--- title: "Hardware & power platform | Nexus Observatory" description: "Sensor nodes to 7U racks, enclosures and masts, solar, battery and microgrid power sized to the load, ruggedisation specified for heat, cold, dust…" url: https://observatory.global/hardware/ publisher: Nexus Observatory Inc. updated: 2026-10-27 --- Nexus Observatory / **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 us](https://observatory.global/contact/) Reference architecture [The open protocol](https://observatory.global/protocol/) **Systems**: 1 **Device families**: 4 **Red lines**: published **00** · Explainer ## Hardware & power, explained in 3D. Scroll inside the frame to move through the chapters; every scene is drawn to scale. [Open full screen](https://observatory.global/hardware/explainer/) 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. [Open the tour](https://observatory.global/environments/farm/) [Arctic station](https://observatory.global/environments/arctic-station/) **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. [01 Form factorsSensor node, gateway, 7U rack, shelter.](https://observatory.global/hardware/form-factors/) [02 PowerSolar, battery and microgrids, sized to the load.](https://observatory.global/hardware/power/) [03 RuggedisationIngress, thermal, vibration and shock, specified per site.](https://observatory.global/hardware/ruggedisation/) [04 Mobile and deployableVehicles, vessels and airborne platforms.](https://observatory.global/hardware/mobile-and-deployable/) [05 Reference designsDrawn to scale, published once licensed.](https://observatory.global/hardware/reference-designs/) [06 OEMCo-engineering with instrument and enclosure makers.](https://observatory.global/hardware/oem/) **02** · Built on the open protocol ## One protocol under every platform. Marked: the functions this platform leans on hardest. The protocol itself is open and stewarded by the Nexus Consortium, 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 ## 12 industries 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 safety** Warning time, gained at the sensor.](https://observatory.global/sectors/public-safety/) [Industry **Civil resilience** Infrastructure that reports before it fails.](https://observatory.global/industries/) [Industry **Communities** Connectivity and observation the community owns.](https://observatory.global/sectors/communities/) [Industry **Humanitarian** Observation where the need is greatest and the grid is thinnest.](https://observatory.global/sectors/humanitarian/) [Industry **Energy** The grid edge, observed.](https://observatory.global/sectors/energy/) [Industry **Telecom** Towers that compute, sense and connect.](https://observatory.global/industries/) [Industry **Infrastructure** Assets that report their own condition.](https://observatory.global/industries/) [Industry **Mining** The mine, measured from pit to tailings.](https://observatory.global/industries/) [Industry **Industry** Plants and ports, sensed and connected.](https://observatory.global/industries/) [Industry **Research** Instruments for science, run like infrastructure.](https://observatory.global/industries/) [Industry **Education** Every school, a working observatory.](https://observatory.global/sectors/education/) [Industry **Events** Venues that sense and connect at peak load.](https://observatory.global/industries/) **05** · Every platform ## 18 platforms, one architecture. 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Built for the site, not the lab.[Talk to us](https://observatory.global/contact/) Hardware & power - [Form factors](https://observatory.global/hardware/form-factors/) - [Power](https://observatory.global/hardware/power/) - [Ruggedisation](https://observatory.global/hardware/ruggedisation/) - [Mobile and deployable](https://observatory.global/hardware/mobile-and-deployable/) - [Reference designs](https://observatory.global/hardware/reference-designs/) - [OEM](https://observatory.global/hardware/oem/) Technologies - [Generation](https://observatory.global/technologies/power/generation/) - [Storage](https://observatory.global/technologies/power/storage/) Industries - [Public safety](https://observatory.global/sectors/public-safety/) - [Civil resilience](https://observatory.global/industries/) - [Communities](https://observatory.global/sectors/communities/) - [Humanitarian](https://observatory.global/sectors/humanitarian/) - [Energy](https://observatory.global/sectors/energy/) - [Telecom](https://observatory.global/industries/) - [Infrastructure](https://observatory.global/industries/) Service platforms - [Observatory Protocol](https://observatory.global/protocol/) - [Protocol & Grid](https://observatory.global/grid-services/) - [Software](https://observatory.global/software/) - [Sensors & instruments](https://observatory.global/sensors/) - [Connectivity](https://observatory.global/connectivity/) - [Edge compute & AI](https://observatory.global/edge-ai/) - [Earth observation & GeoAI](https://observatory.global/earth-observation/) © 2026 Nexus Observatory Inc. 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