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Oceans · Resources
From the coastline to the open ocean
Wave buoys and tide gauges, profiling floats and coastal water quality, ports and shipping lanes, and satellite links where no cable runs, with every observation carrying its position, time and quality flag. Needs: waves, tides and sea level, water temperature and salinity, coastal water quality, port and vessel conditions and connectivity at sea.
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Coast port
A worked story shows how a oceans deployment runs end to end, from the instruments and the radio to the edge, the console and the people who act on the result. Each story names its sources and the standards it relies on.
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Ocean
A worked story shows how a oceans deployment runs end to end, from the instruments and the radio to the edge, the console and the people who act on the result. Each story names its sources and the standards it relies on.
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Ntn backhaul
A worked story shows how a oceans deployment runs end to end, from the instruments and the radio to the edge, the console and the people who act on the result. Each story names its sources and the standards it relies on.
Read the storiesWhat must be measured
Oceans: what must be measured
Waves, tides and sea level, water temperature and salinity, coastal water quality, port and vessel conditions and connectivity at sea. Each is measured by instruments sited to recognised practice, read by a base node that stamps, checks and signs every value.
Trust
Every node proves what it is
A node joins only after its hardware root of trust answers an attestation challenge. Keys stay in secure hardware, software arrives signed, and every reading carries a signature, so its origin can be checked by anyone downstream without asking us.
Time and place
Every reading carries when and where
Readings are stamped against a disciplined clock, from satellite time or a PTP grandmaster, together with the station position and its siting record. When time or position is degraded, the record says so instead of hiding it, and every analyst downstream sees the same warning.
Updates
Updates in rings, with rollback
Software and configuration reach the fleet in rings: a canary site first, then a few, then all, each ring gated on health and data completeness. A failed gate stops the wave and returns each node to its last good release, without a site visit.
Operations
Every node watched, every incident closed
The operations console shows every node with its state, its plan and its evidence. Alerts arrive with their data and a runbook; acknowledging one opens a work order, and an incident closes only when the cause is recorded and the fix verified.
Field service
One crew, from survey to repair
The same crew surveys, installs, commissions, calibrates and repairs, working from the site’s own record. Each visit updates it, so the next crew knows exactly what is there, when it was last checked and why it was changed. Spares and references are planned from that history.
Failure and recovery
When a node fails, the fleet knows first
When a node goes silent or a sensor drifts, the node buffers its data, fails over to a second link where one exists, and the alert carries the evidence a responder needs. Nothing is lost and nothing is counted twice.
What you get
Ocean and coastal observing
Moored buoys, profiling floats, tide and wave gauges, coastal radar and AIS reception with quality-controlled feeds. Delivered as managed service and data licence, for ports, coastal agencies, offshore energy, fisheries. Scale: Coastline to basin. Service levels are written as numbers you can measure on your own dashboard.
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Plan an oceans deployment
Tell us the sites, the measurements and the people who will use them. We reply with a design and a scope for oceans. An engineer replies with a survey proposal and a scope, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need, at your pace.
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01Learning paths
From first principles to a commissioned site.
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Academy
The principles of observation, the protocol and the lifecycle of a site.Start learning →
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Training and enablement
Operator, crew and engineer training on the systems you own.The training platform →
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Explainers
The systems in 3D, chapter by chapter, drawn to scale.Open the explainer →
02Standards
The standards cited on this site.
- EU Directive 2024/2881 (ambient air quality)
- CEN/TS 17660 (sensor systems)
- US EPA FEM/FRM reference methods
- 3GPP LTE/NR
- ISED Access Licensing Framework (SAB-002-26)
- Local data-governance principles (OCAP) where applicable
- OASIS CAP 1.2 (outbound alerts)
- NWCG RAWS standards
- NFPA 1600
- 3GPP Rel-16/17 URLLC
- ISO 17757 (autonomous mining machinery safety)
- GISTM (tailings)
- ISA/IEC 62443
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1787
- OGMP 2.0 reporting levels
- IOOS and IMOS quality-control procedures
- FAIR data principles
- WMO hydrological observing practices
- National gauge standards
- ICOS and eLTER quality levels
- netCDF/CF
- OGC SensorThings API
- Cantonal and provincial avalanche-safety codes
- NTCIP 1204 (environmental sensor stations)
- NTCIP 1204
03Explainer and stories
See it at work.
The industry in 3D, and field stories with the systems in each and the sources behind them.
ExplainerOceans, explained
From the coastline to the open ocean.Open the explainer →Coast and portThe port that sees the approach
A port observes three things at once: the ships coming in, the sea they come through and the cranes that receive them. Ship identity travels on a radio…Read the story →OceanThe ocean below the surface
Most of the ocean’s heat lies below what satellites can see. Profiling floats drifting at depth and surfacing to report have measured it routinely since the…Read the story →Satellite backhaulWhen the backhaul is a satellite
For a remote site, the satellite is not a backup; it is the network. Since Release 17, the cellular standard includes satellites as part of the radio access…Read the story →04Terms
What people search for in this industry.
methane monitoring regulationcontinuous emissions monitoringbiodiversity MRVeddy covariance towerwater quality telemetrycarbon credit monitoringroad weather information systemRWIS procurementAWOShighway cellular coverage gapBring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for oceans. The form names who receives your details.
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