Template · gbon-gap-filler
National GBON surface and upper-air network
WMO-grade stations reporting through WIS 2.0, funded through the systematic-observations financing pathway.
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Sectors/
Government and public safetyWarning starts with a measurement.
Emergency management, wildfire, flood and early-warning delivery. The demand signal is data gaps and sustained operation, not hardware.
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01Deployment scenarios
5 ways the grid is deployed here.
From the sector research, each with the observatory template that serves it where one exists.
Template · wildfire-camera
Wildfire camera network and fire-weather stations
Camera towers with edge inference and co-located fire-weather stations, utility- or agency-funded.
Template · street-flood
Urban street-flood sensor network
Open-hardware depth sensors with open data and alerts to emergency management.
Protocol & Grid · Hardware & power · Sensors & instruments · Data & licensing
Scenario
Alerting integration with the Common Alerting Protocol and cell broadcast
Software-heavy: sensor triggers feed an alert origination tool; the alert authority keeps every decision.
Template · deployable-incident
Deployable communications and sensing for incident command
A cell on wheels with satellite backhaul, mesh telemetry and environment nodes at the incident base.
Hardware & power · Connectivity · Earth observation & GeoAI · Field services
02Proof
What buyers ask to see.
The evidence a procurement in this sector asks for, from the sector research. Each item is produced by the grid as a record, not written up afterwards.
- Reporting uptime
- Data-format conformance
- Independently evaluated false-alarm rates
- Time to repair
- References from a meteorological service or an emergency agency
- Bilingual alerting where required
03Participation
Where communities can host the grid.
CommunityJoin the community
One account for every community, platform and the Nexus Observatory app.Open dataUse the open networks
Public observing networks on their own terms, ready to reuse.HostingHost a station
Tell us about a site; we bring the survey, the design and the crew.04Lines
The lines that serve it.
9 of the nine enterprise lines carry the scenarios above, ranked by how many name their work.
4 scenariosSensors & instruments
Measurements that carry their own proof.3 scenariosProtocol & Grid
Your grid, on the open protocol.2 scenariosHardware & power
Built for the site, not the lab.2 scenariosConnectivity
Private 5G, AI-RAN and orbit, on site.1 scenarioSoftware
One runtime. Every node. Every state.1 scenarioEdge compute & AI
Inference beside the instrument.1 scenarioEarth observation & GeoAI
The ground, measured and modelled.1 scenarioField services
Survey to decommission, one accountable crew.1 scenarioData & licensing
Grid data, licensed for your use.05Search terms and open work
How the sector names the problem.
The terms buyers and programmes use, and open projects in the space, named as factual references only. Naming a project is not an endorsement or a relationship.
Search terms multi-hazard early warning system GBON WIS 2.0 automatic weather station tender wildfire detection camera flood sensor network CAP alerting deployable cell impact-based forecasting EW4All
Open projects, for reference
- FloodNet NYC open hardware
- UCAR 3D-PAWS
- Open CAP editors
- WIS2 reference nodes (wis2box)
- Sensor.Community
06Other sectors
Thirteen sectors, one grid.
4 scenariosCities
The street, measured block by block.5 scenariosCommunities and rural
Connectivity and sensing, locally owned.5 scenariosIndustrial
Sites, ground and air, on one record.5 scenariosAgriculture
Soil, water and weather, field by field.4 scenariosSports and events
A temporary grid for a crowd.4 scenariosDevelopment and humanitarian
Data gaps close before the crisis.6 scenariosScientific
Instruments that outlast the grant.5 scenariosEnvironment and climate
Ecosystems, observed without a gap.4 scenariosEnergy
Assets, grids and weather, joined.4 scenariosTransport
Corridors that report their own state.4 scenariosDefence-adjacent (civil dual-use)
Civil sensing only. Nothing else.3 scenariosEducation
Learning to observe, on a real grid.Bring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for government and public safety. The form names who receives your details.
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