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Conformance: a node run through the protocol’s test suite, each step attested from evidence. The loop, step by step: 1. A device under test faces a suite of checks. 2. Sensor, link, edge and console stand ready. 3. The suite sends the first protocol messages. 4. Each reading is stamped with time and place. 5. Each response is captured and timed. 6. The relay forwards sealed packets untouched. 7. The edge verifies every signature first. 8. Responses are compared with the standard. 9. Only a confirmed result leaves the edge. 10. One check fails on a timer value. 11. The vendor fixes it and the suite reruns. 12. Instruments confirm the response took effect. 13. The screen turns all green and is stamped. 14. The alert arrives with its evidence attached. 15. The whole chain is archived for audit. 16. Everything settles back to idle.

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A device under test faces a suite of checks

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Run the protocol suite, publish the result.

Conformance, inside Test and qualification: conformance testing, base station and device conformance testing, conformance testing. Every item is traced to its specification, from Observatory Protocol specification (open) to OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing (CITE) approach, and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.

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At a glance

Conformance testing

Tools and test suites that check devices and software against the protocol. In conformance, part of Test and qualification, the open protocol interfaces and federation layer holds conformance testing, drawn against Observatory Protocol specification and OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing approach.

مسئله

Run the protocol suite, publish the result

Datasheets promise performance in conditions nobody’s site will see. Buyers, auditors and regulators need results they can check, from tests they can repeat. Without independent, repeatable tests, every comparison between suppliers is a comparison between marketing documents; qualification replaces claims with measured results, published either way.

Key facts

Specification
Observatory Protocol specification (open) · OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing (CITE) approach
Specification
O-RAN WG4 Conformance Test Specification
Specification
3GPP TS 38.141-1 and 38.141-2 (BS conformance) · 3GPP TS 38.521 (UE conformance)
استانداردها
Observatory Protocol specification · OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing approach · 3GPP TS 38.141-1 and 38.141-2 · 3GPP TS 38.521

Components

  • Rugged shock-isolated 7U transit rack case, lids off
  • Automatic weather station (AWS) to WMO siting practice
  • Particulate monitoring station and sensor node
  • Compact X-band weather radar / ISAC sensing node on a lattice tower top
  • Street small-cell pole with an air-quality node
  • “AI tower in a box”
  • Hardware security module, 1U, in an edge rack
  • Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment

Interfaces

Radio
Ethernet
Time and position
PTP (IEEE 1588)

In the story below

  1. The system, part by part
  2. Assembly
  3. Installation
  4. Deployment
  5. Connections
  6. Operation
  7. Failure and recovery
  8. Scale and federation
  9. What you get

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  1. Test and qualification · Conformance

    Run the protocol suite, publish the result

    Datasheets promise performance in conditions nobody’s site will see. Buyers, auditors and regulators need results they can check, from tests they can repeat. Without independent, repeatable tests, every comparison between suppliers is a comparison between marketing documents; qualification replaces claims with measured results, published either way.

  2. What it does

    Conformance testing

    Tools and test suites that check devices and software against the protocol. In conformance, part of Test and qualification, the open protocol interfaces and federation layer holds conformance testing, drawn against Observatory Protocol specification and OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing approach.

    Specification
    Observatory Protocol specification (open) · OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing (CITE) approach
  3. Testing, integration and security

    Conformance testing

    Testing that an O-RU or O-DU implements the fronthaul specification correctly. In conformance, part of Test and qualification, the testing, integration and security layer holds conformance testing, drawn against O-RAN WG4 Conformance Test Specification. We build it into every site for conformance against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.

    Specification
    O-RAN WG4 Conformance Test Specification
  4. Time and place

    When and where, on every record

    Every record made for conformance 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 conformance says so, and every user downstream sees the same warning.

  5. RAN planning, optimisation and assurance

    Base station and device conformance testing

    RF and protocol tests used at acceptance and after upgrades. In conformance, part of Test and qualification, the RAN planning, optimisation and assurance layer holds base station and device conformance testing, drawn against 3GPP TS 38.141-1 and 38.141-2 and 3GPP TS 38.521.

    Specification
    3GPP TS 38.141-1 and 38.141-2 (BS conformance) · 3GPP TS 38.521 (UE conformance)
  6. اعتماد

    Proved before it is trusted

    A node joins a network for conformance 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 conformance carries a signature, so anyone downstream can check where a value came from.

  7. شواهد

    Traced to its specifications

    We trace each part of conformance to its specification: Observatory Protocol specification, OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing approach and 3GPP TS 38.141-1 and 38.141-2. We keep the versions, configurations and test results of conformance as signed records, so a buyer or an auditor can check what was delivered against what was specified.

    استانداردها
    Observatory Protocol specification · OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing approach · 3GPP TS 38.141-1 and 38.141-2 · 3GPP TS 38.521
  8. Operations

    Every node watched, every incident closed

    The operations console shows every node of a network for conformance with its state, its plan and its evidence. An alert arrives with its data and a runbook, acknowledging it opens a work order, and an incident for conformance closes only when the operator records the cause and verifies the fix.

  9. Failure and recovery

    When a node fails, the fleet knows first

    When a node for conformance 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 conformance loses nothing and counts nothing twice.

  10. تازه‌ها

    Updates in rings, with rollback

    Software and configuration reach a fleet for conformance in rings: one canary site first, then a few, then all, each ring gated on health and data completeness. A failed gate stops the wave, and each node for conformance returns to its last good release without a site visit.

  11. How it scales

    One base unit, repeated

    A network for conformance 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 conformance grows by adding units, never by replacing what works.

