--- title: "Decommission: Field services | Nexus Observatory" description: "Decommission, inside Field services: decommission planning, electronic waste, battery end of life, transboundary waste movement and more." url: https://observatory.global/field-services/decommission/ publisher: Nexus Observatory Inc. updated: 2026-10-27 --- [Nexus Observatory](https://observatory.global/) / [Field services](https://observatory.global/field-services/) / **Decommission** # Removed, 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 us](https://observatory.global/contact/) Architecture [The protocol](https://observatory.global/protocol/specification/) **Technologies**: 9 **At the frontier**: 1 **Protocol functions**: 3 of 8 **Industries served**: 19 Reference design, drawn to scale · drag to turn · hover a part **01** What 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 ### Decommission planning Removing equipment, restoring the site and closing licences and leases. We design and deploy. ISO 55001:2024 · ISO 14001:2015 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) **02** Architecture ## 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 01**Join** Identity, attestation quote, signed policy. 02**Admit** Admitted for a stated scope, nothing wider. 03**Describe** What, where, how and by whom, with calibration. 04**Time** One clock across the grid, with its error bound. 05**Observe** Every value with quality and provenance. 06**Qualify** Tested against the specification, state on record. 07**Federate** Signed exchange across grids and trust domains. 08**Orchestrate** Software and configuration by signed plan. **03** On 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. **04** In the field ## Where this runs, sector by sector. 5 deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on decommission. [Government and public safety Deployable communications and sensing for incident commandA cell on wheels with satellite backhaul, mesh telemetry and environment nodes at the incident base.](https://observatory.global/sectors/public-safety/) [Agriculture Farm or cooperative agromet network with crop modelsCompact stations and soil probes feeding irrigation, disease and frost models.](https://observatory.global/sectors/agriculture/) [Sports and events Stadium neutral-host 5G with crowd and environment sensingA private operations slice beside the carriers' network, with heat, air and lightning sensing.](https://observatory.global/sectors/sports-events/) [Development and humanitarian Anticipatory-action hydromet nodesStations deployed through UN implementing entities of the systematic-observations financing pathway.](https://observatory.global/sectors/humanitarian/) [Transport Road weather information network for a transportation departmentPavement and visibility stations with maintenance decision support.](https://observatory.global/sectors/transport/) **05** Open 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 **06** The rest of the line ## Field services, area by area. [Field services SurveyGround, RF and power, before anything is chosen.](https://observatory.global/field-services/survey/) [Field services Install and commissionBuilt to the plan, accepted on test.](https://observatory.global/field-services/install-and-commission/) [Field services Managed SiteWe run the site; you use what it observes.](https://observatory.global/field-services/managed-site/) [Field services SupportResponse by plan, around the clock where contracted.](https://observatory.global/field-services/support/) [Field services TrainingYour team, trained on your site.](https://observatory.global/field-services/training/) ## Bring us the site. Survey, design, deployment and operation for decommission. The form names who receives your details. [Talk to us](https://observatory.global/contact/) [contact@observatory.global](mailto:contact@observatory.global?subject=Field%20services%3A%20Decommission) [Nexus Observatory](https://observatory.global/)**Field services** . 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