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Open for civil resilience.

Open projects, open methods and open templates this community builds on, with the licence of every source carried through.

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  1. Civil resilience · Open

    Infrastructure that reports before it fails

    Condition and ground-movement monitoring for the networks a country runs on, operational-technology assurance for the sites that observe them, deployable kits for restoration, and northern and remote observing for civil authorities. Needs: asset condition and ground movement, security of the observing sites themselves, timing integrity, communications for restoration and remote and northern coverage.

  2. Open · Sensors & instruments

    Open with Sensors & instruments

    Metadata and quality rules and Open networks on the grid: free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds sensing as a Service, Calibration programmes and Qualification, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made.

  3. Open · Earth observation & GeoAI

    Open with Earth observation & GeoAI

    Observatories atlas, World grid and Map sources with licences: free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds capture campaigns and Site twins, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made.

  4. Open · Data & licensing

    Open with Data & licensing

    Open tier and Dataset cards: free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds paid tiers and Residency by contract, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made. Service levels are written as numbers you can measure.

  5. Open · Edge compute & AI

    Open with Edge compute & AI

    Class assumptions and Power and thermal methods: free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds MEC deployment and Edge AI sites, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made.

  6. Open · Protocol & Grid

    Open with Protocol & Grid

    Protocol specification, State machines and node roles, Conformance tool and Device class catalogue: free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds private grid design and operation, Federation agreements, Provider qualification testing and Works-with programme, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. How it scales

    One base unit, repeated

    A programme starts with one base node and the instruments it reads. A station adds power and radio, a site adds a relay, a fleet repeats the proven site across many places, and a network federates fleets through edge and core. Capacity grows by adding units, never by replacing what works.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. What you get

    Structural and ground-movement monitoring

    GNSS, InSAR, tilt, strain and fibre sensing on bridges, dams, slopes, tailings and pipelines, with alert thresholds set by the owner. Delivered as managed service and data licence, for infrastructure, mining and pipeline operators, transport agencies. Scale: Asset portfolios. Service levels are written as numbers you can measure on your own dashboard.

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  13. Next step

    Plan a civil resilience deployment

    Tell us the sites, the measurements and the people who will use them. We reply with a design and a scope for civil resilience. 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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01Open projects

What this community builds on.

Open hardware, software and data projects, named as references. Each keeps its own licence and its own governance.

  • SmartICE
  • SIKU
  • Open Arctic weather data

02Open methods and templates

Every calculation, with a worked example.

Observatory templates for this industry, each a starting design you can read, run and adapt on the open protocol.

Template

Northern civil observatory

Weather, geodetic and space-weather instruments with communications and power at a remote northern site, built for civil use that infrastructure programmes may share.
Template

Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weather

Private LTE on substations and poles for distribution automation, with weather nodes that inform public-safety power shutoff decisions.
Template

Wave buoy coastal array

Low-cost moored wave buoys with satellite telemetry, deployed as an array along a coast or port approach.

03Open data

Networks on the grid, with their licences.

The open observing networks on the grid, each shown with its source and licence, and the protocol that lets new ones join.

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Open networks

Instruments from open networks, on real relief.Earth and maps →

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Sources and licences

Every dataset with its source and the terms it is used under.Data credits →

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The protocol

The open specification any instrument or network can implement.Read the protocol →

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Survey, design, deployment and operation for civil resilience. The form names who receives your details.

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Open for civil resilience.

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