Data, software and interoperability
Publish-subscribe telemetry
Brokered telemetry from gateways and nodes with sessions and quality-of-service levels.
We design, integrate and operate.
OASIS MQTT 5.0
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TiersResearch, commercial, enterprise, government.
Tiers, inside Data & licensing: publish-subscribe telemetry, message queuing between services, event envelopes, event-driven API descriptions and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from OASIS MQTT 5.0 to OASIS AMQP 1.0 (ISO/IEC 19464), and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.
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01What it is
Ingest and streaming.
How observations move from the edge into stores, catalogues and APIs with their provenance, licence and residency attached, and how they interoperate through open standards and the open Observatory Protocol. Each technology below carries what it is, what we do with it, and the standard it is drawn against.
Data, software and interoperability
Message queuing between services
Reliable, typed messaging between platform services.
We design and integrate.
OASIS AMQP 1.0 (ISO/IEC 19464)
Data, software and interoperability
Event envelopes
A common envelope for events so producers and consumers agree on source, type and time.
We design and integrate.
CloudEvents 1.0 (CNCF)
Data, software and interoperability
Event-driven API descriptions
Machine-readable contracts for streams and topics.
We design and integrate.
AsyncAPI 3.0
Data, software and interoperability
Meteorological data exchange
Pub-sub distribution of observations and products between weather services.
We design, integrate and operate.
WMO Information System 2.0 (WIS2) · WMO-No. 306 Manual on Codes (BUFR)
Data, software and interoperability
Schemas and data contracts
Validated payload schemas versioned with the producers that emit them.
We design and operate.
JSON Schema 2020-12
Data, software and interoperability
Timestamps and time zones
Unambiguous time encoding and event-time versus ingest-time handling.
We design.
ISO 8601-1:2019 · IETF RFC 3339
Data, software and interoperability
Edge filtering and store-and-forward
Reducing, buffering and replaying data at the edge when links are poor.
We design, integrate and operate.
IETF RFC 9171 (Bundle Protocol v7)
Data, software and interoperability
Time-series stores
Stores optimised for high-rate, append-mostly observations with downsampling and retention.
We design, integrate and operate.
OGC TimeseriesML 1.0 · OGC WaterML 2.0 Part 1
02Architecture
Where it sits, and what it speaks.
Tiers draws on 1 domain and 8 layers of the spectrum; the highlighted layers carry this area. It speaks 3 of the protocol’s 8 core functions.
Ingest and streaming
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Storage and data lakes
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Metadata, provenance and catalogues
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Open standards and interoperability
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APIs and SDKs
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Licensing, residency and governance
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Digital twins and observability
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Open protocol interfaces and federation
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01JoinIdentity, attestation quote, signed policy.
02AdmitAdmitted for a stated scope, nothing wider.
03DescribeWhat, where, how and by whom, with calibration.
04TimeOne clock across the grid, with its error bound.
05ObserveEvery value with quality and provenance.
06QualifyTested against the specification, state on record.
07FederateSigned exchange across grids and trust domains.
08OrchestrateSoftware and configuration by signed plan.
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.
04In the field
Where this runs, sector by sector.
5 deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on tiers.
Government and public safetyUrban street-flood sensor network
Open-hardware depth sensors with open data and alerts to emergency management.Communities and ruralIndigenous-owned community cellular
Unused 800 MHz and 1900 MHz spectrum through an access-licensing framework with a priority window for Indigenous applicants.ScientificCitizen seismology and school seismographs
Compact seismographs feeding open data networks.Environment and climateBiodiversity measurement with acoustics and camera traps
Acoustic baselines as a biodiversity data source; no registry methodology accepting acoustic data was found.EnergyBankable solar and wind measurement campaigns
Accepted standards, traceable calibration and transparent data handling.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
- Open tier
- Dataset cards
Enterprise, on this site
- Paid tiers
- Residency by contract
06The rest of the line
Data & licensing, area by area.
Data & licensingProducts
Observations, derived layers and evidence.Data & licensingAPI
One interface for every product.Data & licensingPublication
Routes from licensed to open release.Data & licensingResidency
Where data lives, fixed by contract.Bring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for tiers. The form names who receives your details.
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