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Planning in the twin: candidate masts placed on the terrain and compared before a site is chosen. The loop, step by step: 1. Three candidate masts on real terrain. 2. Coverage is computed from each position. 3. Each reading is stamped with time and place. 4. Results reach the planning twin. 5. Relays carry the packets without reading them. 6. Signatures are checked before any model runs. 7. Overlaps and gaps are scored together. 8. The edge releases confirmed results only. 9. The second mast moves a hundred metres. 10. Instruments confirm the response took effect. 11. Coverage is computed again for the new plan. 12. Time and place are fixed to every sample. 13. The best plan is exported to the survey crew. 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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Three candidate masts on real terrain

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Planning
From the twin to a plan you can tender.

Planning, inside Digital twins and simulation: multi-criteria siting (MCDA), design packs, information management across the asset life, BIM and asset information and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from Analytic Hierarchy Process (Saaty) consistency ratio to OGC API - Processes (execution), and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.

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Industries served
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At a glance

BIM and asset information

Building and infrastructure models and information management through design, build and operation. In planning, part of Digital twins and simulation, the 3D, BIM and digital twins layer holds BIM and asset information, drawn against ISO 16739-1 and ISO 19650-1. We build it into every site for planning against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.

The problem

From the twin to a plan you can tender

A good model is wasted if it cannot be built from. Planning exports the chosen design as drawings, bills of materials and acceptance criteria that a contractor can build and be measured against. The reference frames, formats, services, analysis methods, machine learning and 3D models that turn observations into located, queryable and decision-ready geographic information.

Key facts

Specification
ISO 16739-1 (IFC) · ISO 19650-1 (information management using BIM)
Specification
ISED CPC-2-0-03 (radiocommunication and broadcasting antenna systems)
Specification
IEC 61082-1 (documents in electrotechnology) · IEC 81346-1 (reference designation)

Components

  • Pole-mounted edge gateway node
  • Radar stream gauge on a road bridge
  • Automatic weather station (AWS) to WMO siting practice
  • Groundwater monitoring well
  • Water-quality monitoring station
  • Private LTE mast on a solar skid
  • "AI tower in a box"
  • Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment

Interfaces

Instruments
SDI-12 · RS-485 / Modbus RTU · 4–20 mA
Radio
Ethernet · LTE-M / NB-IoT · LoRaWAN
Time and position
GNSS 1PPS
Security
TPM 2.0
Publishing
MQTT

Where it works

  • Antenna siting consultation

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

Scenes · 6

Next steps

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  1. Digital twins and simulation · Planning

    From the twin to a plan you can tender

    A good model is wasted if it cannot be built from. Planning exports the chosen design as drawings, bills of materials and acceptance criteria that a contractor can build and be measured against. The reference frames, formats, services, analysis methods, machine learning and 3D models that turn observations into located, queryable and decision-ready geographic information.

  2. 3D, BIM and digital twins

    BIM and asset information

    Building and infrastructure models and information management through design, build and operation. In planning, part of Digital twins and simulation, the 3D, BIM and digital twins layer holds BIM and asset information, drawn against ISO 16739-1 and ISO 19650-1. We build it into every site for planning against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.

    Specification
    ISO 16739-1 (IFC) · ISO 19650-1 (information management using BIM)
  3. Permitting and approvals

    Antenna siting consultation

    Land-use authority and public consultation for new antenna systems. In planning, part of Digital twins and simulation, the permitting and approvals layer holds antenna siting consultation, drawn against ISED CPC-2-0-03. We build it into every site for planning against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.

    Specification
    ISED CPC-2-0-03 (radiocommunication and broadcasting antenna systems)
  4. Design packs and logistics

    Design packs

    Drawings, single-line diagrams, layouts, BOMs and method statements issued for construction. In planning, part of Digital twins and simulation, the design packs and logistics layer holds design packs, drawn against IEC 61082-1 and IEC 81346-1. We build it into every site for planning against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.

    Specification
    IEC 61082-1 (documents in electrotechnology) · IEC 81346-1 (reference designation)
  5. What you get

    Studies and twins, under contract

    Simulation methods with worked examples and open terrain and grid layers are public. Drone survey and 3D site twins, network planning studies and scenario studies are contracted. Studies are priced per site and per scenario, and the models remain yours after delivery.

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  6. Next step

    Planning, planned with you

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

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01What it is

Spatial analysis and siting.

The reference frames, formats, services, analysis methods, machine learning and 3D models that turn observations into located, queryable and decision-ready geographic information. 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.

GIS, maps and GeoAI

Multi-criteria siting (MCDA)

Weighted, constrained suitability surfaces with consistency checks and sensitivity analysis for site shortlists.

We design and operate.

