Field operations and lifecycle
Decommission planning
Removing equipment, restoring the site and closing licences and leases.
We design and deploy.
ISO 55001:2024 · ISO 14001:2015
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DecommissionRemoved, recycled, recorded.
Decommission, inside Field services: decommission planning, electronic waste, battery end of life, transboundary waste movement and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from ISO 55001:2024 to ISO 14001:2015, and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.
Plan with usArchitectureThe protocol- Technologies
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- At the frontier
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- Protocol functions
- 3 of 8
- Industries served
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Reference design, drawn to scale · drag to turn · hover a part
01What it is
Decommission and recycling.
Everything that happens on the ground across a site’s life: survey, permits, design packs, logistics, installation, acceptance, training, operations, maintenance, upgrades, decommission and recycling, done safely and recorded as evidence. Each technology below carries what it is, what we do with it, and the standard it is drawn against.
Field operations and lifecycle
Electronic waste
Collection and treatment of electrical and electronic equipment through approved channels.
We deploy.
Directive 2012/19/EU (WEEE) · EN 50625 series (WEEE treatment) · Canadian provincial extended producer responsibility programmes
Field operations and lifecycle
Battery end of life
Return, recycling and documentation for lithium and lead-acid batteries.
We deploy.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 (batteries) · UN 38.3 (for transport of used cells)
Field operations and lifecycle
Transboundary waste movement
Controls on moving hazardous and electronic waste between countries.
We deploy.
Basel Convention
Field operations and lifecycle
Hazardous substances and material declarations
Knowing what each product contains for safe recycling.
We design.
Directive 2011/65/EU (RoHS) · IEC 62474 (material declaration)
Field operations and lifecycle
Media sanitisation
Erasing or destroying storage so no data leaves with retired equipment.
We deploy.
NIST SP 800-88 (media sanitisation)
Frontier · Field operations and lifecycle
Digital product passports
Machine-readable records of materials, repair and recycling per product.
We design.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 (Ecodesign for Sustainable Products)
Field operations and lifecycle
Desktop study and siting screen
Ranking candidate sites from terrain, hazards, access, power, land use and coverage before anyone travels.
We design and operate.
OGC API – Processes (siting runs) · Analytic Hierarchy Process (Saaty)
Field operations and lifecycle
RF survey and spectrum scan
Measuring existing signals, interference and link paths at the candidate site.
We design, deploy and operate.
ITU-R SM.1880 (spectrum occupancy measurement) · ITU-R P.530 (line-of-sight links)
02Architecture
Where it sits, and what it speaks.
Decommission 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.
Survey and site acquisition
8
Permitting and approvals
7
Design packs and logistics
8
Installation, commissioning and acceptance
9
Operations, NOC, support and training
8
Maintenance, spares, refurbishment and upgrades
10
Decommission and recycling
7
Health, safety and evidence records
9
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, filtered to the solid earth domain this area serves. 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 decommission.
Government and public safetyDeployable communications and sensing for incident command
A cell on wheels with satellite backhaul, mesh telemetry and environment nodes at the incident base.AgricultureFarm or cooperative agromet network with crop models
Compact stations and soil probes feeding irrigation, disease and frost models.Sports and eventsStadium neutral-host 5G with crowd and environment sensing
A private operations slice beside the carriers’ network, with heat, air and lightning sensing.Development and humanitarianAnticipatory-action hydromet nodes
Stations deployed through UN implementing entities of the systematic-observations financing pathway.TransportRoad weather information network for a transportation department
Pavement and visibility stations with maintenance decision support.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
- Guides
- Templates
- Lifecycle
Enterprise, on this site
- Eight services
- Government buyers
06The rest of the line
Field services, area by area.
Field servicesSurvey
Ground, RF and power, before anything is chosen.Field servicesInstall and commission
Built to the plan, accepted on test.Field servicesManaged Site
We run the site; you use what it observes.Field servicesSupport
Response by plan, around the clock where contracted.Field servicesTraining
Your team, trained on your site.Bring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for decommission. The form names who receives your details.
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