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Hardware & power
Built for the site, not the lab.

Sensor nodes to 7U racks, enclosures and masts, solar, battery and microgrid power sized to the load, ruggedisation specified for heat, cold, dust, water and shock, and platforms that move: vehicles, vessels and airborne.

Plan with usReference architectureThe open protocol

00 · Explainer

Hardware & power, explained in 3D.

Scroll inside the frame to move through the chapters; every scene is drawn to scale.

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In the field

Farm

Soil probes in the fields, a LoRaWAN gateway on a mast, a weather station and a solar microgrid powering the edge.

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Arctic station

Stories

How it works, in place.

Interactive stories with figures drawn to scale and every claim referenced.

All stories System: Private 5G and AI-RAN Private 5G with the inference in the radioA private cellular network gives a site its own coverage, its own security and its own priorities. AI-RAN adds a second idea: the accelerators that run the…System: LPWAN and mesh Kilometres on a coin cellMost environmental sensors send a few bytes a few times an hour. Low-power wide-area networks trade bandwidth for range and battery life; mesh networks…System: Edge AI inference Deciding at the edgeA model that detects smoke, flooding or a fault is most useful where the frame is captured. Running inference at the edge cuts the time to a decision and…

01 · What this platform covers

Hardware & power, area by area.

Choose an area for its systems, standards, the industries it serves and how we deliver it.

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Form factors

Sensor node, gateway, 7U rack, shelter.02

Power

Solar, battery and microgrids, sized to the load.03

Ruggedisation

Ingress, thermal, vibration and shock, specified per site.04

Mobile and deployable

Vehicles, vessels and airborne platforms.05

Reference designs

Drawn to scale, published once licensed.06

OEM

Co-engineering with instrument and enclosure makers.

02 · Built on the open protocol

One protocol under every platform.

Marked: the functions this platform leans on hardest. The protocol itself is open, so what you build here runs anywhere the protocol runs.

01 JOIN

02 ADMIT

03 DESCRIBE

04 TIME

05 OBSERVE

06 QUALIFY

07 FEDERATE

08 ORCHESTRATE

03 · Open and enterprise

Open by default. Enterprise by contract.

The open layer lives on the main site, free to use and build on. Enterprise services are delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc.

Open, on the main site

  • Device classes with 3D models
  • Reference designs (licence pending)

Enterprise, on this site

  • Kit supply
  • Bills of materials and deployment plans
  • OEM co-engineering

04 · Industries served

The industries that build on hardware & power.

Each industry has its own site: its use cases, its community and the enterprise path, with this platform among the systems behind it.

Industry Public safetyWarning time, gained at the sensor.Industry Civil resilienceInfrastructure that reports before it fails.Industry CommunitiesConnectivity and observation the community owns.Industry HumanitarianObservation where the need is greatest and the grid is thinnest.Industry EnergyThe grid edge, observed.Industry TelecomTowers that compute, sense and connect.Industry InfrastructureAssets that report their own condition.Industry MiningThe mine, measured from pit to tailings.Industry IndustryPlants and ports, sensed and connected.Industry ResearchInstruments for science, run like infrastructure.Industry EducationEvery school, a working observatory.Industry EventsVenues that sense and connect at peak load.

05 · Every platform

Every platform, one architecture.

One platform for each technical area of our work, on the same protocol, the same data and the same design.

Protocol & GridSoftwareHardware & powerSensors & instrumentsConnectivityEdge compute & AIEarth observation & GeoAIField servicesData & licensingSpace and satellite systemsPositioning, navigation and timingSecurity and trustDigital twins and simulationDesign and integrationTest and qualificationOperations centreTraining and enablementFrontier labs

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We bring the survey, the design and the crew. Nexus Observatory Inc. The form names who receives your details.

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Nexus Observatory/

Built for the site, not the lab.

Sensor nodes to 7U racks, enclosures and masts, solar, battery and microgrid power sized to the load, ruggedisation specified for heat, cold, dust, water and shock, and platforms that move: vehicles, vessels and airborne.

Plan with usReference architectureThe open protocol
01 · What this platform covers

Choose an area for its systems, standards, the industries it serves and how we deliver it.

02 · Built on the open protocol

One protocol under every platform.

Marked: the functions this platform leans on hardest. The protocol itself is open, so what you build here runs anywhere the protocol runs.

03 · Open and enterprise

Open by default. Enterprise by contract.

The open layer lives on the main site, free to use and build on. Enterprise services are delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc.

Open, on the main site
    Enterprise, on this site
      04 · Industries served

      Each industry has its own site: its use cases, its community and the enterprise path, with this platform among the systems behind it.

      05 · Every platform

      One platform for each technical area of our work, on the same protocol, the same data and the same design.

      Bring us the site.

      We bring the survey, the design and the crew. Nexus Observatory Inc. The form names who receives your details.

      Talk to usCreate account