--- title: "Programme delivery | Nexus Observatory" description: "Programme delivery, inside Design and integration: dangerous goods logistics, remote site logistics, temporary import and customs…" url: https://observatory.global/integration/programme-delivery/ publisher: Nexus Observatory Inc. updated: 2026-11-07 --- [Nexus Observatory](https://observatory.global/) / [Design and integration](https://observatory.global/integration/) / **Programme delivery** # Many sites, one plan and one schedule. Programme delivery, inside Design and integration: dangerous goods logistics, remote site logistics, temporary import and customs, radio licences and equipment authorisation and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations to Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (Canada), and runs on the open Observatory Protocol. [Plan with us](https://observatory.global/contact/) Architecture [The protocol](https://observatory.global/protocol/specification/) **Technologies**: 7 **At the frontier**: 0 **Protocol functions**: 4 of 12 **Industries served**: 4 At a glance ## Dangerous goods logistics Shipping batteries, fuel and gas cylinders by air, sea and road. In programme delivery, part of Design and integration, the design packs and logistics layer holds dangerous goods logistics, drawn against IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations and Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations and used beside temporary import and customs on the same sites. The problem ### Many sites, one plan and one schedule Large observing programmes buy from many suppliers. Without one design and one interface contract, every boundary becomes a dispute and every site a one-off. Programmes slip at the interfaces, not in the components, and nobody can say where the delay comes from. Key facts **Specification**: IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations · Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (Canada) **Specification**: Transport Canada aeronautical obstruction clearance · 14 CFR Part 77 (US) **Specification**: ISO 45001:2018 · Canada Labour Code Part II **Specification**: ISO 45001:2018 (planning of hazardous work) **Specification**: Radiocommunication Act (Canada) · ISED Radio Standards Specifications Components - Field-service crew vehicle - Overhead line sensor on a distribution span - Automatic weather station (AWS) to WMO siting practice - Distribution pole transformer and meter cabinet - Private LTE mast on a solar skid - "AI tower in a box" - Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment - Operations console with a video wall Interfaces **Radio**: LTE / 5G **Time and position**: GNSS Where it works - Aeronautical obstruction clearance - Remote site logistics In the story below 1. The system, part by part 2. Assembly 3. Installation 4. Deployment 5. Connections 6. Operation 7. Failure and recovery 8. Scale and federation 9. What you get Scenes · 13 Next steps [Plan a deployment](https://observatory.global/integration/contact/deployment/) [Open the Field Deployment Studio](https://observatory.global/studio/) [See Design and integration](https://observatory.global/integration/) [Talk to sales](https://observatory.global/contact/sales-enquiry/) 1. Design and integration · Programme delivery Many sites, one plan and one schedule Large observing programmes buy from many suppliers. Without one design and one interface contract, every boundary becomes a dispute and every site a one-off. Programmes slip at the interfaces, not in the components, and nobody can say where the delay comes from. 2. What it does Dangerous goods logistics Shipping batteries, fuel and gas cylinders by air, sea and road. In programme delivery, part of Design and integration, the design packs and logistics layer holds dangerous goods logistics, drawn against IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations and Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations and used beside temporary import and customs on the same sites. SpecificationIATA Dangerous Goods Regulations · Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (Canada) 3. Permitting and approvals Aeronautical obstruction clearance Assessing masts and lighting near aerodromes and flight paths. In programme delivery, part of Design and integration, the permitting and approvals layer holds aeronautical obstruction clearance, drawn against Transport Canada aeronautical obstruction clearance and 14 CFR Part 77. We build it into every site for programme delivery against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record. SpecificationTransport Canada aeronautical obstruction clearance · 14 CFR Part 77 (US) 4. Health, safety and evidence records Occupational health and safety management Hazard identification, risk control and worker participation across all field work. In programme delivery, part of Design and integration, the health, safety and evidence records layer holds occupational health and safety management, drawn against ISO 45001:2018 and Canada Labour Code Part II. SpecificationISO 45001:2018 · Canada Labour Code Part II 5. Design packs and logistics Remote site logistics Seasonal windows, winter roads, barges, helicopters and staging for hard-to-reach sites. In programme delivery, part of Design and integration, the design packs and logistics layer holds remote site logistics, drawn against ISO 45001:2018. We build it into every site for programme delivery against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record. SpecificationISO 45001:2018 (planning of hazardous work) 6. Time and place When and where, on every record Every record made for programme delivery carries its time, from a clock disciplined by satellite time or a PTP grandmaster, with the position and siting record of the station that made it. When time or position degrades, the record for programme delivery says so, and every user downstream sees the same warning. 