Field operations and lifecycle
Civil works and foundations
Footings, anchors, cable routes and enclosures built to the design pack.
We deploy.
ANSI/TIA-222-I · CSA S37:24
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Install and commissionBuilt to the plan, accepted on test.
Install and commission, inside Field services: civil works and foundations, structured cabling and fibre, bonding and grounding installation, PV and power commissioning and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from ANSI/TIA-222-I to CSA S37:24, 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
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- Industries served
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Reference design, drawn to scale · drag to turn · hover a part
01What it is
Installation, commissioning and acceptance.
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
Structured cabling and fibre
Copper and fibre installed, labelled and tested.
We deploy and maintain.
ANSI/TIA-568.2-D · ISO/IEC 11801-1 · IEC 61280-4-1 (fibre attenuation)
Field operations and lifecycle
Bonding and grounding installation
Grounding systems installed and measured before equipment is energised.
We deploy and maintain.
ANSI/TIA-607-D · IEEE 81
Field operations and lifecycle
PV and power commissioning
Inspection and test of the PV array, storage and power system with records.
We deploy and maintain.
IEC 62446-1 (PV testing, documentation and maintenance)
Field operations and lifecycle
RF commissioning
Antenna alignment, sweep, return loss and passive intermodulation checks.
We deploy and maintain.
IEC 62037 series (passive intermodulation)
Field operations and lifecycle
Instrument and control commissioning
Loop checks, configuration and function tests of instruments and controllers.
We deploy and maintain.
IEC 62337 (commissioning of electrical, instrumentation and control systems)
Field operations and lifecycle
Node enrolment and attestation at first boot
Each node enrols, attests and receives its first signed plan before going live.
We deploy and operate.
Observatory Protocol specification (Nexus Consortium) · IETF RFC 9334
Field operations and lifecycle
Site and integration acceptance testing
Agreed tests on site and end to end, signed off against acceptance criteria.
We deploy and operate.
IEC 62381 (SAT and SIT)
Field operations and lifecycle
Sensor acceptance and intercomparison
Comparing new instruments with a travelling or reference standard before data is published.
We deploy and operate.
WMO instrument intercomparisons · ISO/IEC 17025:2017
02Architecture
Where it sits, and what it speaks.
Install and commission 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
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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.
- Open instruments
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- Networks
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- Geodesic cells
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Install and commission: solid earth domain.
04In the field
Where this runs, sector by sector.
6 deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on install and commission.
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.TransportRoad weather information network for a transportation department
Pavement and visibility stations with maintenance decision support.Government and public safetyNational GBON surface and upper-air network
WMO-grade stations reporting through WIS 2.0, funded through the systematic-observations financing pathway.Government and public safetyWildfire camera network and fire-weather stations
Camera towers with edge inference and co-located fire-weather stations, utility- or agency-funded.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 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.Field servicesDecommission
Removed, recycled, recorded.Bring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for install and commission. The form names who receives your details.
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