Resilience: infrastructure that reports before it fails: its open projects and data. The loop, step by step: 1. A valley site at first light. 2. Sensor, link, edge and console stand ready. 3. Cloud and wind sweep up the valley. 4. The station and the vault register it. 5. Each reading is stamped with time and place. 6. Signed packets hop over the radio link. 7. The relay forwards sealed packets untouched. 8. Signatures are checked before any model runs. 9. The edge model checks it against its limit. 10. The edge releases confirmed results only. 11. The alert reaches the operator console. 12. The console shows the evidence with the alert. 13. The whole chain is archived for audit. 14. Everything settles back to idle.
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Industry · Civil resilience Critical infrastructure and civil resilienceInfrastructure that reports before it failsSpecialized field · Civil resilience Critical site securityWhere attacks beginSpecialized field · Civil resilience Timing integrityHidden dependence on satellitesSpecialized field · Civil resilience Backup power at critical sitesThe outage is the testSpecialized field · Civil resilience Northern and Arctic observingA changing groundISIC section · ISIC O Public administration and defence; compulsory social securityISIC section · ISIC F ConstructionISIC section · ISIC J Information and communicationISIC section · ISIC C تولیدExplainers
Explainer · Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use) Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use) — SectorsLawful civil dual-use sensing only: northern observatories, satellite reach at high latitude, maritime safety and ice, and critical-infrastructure resilience.Explainer · Edge compute & AI Edge compute, explainedInstruments to an edge data centre, inference beside the sensor, only results upstream: raw bitrate, the latency budget, store and forward, measured boot, signed model plans and a…Explainer · Sensors & instruments Sensors and observing networks, explainedFrom a weather station’s siting class to a radar volume scan, a seismic vault and an ocean float: the measurement chain, quality control, calibration traceability and WIGOS…سکو Edge compute & AIThe archive is too lateسکو Sensors & instrumentsA number without its storyStories
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 · Forest and wildfire Seeing smoke soonerA fire is cheapest to fight in its first hour. Ridge-top cameras, weather in the stand and satellite hot spots each see it at different times and scales;…Story · Mountains and avalanche terrain Snowpack, slope and signalAvalanche forecasting reasons about the likelihood and size of avalanches on given terrain. The observations behind it come from a few stations in hard…Places and networks
Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Arctic stationA self-powered station on the ice: a microgrid, a low-orbit satellite terminal, a weather station, a GNSS monument and an edge node that holds data through the polar night.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 Wildfire forestCamera masts on the ridges, a weather station in the stand and a private cell: the red ground is what the ridge camera can see.Network scene · NTN · Satellite Satellite direct to device in a mountain valleyWhere the valley cell cannot reach, phones on the pass road connect straight to a low-orbit satellite, which relays through its feeder link to a gateway.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…Heritage observatories
Heritage observatory · Greenland · 1989 Summit Station, GreenlandA camp on the top of the Greenland ice sheet, 3,200 metres up and 400 kilometres from the nearest coast, where in 1993 drillers reached bedrock after 3,053 metres of ice.Heritage observatory · Norway · 1989 Zeppelin Observatory, Ny-ÅlesundA small observatory on a mountain at 79 degrees north, above the Arctic fjord town of Ny-Ålesund.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.01Open projects
What this community builds on.
Open hardware, software and data projects, named as references. Each keeps its own licence and its own governance.
- SmartICE
- SIKU
- Open Arctic weather data
02Open methods and templates
Every calculation, with a worked example.
Observatory templates for this industry, each a starting design you can read, run and adapt on the open protocol.
TemplateNorthern civil observatory
Weather, geodetic and space-weather instruments with communications and power at a remote northern site, built for civil use that infrastructure programmes may share.TemplateUtility 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.TemplateWave buoy coastal array
Low-cost moored wave buoys with satellite telemetry, deployed as an array along a coast or port approach.03Open data
Networks on the grid, with their licences.
The open observing networks on the grid, each shown with its source and licence, and the protocol that lets new ones join.
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Open networks
Instruments from open networks, on real relief. Earth and maps →
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منابع و مجوزها
Every dataset with its source and the terms it is used under. Data credits →
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The protocol
The open specification any instrument or network can implement. Read the protocol →
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