  12. What you get

    Qualification and the works-with programme

    The conformance tool and test plans are open. Device and software qualification, the works-with programme and field trial management are contracted. Works-with testing gives makers a recognised way to show their products join any grid built on the specification, with results published either way.

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  13. Next step

    Conformance, planned with you

    Tell us the sites, the systems conformance 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 conformance, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need.

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All presentations

In depth

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Explainers

Explainer · Industrial IndustrialBlast vibration at the pit, fire weather at the grid edge, methane at the fenceline and tailings movement from GNSS.Explainer · Scientific Scientific, explainedسکو Test and qualificationClaims are easy; evidence is rareسکو ConnectivityPublic networks were not built for this site

Stories

Story · Overview What changes by 2030Six shifts will reshape how the Earth is observed before the decade ends: networks that sense, models that forecast, foundation models that read imagery,…Story · Orbit Orbits as infrastructureLow orbits are fast and crowded, high orbits slow and spacious. Every choice of altitude is a trade between delay, footprint and how long the satellite…Story · Timing and PNT Time as infrastructureA 5G cell must hold its phase within 3 µs of its neighbours, ±1.5 µs of a common reference; a synchrophasor’s one per cent vector error leaves room for only…

Places and networks

Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Orbit viewGround tracks of a sun-synchronous imager and three shells of a broadband constellation, computed from their orbits over a rotating Earth.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 · 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.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.

Heritage observatories

Heritage observatory · Geostationary orbit over the Americas · 1975 GOESSince 1975 a succession of NOAA satellites has hovered 35,786 kilometres above the equator, watching the same hemisphere without a break.Heritage observatory · Low Earth orbit (launched from Cape Canaveral) · 1960 TIROS-1On 1 April 1960 a 120-kilogram drum with two television cameras was launched from Cape Canaveral and sent back the first pictures of clouds from space.

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.

01چیستی آن

Open protocol interfaces and federation.

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. The radio access network from site to spectrum: macro, small cells, DAS and repeaters, massive MIMO, NR bands and TDD synchronisation, NR features such as RedCap, positioning and sidelink, private and shared networks, Wi-Fi coexistence, 6G and ISAC, and the planning and assurance that keep it working. Disaggregated, software-defined and AI-assisted radio access: the O-RAN architecture and its open interfaces, 7.2x fronthaul, RAN intelligent controllers with xApps and rApps, SMO and O-Cloud, accelerated L1, shared GPU infrastructure for RAN and AI, AI/ML in the 3GPP air interface, energy saving, and the test and integration work that makes multi-supplier RAN deployable. Each technology below carries what it is, what we do with it, and the standard it is drawn against.

Data, software and interoperability

Conformance testing

Tools and test suites that check devices and software against the protocol.

We design, integrate and operate.

Observatory Protocol specification (open) · OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing (CITE) approach

5G and 6G radio access networks

Base station and device conformance testing

RF and protocol tests used at acceptance and after upgrades.

We integrate and support.

3GPP TS 38.141-1 and 38.141-2 (BS conformance) · 3GPP TS 38.521 (UE conformance)

AI-RAN and Open RAN

Conformance testing

Testing that an O-RU or O-DU implements the fronthaul specification correctly.

We integrate and support.

O-RAN WG4 Conformance Test Specification

02Architecture

Where it sits, and what it speaks.

Conformance draws on the spectrum below; the highlighted layers carry this area, and the protocol functions it speaks are marked.

Meteorology (WMO No. 8 classes)

10

Air quality and atmospheric composition

7

Hydrology and water

7

Ocean and coastal

7

Seismic, geodetic, geomagnetic and radiation

8

RF, acoustics, cameras and radar

9

Calibration, metadata and quality control

7

Frontier and research

6

Macro, small cells, DAS and repeaters

9

Massive MIMO and beamforming

7

NR bands, duplexing and synchronisation

9

NR features: RedCap, positioning, sidelink and verticals

9

Private networks and RAN sharing

7

Wi-Fi coexistence and convergence

8

6G and integrated sensing and communication

7

RAN planning, optimisation and assurance

6

01پیوستن Identity, attestation quote, signed policy.

02Admit Admitted for a stated scope, nothing wider.

03توصیف 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

  1. Open instruments on the observing grid.

04In the field

Where this runs, sector by sector.

Deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on conformance.

شهرها

Hybrid air-quality network

Reference analysers plus calibrated low-cost nodes; low-cost sensors alone do not meet regulatory requirements.
کشاورزی

Smallholder and parametric-insurance station networks

Station density and tamper evidence for index insurance.
انرژی

Bankable 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

  • Conformance tool
  • Test plans

Enterprise, on this site

  • Device and software qualification
  • Works-with programme
  • Field trial management

06The rest of the line

Test and qualification, area by area.

Test and qualification

Lab testing

Environmental, RF, power and EMC, on the bench.
Test and qualification

Field trials

On a real site, against a written plan.
Test and qualification

Interoperability events

Many suppliers, one test plan.
Test and qualification

شواهد

Every result, signed and kept.

Bring us the site.

Survey, design, deployment and operation for conformance. The form names who receives your details.

Talk to usAsk for a quote

Run the protocol suite, publish the result.

Conformance, inside Test and qualification: conformance testing, base station and device conformance testing, conformance testing. Every item is traced to its specification, from Observatory Protocol specification (open) to OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing (CITE) approach, and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.

01چیستی آن

02Architecture

Where it sits, and what it speaks.

03On the grid

04In the field

Where this runs, sector by sector.

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
    Enterprise, on this site
      06The rest of the line

      Bring us the site.