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Data & licensingResearch, commercial API, enterprise and government tiers, the licence of every source carried through to every product, routes from licensed to open release, and residency fixed by contract.
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Grid data, licensed for your use
Data & licensing delivers observations, derived layers and evidence in research, commercial, enterprise and government tiers, with the licence of every source carried through to every product and residency fixed by contract. Every product states its content, method, quality and licence up front, so a buyer knows what they are getting.
问题所在
Good data, unusable terms
Data that cannot be licensed cannot be used. Buyers need to know what each product contains, where it came from, what they may do with it and where it is stored, before they build on it. Terms that are unclear stop projects even when the data itself is excellent.
Key facts
- 元数据
- ISO 19115 · STAC · dataset cards
- Interfaces
- REST API · OGC SensorThings · bulk delivery
Components
- Pole-mounted edge gateway node
- Particulate monitoring station and sensor node
- Street small-cell pole with an air-quality node
- Radar stream gauge on a road bridge
- “AI tower in a box”
- Hardware security module, 1U, in an edge rack
- Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment
- Operations console with a video wall
Interfaces
- 工具
- SDI-12 · RS-485 / Modbus RTU · 4–20 mA
- Radio
- Ethernet · LTE-M / NB-IoT · LoRaWAN
- Time and position
- GNSS 1PPS
- 安全
- TPM 2.0
- Publishing
- MQTT
Where it works
- Where data lives, fixed by contract
- One interface for every product
- Routes from licensed to open release
In the story below
- The system, part by part
- Assembly
- Installation
- Deployment
- Connections
- 运行
- Failure and recovery
- Scale and federation
- What you get
Scenes · 18
Next steps
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Good data, unusable terms
Data that cannot be licensed cannot be used. Buyers need to know what each product contains, where it came from, what they may do with it and where it is stored, before they build on it. Terms that are unclear stop projects even when the data itself is excellent.
功能
Grid data, licensed for your use
Data & licensing delivers observations, derived layers and evidence in research, commercial, enterprise and government tiers, with the licence of every source carried through to every product and residency fixed by contract. Every product states its content, method, quality and licence up front, so a buyer knows what they are getting.
See ProductsThe system
One station, part by part
Before anything is installed, the station is laid out as its parts: instrument, logger and edge compute, secure element, GNSS timing, radio, power, enclosure, wiring, earthing, mast and foundation.
Assembly
Built and tested before it ships
Each part is fitted to the pole and the enclosure, wired through surge protection to one earth, powered and bench-tested until it signs its first reading.
Installation
Installed on site
The crew arrives with the tested kit: foundation, mast raised and guyed, instruments mounted, cables run in conduit, the enclosure fitted out and the site commissioned.
Deployment
Site after site, one design
The same station goes in at every site on the plan, each commissioned against the same checklist, until the field is covered.
Wiring
Signal, power and time, wired
Inside one site the instrument’s signal pair runs to the logger, solar charges the battery that feeds the load, GNSS time reaches the clock and the logger hands its records to the radio.
Residency
Where data lives, fixed by contract
Storage and processing locations are part of the contract, enforced by placement and recorded in the audit trail, so a regulator can see where each dataset has been. Residency is checked at every copy and every job, not just promised in the contract.
See ResidencyConnections
Backhaul, time and power
The relay carries every site to the edge over a point-to-point link, the grandmaster’s time reaches every clock, and each site keeps its power through the night.
运作方式
From instrument to product, provenance intact
Each observation arrives signed and quality-flagged. Products are built from catalogued inputs by versioned methods, so every value can be traced to its sources, its processing and its licence. When a source is corrected, every product built from it can be found and refreshed, and the change is recorded.
许可
The licence travels with the data
Each source’s licence is recorded at ingestion and propagated to everything derived from it. A product can only be released under terms its inputs allow. Mixed sources are tracked to the field, so a product never quietly inherits a restriction it cannot honour.
产品
Observations, derived layers and evidence
Products range from raw observations to gridded layers and evidence bundles for audits and claims, each with a dataset card describing content, method, quality and licence. Dataset cards describe each product’s coverage, latency and known limits, so a user can judge fitness for purpose before buying.
- 元数据
- ISO 19115 · STAC · dataset cards
API
One interface for every product
Every product is served through one API with consistent identifiers, time and space queries and licence checks, plus OGC SensorThings for live observations and bulk delivery for archives. Access is controlled per tier and per licence, and every request is logged for billing and audit.
- Interfaces
- REST API · OGC SensorThings · bulk delivery
发布
Routes from licensed to open release
Licensed data can move to open release on a schedule or a trigger written into the agreement, so funders and the public eventually benefit from what was collected. Each release is recorded with its date, its terms and the products it covers.
See PublicationOpen data and methodsHow it scales
More sources, same catalogue
New networks, satellites and partners add sources to the same catalogue; products scale by tiling and versioning rather than by new pipelines. A tier is a set of rights, not a separate copy. Adding a source adds coverage to every product that can use it, with its licence carried through.
Tiers
Research, commercial, enterprise, government
Tiers differ in rights, latency, support and residency, not in the truth of the data. Researchers, companies and agencies read the same record under the terms they need. Upgrading a tier changes what you may do, not which data you see, so analyses stay comparable.