7. Permitting and approvals Radio licences and equipment authorisation Spectrum and station licences and equipment approval for every transmitter. In programme delivery, part of Design and integration, the permitting and approvals layer holds radio licences and equipment authorisation, drawn against Radiocommunication Act and ISED Radio Standards Specifications and used beside building and electrical permits on the same sites. SpecificationRadiocommunication Act (Canada) · ISED Radio Standards Specifications 8. Trust Proved before it is trusted A node joins a network for programme delivery only after its hardware root of trust answers an attestation challenge. Its keys stay in secure hardware, its software arrives signed and every record it makes for programme delivery carries a signature, so anyone downstream can check where a value came from. 9. Evidence Traced to its specifications We trace each part of programme delivery to its specification: IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations, Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations and Radiocommunication Act. We keep the versions, configurations and test results of programme delivery as signed records, so a buyer or an auditor can check what was delivered against what was specified. StandardsIATA Dangerous Goods Regulations · Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations · Radiocommunication Act · ISED Radio Standards Specifications 10. Failure and recovery When a node fails, the fleet knows first When a node for programme delivery goes silent or a sensor drifts, the node buffers its data and fails over to a second link where the site has one. The alert carries the evidence a responder needs, and the record for programme delivery loses nothing and counts nothing twice. 11. How it scales One base unit, repeated A network for programme delivery starts with one base node and the instruments it reads. A station adds power and radio, a site adds a relay and a fleet repeats the proven site, so capacity for programme delivery grows by adding units, never by replacing what works. 12. What you get Programmes, integration and management The reference architecture and interface contracts are open. National observing network programmes, systems integration and programme management are contracted. Pricing follows the programme's scale and phases, with one point of accountability from design to acceptance; the documentation, models and records stay yours at the end. [Talk to sales](https://observatory.global/contact/sales-enquiry/) 13. Next step Programme delivery, planned with you Tell us the sites, the systems programme delivery must work with and the outcome you need, with a map or a list of addresses if you have one. An engineer replies with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for programme delivery, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need. [Plan a deployment](https://observatory.global/integration/contact/deployment/) [Open the Field Deployment Studio](https://observatory.global/studio/) [See Design and integration](https://observatory.global/integration/) More presentations ## See it from every side. Each opens as a full-screen presentation: deeper pages on the same subject, explainers, stories, guided tours of the places, network scenes and the observatories that came before. [All presentations](https://observatory.global/presentations/) ### In depth [Use case **GBON gap-filler station**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/gbon-gap-filler/) [Use case **Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weather**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/utility-grid-edge/) [Use case **Street flood observatory**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/street-flood/) [ISIC section · ISIC O **Public administration and defence; compulsory social security**](https://observatory.global/industries/o-public-administration-and-defence-compulsory-social-security/) ### Explainers [Explainer · Government and public safety **Government and public safety** Wildfire cameras on real terrain, GBON station density, street-flood alert thresholds, CAP alerting with the authority in the loop and the radio horizon of a deployable cell.](https://observatory.global/industries/public-safety/explainer/) [Explainer · Industrial **Industrial** Blast vibration at the pit, fire weather at the grid edge, methane at the fenceline and tailings movement from GNSS.](https://observatory.global/industries/infrastructure/explainer/) [Platform **Design and integration** Many suppliers, nobody accountable](https://observatory.global/integration/) [Platform **Field services** Sites fail between contractors](https://observatory.global/field-services/) ### Stories [Story · Federation across agencies **Many agencies, one picture** No single agency observes everything it needs. Federation lets each keep its own systems and still share: common interfaces, common catalogues and common…](https://observatory.global/stories/federation/) [Story · Resilient operations **When the links fail** Observing systems matter most on the days infrastructure fails. Designing for that day means local autonomy, stored power, store-and-forward delivery and…](https://observatory.global/stories/resilient-ops/) [Story · End to end **An observation grid, end to end** An observation is not a reading. It is a reading with a place, a time, a calibration and a path that anyone can follow back. An observing grid is the…](https://observatory.global/stories/observation-grid/) ### Places and networks [Guided tour · Guided 3D tour **Ground station** An 11 m class antenna and its companions on a fenced pad, with edge compute that turns each pass into catalogued products before the next one.](https://observatory.global/environments/ground-station/) [Guided tour · Guided 3D tour **Transmission corridor** Lattice towers carry a line across open country; conductor sensors report temperature and sag, and the substation edge brings them into the grid operator’s systems.](https://observatory.global/environments/transmission-corridor/) [Guided tour · Guided 3D tour **River basin** Water-level gauges along a river valley floor, a weather station and an edge node: the red isoline is the ground that lies within a few metres of the lowest point of the reach.](https://observatory.global/environments/river-basin/) [Network scene · Backhaul · Fresnel zone **Microwave backhaul across a river valley** An 18 GHz hop from the church tower to a mast on the far side of the flood plain: its first Fresnel zone, clearance over the town and trees, and what a new building in the path…](https://observatory.global/environments/networks/backhaul-fresnel/) [Network scene · NTN · Satellite **Satellite direct to device in a mountain valley** Where the valley cell cannot reach, phones on the pass road connect straight to a low-orbit satellite, which relays through its feeder link to a