--- title: "Resources: Design and integration | Nexus Observatory" description: "Resources for the Design and integration platform: field stories, the open specification and the forms that reach the right team." url: https://observatory.global/integration/resources/ publisher: Nexus Observatory Inc. updated: 2026-11-07 --- [Nexus Observatory](https://observatory.global/) / [Design and integration](https://observatory.global/integration/) / **Resources** # Resources for design and integration. The explainer, field stories, the open specification and the forms that reach the right team, in one place. [Plan with us](https://observatory.global/integration/contact/deployment/) [Areas](https://observatory.global/integration/areas/) Areas · **5** Technologies · **190** Industries · **4** 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/) [ISIC section · ISIC O **Public administration and defence; compulsory social security**](https://observatory.global/industries/o-public-administration-and-defence-compulsory-social-security/) [ISIC section · ISIC Q **Human health and social work activities**](https://observatory.global/industries/q-human-health-and-social-work-activities/) ### 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 · Development and humanitarian **Development and humanitarian, explained**](https://observatory.global/industries/humanitarian/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 · Airspace and drones **A shared sky below 120 metres** Flying beyond visual line of sight turns a drone from a camera on a stick into infrastructure. It needs a command link that holds, an identity others can…](https://observatory.global/stories/airspace-drones/) ### Places and networks [Guided tour · Guided 3D tour **Orbit view** Ground tracks of a sun-synchronous imager and three shells of a broadband constellation, computed from their orbits over a rotating Earth.](https://observatory.global/environments/orbit-view/) [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 **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/) [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/) [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/) ### Heritage observatories [Heritage observatory · United States · 1961 **World-Wide Standardized Seismograph Network** In the early 1960s the United States put identical seismographs, calibrated the same way, in more than a hundred places around the world and published the records on film for…](https://observatory.global/observatories/wwssn/) [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/) ### Interactive tools [Interactive tool · Configure a station **Station Builder** Configure a station part by part in 3D, check the rules as you go and request a quote for the assembly.](https://observatory.global/studio/builder/) **01** Start here ## See it before you plan it. [Overview Design and integration One accountable integrator, site to grid. Back to the overview →](https://observatory.global/integration/) [Plan a site Field Deployment Studio Plan coverage, power and timing on real terrain. Open the Studio →](https://observatory.global/studio/) **02** Stories ## Where this platform is at work. Field stories from the network, each with the systems in it and the sources behind it. [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… Read the story →](https://observatory.global/stories/federation/) **03** Documentation ## The open specification and its tools. [Open Specification Functions, state machines, objects and flows. Read →](https://observatory.global/protocol/specification/) [Open Developers Software kits, agents and worked examples. Read →](https://observatory.global/protocol/developers/) [Open Conformance Run the suite, publish the result. Read →](https://observatory.global/protocol/conformance/) [Open Open source What is open, and on what terms. Read →](https://observatory.global/open/) **04** Reach the right team ## Every request has its own form. Each form routes to the team that answers it and names who receives your details. [Form Plan a deployment Tell us the site, the sector and the timeline. An engineer replies. Open the form →](https://observatory.global/integration/contact/deployment/) [Form Request field services Surveys, installation, commissioning and maintenance visits. Open the form →](https://observatory.global/integration/contact/field-service/) [Form Write to us Not sure who should read it? Choose a department and we route it. Open the form →](https://observatory.global/integration/contact/message/) **05** On this site ## Where to go next. [Design and integration Areas Every area, with its systems and standards. Open →](https://observatory.global/integration/areas/) [Design and integration Technologies The layered map of what we build with. Open →](https://observatory.global/integration/technologies/) [Design and integration Architecture Layers, functions and evidence. Open →](https://observatory.global/integration/architecture/) [Design and integration Industries The industry sites built on this platform. Open →](https://observatory.global/integration/industries/) ## Bring us the site. We bring the survey, the design and the crew. The form names who receives your details. [Plan a deployment](https://observatory.global/integration/contact/deployment/) [Contact](https://observatory.global/integration/contact/) [Nexus Observatory](https://observatory.global/) **Design and integration** . One accountable integrator, site to grid. 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