Analytic Hierarchy Process (Saaty) consistency ratio · OGC API - Processes (execution)

Field operations and lifecycle

Design packs

Drawings, single-line diagrams, layouts, BOMs and method statements issued for construction.

We design.

IEC 61082-1 (documents in electrotechnology) · IEC 81346-1 (reference designation)

Field operations and lifecycle

Information management across the asset life

One controlled set of design and as-built information from design to decommission.

We design, operate and maintain.

ISO 19650-1

GIS, maps and GeoAI

BIM and asset information

Building and infrastructure models and information management through design, build and operation.

We design and integrate.

ISO 16739-1 (IFC) · ISO 19650-1 (information management using BIM)

Field operations and lifecycle

Antenna siting consultation

Land-use authority and public consultation for new antenna systems.

We design and support.

ISED CPC-2-0-03 (radiocommunication and broadcasting antenna systems)

Field operations and lifecycle

Building and electrical permits

Structural, building and electrical permits and inspections where required.

We design and support.

National Building Code of Canada · CSA C22.1 (Canadian Electrical Code, Part I)

02Architecture

Where it sits, and what it speaks.

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

Reference systems and geodesy

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Vector, raster and array formats

10

Tiling, maps and visual services

7

APIs, catalogues and discrete global grids

8

Spatial analysis and siting

10

GeoAI

10

3D, BIM and digital twins

8

Metadata, quality and publication

5

Platforms and orbits

8

Optical, spectral and thermal sensors

8

Radar, lidar and microwave sensors

10

Processing levels and analysis-ready data

9

Calibration and validation

8

Tasking, ground segment and access

9

Data cubes, analysis and archives

7

Frontier and research

8

01Join Identity, attestation quote, signed policy.

02Admit Admitted for a stated scope, nothing wider.

03Describe 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

The ground, measured before it is modelled.

Real elevation, line of sight, an orbit swath and a GeoAI pass, each an interactive explainer on open terrain data with its source shown.

Line of sight

A 30 m mast against the terrain.

Relief

Terrarium-encoded DEM, contours by marching squares.

Hillshade and slope

One gradient, a sun you can move.

Geodesic grid

Stations counted into 10,242 cells.

04In the field

Where this runs, sector by sector.

Deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on planning.

Agriculture

Farm or cooperative agromet network with crop models

Compact stations and soil probes feeding irrigation, disease and frost models.

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

  • Simulation methods with worked examples
  • Open terrain and grid layers

Enterprise, on this site

  • Drone survey and 3D site twins
  • Network planning studies
  • Scenario studies

06The rest of the line

Digital twins and simulation, area by area.

Digital twins and simulation

Site twins

The site in 3D, measured to scale.
Digital twins and simulation

Network twins

Coverage, capacity, power and timing, simulated.
Digital twins and simulation

Earth twins

Terrain, hydrology and atmosphere, on live observations.
Digital twins and simulation

Scenario simulation

Floods, heat, load and failure, run before they happen.

Bring us the site.

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

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See it from every side.

Each opens as a full-screen presentation: deeper pages on the same subject, explainers, stories, guided tours of the places, network scenes and the observatories that came before.

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In depth

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Explainers

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From the twin to a plan you can tender.

Planning, inside Digital twins and simulation: multi-criteria siting (MCDA), design packs, information management across the asset life, BIM and asset information and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from Analytic Hierarchy Process (Saaty) consistency ratio to OGC API - Processes (execution), and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.

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BIM and asset information

Building and infrastructure models and information management through design, build and operation. In planning, part of Digital twins and simulation, the 3D, BIM and digital twins layer holds BIM and asset information, drawn against ISO 16739-1 and ISO 19650-1. We build it into every site for planning against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.

false

From the twin to a plan you can tender

A good model is wasted if it cannot be built from. Planning exports the chosen design as drawings, bills of materials and acceptance criteria that a contractor can build and be measured against. The reference frames, formats, services, analysis methods, machine learning and 3D models that turn observations into located, queryable and decision-ready geographic information.

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Specification
ISO 16739-1 (IFC) · ISO 19650-1 (information management using BIM)
Specification
ISED CPC-2-0-03 (radiocommunication and broadcasting antenna systems)
Specification
IEC 61082-1 (documents in electrotechnology) · IEC 81346-1 (reference designation)

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  • Pole-mounted edge gateway node
  • Radar stream gauge on a road bridge
  • Automatic weather station (AWS) to WMO siting practice
  • Groundwater monitoring well
  • Water-quality monitoring station
  • Private LTE mast on a solar skid
  • "AI tower in a box"
  • Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment

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SDI-12 · RS-485 / Modbus RTU · 4–20 mA
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Ethernet · LTE-M / NB-IoT · LoRaWAN
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GNSS 1PPS
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TPM 2.0
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MQTT

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  • Antenna siting consultation

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01What it is

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.