gateway.](https://observatory.global/environments/networks/ntn-d2d/) ### Heritage observatories [Heritage observatory · China · 132 **Zhang Heng's seismoscope** In 132 CE a court astronomer presented a bronze urn that, it was recorded, told the capital of an earthquake no one in Luoyang had felt. No original survives.](https://observatory.global/observatories/zhang-heng-seismoscope/) [Heritage observatory · Global network of about 150 stations; USGS and EarthScope (formerly IRIS) partnership · 1984 **Global Seismographic Network** About 150 digital broadband seismic stations in some 80 countries, sending data to open archives within minutes.](https://observatory.global/observatories/iris-gsn/) ### Interactive tools [Interactive tool · Plan a site **Field Deployment Studio** Terrain, devices, coverage, viewshed, power and the best spot for a station, then a deployment request with the plan attached.](https://observatory.global/studio/) **01** What it is ## Design packs and logistics. Everything that happens on the ground across a site's life: survey, permits, design packs, logistics, installation, acceptance, training, operations, maintenance, upgrades, decommission and recycling, done safely and recorded as evidence. Each technology below carries what it is, what we do with it, and the standard it is drawn against. Field operations and lifecycle ### Dangerous goods logistics Shipping batteries, fuel and gas cylinders by air, sea and road. We deploy. IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations · Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (Canada) Field operations and lifecycle ### Remote site logistics Seasonal windows, winter roads, barges, helicopters and staging for hard-to-reach sites. We design and deploy. ISO 45001:2018 (planning of hazardous work) Field operations and lifecycle ### Temporary import and customs Moving tools and test equipment across borders and back. We deploy. ATA Carnet Convention (WCO) Field operations and lifecycle ### Radio licences and equipment authorisation Spectrum and station licences and equipment approval for every transmitter. We design and support. Radiocommunication Act (Canada) · ISED Radio Standards Specifications Field operations and lifecycle ### Aeronautical obstruction clearance Assessing masts and lighting near aerodromes and flight paths. We design and support. Transport Canada aeronautical obstruction clearance · 14 CFR Part 77 (US) Field operations and lifecycle ### Building and electrical permits Structural, building and electrical permits and inspections where required. We design and support. National Building Code of Canada · CSA C22.1 (Canadian Electrical Code, Part I) Field operations and lifecycle ### Occupational health and safety management Hazard identification, risk control and worker participation across all field work. We deploy, operate and maintain. ISO 45001:2018 · Canada Labour Code Part II **02** Architecture ## Where it sits, and what it speaks. Programme delivery draws on the spectrum below; the highlighted layers carry this area, and the protocol functions it speaks are marked. 5G core functions 10 Network slicing, edge UPF and local breakout 8 IMS, voice and mission-critical services 6 Fronthaul, midhaul and backhaul 8 Fibre and optical transport 8 IP/MPLS, segment routing, SD-WAN and IPv6 8 Network automation and intent 7 Core security and resilience 5 Generation 9 Storage 9 Microgrids and distribution 9 Energy management and monitoring 7 Thermal design and ingress 8 Environmental and EMC testing 7 Lightning, grounding and structures 8 Safety and transport 7 01**Join** Identity, attestation quote, signed policy. 02**Admit** Admitted for a stated scope, nothing wider. 03**Describe** What, where, how and by whom, with calibration. 04**Time** One clock across the grid, with its error bound. 05**Observe** Every value with quality and provenance. 06**Qualify** Tested against the specification, state on record. 07**Federate** Signed exchange across grids and trust domains. 08**Orchestrate** Software and configuration by signed plan. 09**Correct** A correction marks what depends on it and publishes a new version. 10**Exchange** Products reach people and applications through versioned interfaces. 11**Prove** Signed proof receipts that an independent verifier can check. 12**Exit and decommission** An open exit path, and a record that closes. **03** On the grid ## Every site joins one observing grid. The open networks on the grid today, over real relief and the geodesic cells we count them into. A site built here enrols into the same grid. ## The observing grid 1. Open instruments on the observing grid. **04** In the field ## Where this runs, sector by sector. Deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on programme delivery. [Scientific Ocean and coastal low-cost buoy arrays Satellite-backhauled wave buoys accepted in a national programme trial.](https://observatory.global/sectors/scientific/) [Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use) Research and development route through the defence science programme A science-and-technology programme on all-domain situational awareness.](https://observatory.global/sectors/defence-adjacent/) [Government and public safety National GBON surface and upper-air network WMO-grade stations reporting through WIS 2.0, funded through the systematic-observations financing pathway.](https://observatory.global/sectors/public-safety/) [Government and public safety 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.](https://observatory.global/sectors/public-safety/) [Communities and rural Interim public-safety broadband where no national network exists Private LTE or 5G for fire and medical services in territories without a national public-safety network.](https://observatory.global/sectors/communities/) [Scientific Stream gauges A low-cost tier beside national gauge networks.](https://observatory.global/sectors/scientific/) **05** Open and enterprise ## Open by default. Enterprise by contract. The open counterpart lives on the main site for anyone to read and run. The enterprise service is designed, deployed and operated with you, under contract. Open, on the main site - Reference architecture - Interface contracts Enterprise, on this site - National observing network programmes - Systems integration - Programme management **06** The rest of the line ## Design and integration, area by area. 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