See TiersWhat you get
Open tier, paid tiers, residency by contract
An open tier and dataset cards are public. Paid tiers and residency by contract are delivered by Nexus Observatory Inc., with usage and delivery reported on record. Usage and delivery are reported on record, so the terms are honoured and visible to both sides.
Request a data licenceNext step
Request a data licence
Tell us the products, the area and the use. We reply with the tier, the terms and a sample. A sample comes with its dataset card, so the decision is made on the real product, not on a description of it.
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More presentations
See it from every side.
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.
All presentationsIn depth
Use case Hybrid air-quality observatoryUse case Methane fenceline observatoryUse case Mine site private 5G and environmental monitoringISIC section · ISIC E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activitiesExplainers
Explainer · Environment and climate Environment and climate — SectorsMethane fencelines, acoustic biodiversity grids, flux towers, river sondes and smoke networks: an interactive explainer with the method behind every number.Stories
Story · Ocean The ocean below the surfaceMost of the ocean’s heat lies below what satellites can see. Profiling floats drifting at depth and surfacing to report have measured it routinely since the…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…Story · Dense city block The instrumented streetFour city blocks, read as an observing system: small cells on street poles, air-quality and heat sensors beside them, and an edge node that corrects, times…Places and networks
Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Offshore and oceanA moored met-ocean buoy and a profiling float report through a satellite pass overhead; the red link is the uplink.Guided tour · Guided 3D tour City blockSmall cells on street poles, air-quality nodes and heat sensors across four blocks, joined to an edge node that publishes open city data.Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Coastal portCoastal radar and AIS watch the approach, a met-ocean buoy reports the sea state, and crane-side edge compute closes the control loop on a private network.Network scene · IoT · Mesh IoT in the city: a street-light mesh and LoRaWANStreet-light controllers form a radio mesh that routes around a failed node to its border router, while meters and sensors report to a rooftop LoRaWAN gateway.Network scene · RAN · 5G NR Radio access in a city centreA three-sector macro site on the tallest roof and small cells on street poles: their coverage, interference and beams computed over the streets and buildings of the drawing.Heritage observatories
Heritage observatory · United States · 1992 ARM Southern Great Plains ObservatoryA field in Oklahoma crowded with radars, lidars, radiometers and flux towers, running since 1992 to measure how clouds and aerosols affect radiation.Heritage observatory · Equatorial Pacific Ocean · 1985 TAOSome seventy moorings along the equator across the Pacific, each reporting wind, temperature and salinity by satellite.Interactive tools
Interactive tool · Plan a site Field Deployment StudioTerrain, devices, coverage, viewshed, power and the best spot for a station, then a deployment request with the plan attached.01 · What this platform covers
Data & licensing, area by area.
Choose an area for its systems, standards, the industries it serves and how we deliver it.
01产品
Observations, derived layers and evidence.02Tiers
Research, commercial, enterprise, government.03API
One interface for every product.04发布
Routes from licensed to open release.05Residency
Where data lives, fixed by contract.02 · Built on the open protocol
One protocol under every platform.
Marked: the functions this platform leans on hardest. The protocol itself is open, so what you build here runs anywhere the protocol runs.
01 JOIN
02 ADMIT
03 DESCRIBE
04 TIME
05 OBSERVE
06 QUALIFY
07 FEDERATE
08 ORCHESTRATE
03 · Open and enterprise
Open by default. Enterprise by contract.
The open layer lives on the main site, free to use and build on. Enterprise services are delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc.
Open, on the main site
- Open tier
- Dataset cards
Enterprise, on this site
- Paid tiers
- Residency by contract
04 · Industries served
The industries that build on data & licensing.
Each industry has its own site: its use cases, its community and the enterprise path, with this platform among the systems behind it.
产业 GovernmentNational observing infrastructure, delivered as one programme.产业 城市The city, measured block by block.产业 Civil resilienceInfrastructure that reports before it fails.产业 社区Connectivity and observation the community owns.产业 人道主义Observation where the need is greatest and the grid is thinnest.产业 气候The atmosphere, observed to the standard science needs.产业 水Every catchment, gauged.产业 自然Habitat, measured without disturbing it.产业 海洋From the coastline to the open ocean.产业 农业Farm decisions on measured ground.产业 TransportCorridors that report their own conditions.产业 基础设施Assets that report their own condition.产业 MiningThe mine, measured from pit to tailings.产业 产业Plants and ports, sensed and connected.产业 研究Instruments for science, run like infrastructure.产业 EducationEvery school, a working observatory.产业 卫生Exposure, measured where people live.产业 Insurance and financeIndependent measurements for risk transfer.产业 活动Venues that sense and connect at peak load.05 · Every platform
Every platform, one architecture.
One platform for each technical area of our work, on the same protocol, the same data and the same design.
Protocol & GridSoftwareHardware & powerSensors & instrumentsConnectivityEdge compute & AIEarth observation & GeoAIField servicesData & licensingSpace and satellite systemsPositioning, navigation and timingSecurity and trustDigital twins and simulationDesign and integrationTest and qualificationOperations centreTraining and enablementFrontier labsBring us the site.
We bring the survey, the design and the crew. Nexus Observatory Inc. The form names who receives your details.
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