Open by default
Open
An observing grid is as trustworthy as what anyone can inspect. The specification, the reference designs, the atlas, the methods and every dataset we may redistribute are public: read them, test them, build on them. Open science, open source, open data. Contributors keep their rights.
01Principle
Nothing is labelled open until its licence is recorded. Data whose terms bar commercial reuse or impose share-alike stays off the shared grid, and is listed here instead.
01Every item names its licence.
02Every record in the atlas and every network on the grid carries its source and its terms.
03Every calculation publishes its formula, its inputs and a worked example you can check by hand.
04Contributions come in under an inbound licence. No copyright assignment; your commercial rights remain.
02What is open
From the specification to reference designs: what each item is and where to open it.
Specification03Open data
The home-page grid is built from openly published station lists. A network appears on it only when its terms permit commercial reuse with no non-commercial or share-alike condition. Everything else is listed here, with the reason it was left out.
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04Open science
Methods publish their formula, units, assumptions and a hand-derived golden case. Data is described to FAIR and governed to CARE. Qualification states carry their evidence, and can go down as well as up.
REPRODUCIBILITY
Line of sight, coverage, link budget, power autonomy, siting cost: each method states its formula, units and assumptions, and carries a hand-derived golden case that the code is tested against.
App methods
EVIDENCE
A device, site or software release reaches a qualification state only with its evidence attached: the manifest, the test plan, the results and who reviewed them. States can go down as well as up.
Manifests · test plans · results
TRANSPARENCY
When a record is wrong, the correction is published with what changed, why and when. Superseded values stay readable so anyone can follow the history.
Change log
How the data is described
Who the data is for
05Contribute
Anyone can propose a change. Proposals are drafted, reviewed and accepted in the open, and land only when their conformance tests pass. The Nexus Consortium stewards the process.How stewardship works
Proposal
Review
Accepted
Implemented
Returned for changes
Withdrawn or rejected
Conformance tests pass
| Proposal | A written change with motivation, specification text, compatibility notes and a test plan. English and French summaries. |
| Inbound licence | Contributions come in under a developer certificate of origin or a licence-grant agreement, never a copyright assignment. |
| Recognition | Credit in the change log and release notes. Opt-in spotlights and hackathons. |
The node agent and SDKs carry the protocol for you: enrolment, TPM attestation, WIGOS description, PTP time and the data stream.
enrol.ts
TypeScript
// enrol a weather station on the grid const node = await grid.enrol({ role: "weather-environment", evidence: await tpm.quote(), describe: { standard: "WIGOS", sensors }, time: { clock: "ptp", profile: "G.8275.1" }, }); // UNENROLLED → DISCOVERED → ATTESTING → … node.on("state", (s) => log(s)); await node.observe(stream); 06Open and enterprise
Everything on the main site is open. When a programme needs a system designed, qualified, deployed and run at scale, each enterprise line has its own site, on the same protocol and the same open records.
Main site · open layer
Hosts, builders, students, researchers, communities, cities and manufacturers reading the specification.
Line sites · enterprise
Networks, agencies and operators who need a system designed, built and kept running.
—Begin
Start with the specification, or create an account and run the open tools.
Read the protocolCreate accountStewardshipAn observing grid is as trustworthy as what anyone can inspect. The specification, the reference designs, the atlas, the methods and every dataset we may redistribute are public: read them, test them, build on them. Open science, open source, open data. Contributors keep their rights.
Nothing is labelled open until its licence is recorded. Data whose terms bar commercial reuse or impose share-alike stays off the shared grid, and is listed here instead.
Every item names its licence.
Every record in the atlas and every network on the grid carries its source and its terms.
Every calculation publishes its formula, its inputs and a worked example you can check by hand.
Contributions come in under an inbound licence. No copyright assignment; your commercial rights remain.
From the specification to reference designs: what each item is and where to open it.
The home-page grid is built from openly published station lists. A network appears on it only when its terms permit commercial reuse with no non-commercial or share-alike condition. Everything else is listed here, with the reason it was left out.
Methods publish their formula, units, assumptions and a hand-derived golden case. Data is described to FAIR and governed to CARE. Qualification states carry their evidence, and can go down as well as up.
Line of sight, coverage, link budget, power autonomy, siting cost: each method states its formula, units and assumptions, and carries a hand-derived golden case that the code is tested against.
App methodsA device, site or software release reaches a qualification state only with its evidence attached: the manifest, the test plan, the results and who reviewed them. States can go down as well as up.
Manifests · test plans · resultsWhen a record is wrong, the correction is published with what changed, why and when. Superseded values stay readable so anyone can follow the history.
Change logAnyone can propose a change. Proposals are drafted, reviewed and accepted in the open, and land only when their conformance tests pass. The Nexus Consortium stewards the process.
How stewardship works| Proposal | A written change with motivation, specification text, compatibility notes and a test plan. English and French summaries. |
| Inbound licence | Contributions come in under a developer certificate of origin or a licence-grant agreement, never a copyright assignment. |
| Recognition | Credit in the change log and release notes. Opt-in spotlights and hackathons. |
The node agent and SDKs carry the protocol for you: enrolment, TPM attestation, WIGOS description, PTP time and the data stream.
// enrol a weather station on the grid const node = await grid.enrol({ role: "weather-environment", evidence: await tpm.quote(), describe: { standard: "WIGOS", sensors }, time: { clock: "ptp", profile: "G.8275.1" }, }); // UNENROLLED → DISCOVERED → ATTESTING → … node.on("state", (s) => log(s)); await node.observe(stream);
Everything on the main site is open. When a programme needs a system designed, qualified, deployed and run at scale, each enterprise line has its own site, on the same protocol and the same open records.
Hosts, builders, students, researchers, communities, cities and manufacturers reading the specification.
Networks, agencies and operators who need a system designed, built and kept running.
Start with the specification, or create an account and run the open tools.
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