public observing networks on their own terms, ready to reuse.HostingHost a station
Tell us about a site; we bring the survey, the design and the crew.05Lines
The lines that serve it.
The enterprise lines that carry the scenarios above, ranked by how many name their work.
PlatformProtocol & Grid
Your grid, on the open protocol.PlatformHardware & power
Built for the site, not the lab.PlatformSensors & instruments
Measurements that carry their own proof.PlatformConnectivity
Private 5G, AI-RAN and orbit, on site.PlatformEdge compute & AI
Inference beside the instrument.PlatformData & licensing
Grid data, licensed for your use.06Search terms and open work
How the sector names the problem.
The terms buyers and programmes use, and open projects in the space, named as factual references only. Naming a project is not an endorsement or a relationship.
Search terms solar resource assessment station wind measurement campaign lidar bankable data microgrid controller PSPS weather station
Open projects, for reference
- pvlib
- NREL SAM
- OpenOA
- OpenEMS
07Other sectors
Every sector, one grid.
Scenarios · 5Government and public safety
Warning starts with a measurement.Scenarios · 4Cities
The street, measured block by block.Scenarios · 5Communities and rural
Connectivity and sensing, locally owned.Scenarios · 5Industrial
Sites, ground and air, on one record.Scenarios · 5Agriculture
Soil, water and weather, field by field.Scenarios · 4Sports and events
A temporary grid for a crowd.Scenarios · 4Development and humanitarian
Data gaps close before the crisis.Scenarios · 6Scientific
Instruments that outlast the grant.Scenarios · 5Environment and climate
Ecosystems, observed without a gap.Scenarios · 4Transport
Corridors that report their own state.Scenarios · 4Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use)
Civil sensing only. Nothing else.Scenarios · 3Education
Learning to observe, on a real grid.Bring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for energy. The form names who receives your details.
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