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At a glance
Identity and attestation
Hardware roots of trust, quotes checked at every join. The page on identity and attestation sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Hardware-rooted identity and attestation at every join, PKI, secure boot and signed updates, segmentation between nodes, tenants and sites, operational-technology and wireless security, monitoring and response, and the move to post-quantum keys, planned before it is forced.
The problem
Every node proves what it is
The products and services of Security and trust start with identity and attestation, keys and PKI, segmentation and zero trust and OT and wireless security. Hardware-rooted identity and attestation at every join, PKI, secure boot and signed updates, segmentation between nodes, tenants and sites, operational-technology and wireless security, monitoring and response, and the move to post-quantum keys, planned before it is forced.
Components
- Pole-mounted edge gateway node
- Fixed gas detectors on a drift wall
- Particulate monitoring station and sensor node
- Overhead line sensor on a distribution span
- Private LTE mast on a solar skid
- “AI tower in a box”
- Hardware security module, 1U, in an edge rack
- Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment
Interfaces
- Instruments
- SDI-12 · RS-485 / Modbus RTU · 4–20 mA
- Radio
- Ethernet · LTE-M / NB-IoT · LoRaWAN
- Time and position
- GNSS 1PPS
- Security
- TPM 2.0
- Publishing
- MQTT
Where it works
- Monitoring and response
- OT and wireless security
In the story below
- The system, part by part
- Assembly
- Installation
- Deployment
- Connections
- Operation
- Failure and recovery
- Scale and federation
- What you get
Scenes · 13
Next steps
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Security and trustSee Keys and PKISecurity and trust · Areas
Every node proves what it is
The products and services of Security and trust start with identity and attestation, keys and PKI, segmentation and zero trust and OT and wireless security. Hardware-rooted identity and attestation at every join, PKI, secure boot and signed updates, segmentation between nodes, tenants and sites, operational-technology and wireless security, monitoring and response, and the move to post-quantum keys, planned before it is forced.
Area · Identity and attestation
Identity and attestation
Hardware roots of trust, quotes checked at every join. The page on identity and attestation sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Hardware-rooted identity and attestation at every join, PKI, secure boot and signed updates, segmentation between nodes, tenants and sites, operational-technology and wireless security, monitoring and response, and the move to post-quantum keys, planned before it is forced.
See Identity and attestationArea · Monitoring and response
Monitoring and response
Detect, contain, recover, with the evidence kept. The page on monitoring and response sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Hardware-rooted identity and attestation at every join, PKI, secure boot and signed updates, segmentation between nodes, tenants and sites, operational-technology and wireless security, monitoring and response, and the move to post-quantum keys, planned before it is forced.
See Monitoring and responseArea · Segmentation and zero trust
Segmentation and zero trust
Least privilege between nodes, tenants and sites. The page on segmentation and zero trust sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Hardware-rooted identity and attestation at every join, PKI, secure boot and signed updates, segmentation between nodes, tenants and sites, operational-technology and wireless security, monitoring and response, and the move to post-quantum keys, planned before it is forced.
See Segmentation and zero trustArea · OT and wireless security
OT and wireless security
Field networks, 5G and the software supply chain. The page on OT and wireless security sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Hardware-rooted identity and attestation at every join, PKI, secure boot and signed updates, segmentation between nodes, tenants and sites, operational-technology and wireless security, monitoring and response, and the move to post-quantum keys, planned before it is forced.
See OT and wireless securityTime and place
When and where, on every record
On a network for Security and trust, when and where are part of every record: a disciplined clock, from satellite time or a PTP grandmaster, and the station’s surveyed position. A degraded clock or position is written into the record for Security and trust, never hidden, and every user downstream sees the same flag.
Area · Keys and PKI
Keys and PKI
Issuance, rotation and post-quantum migration. The page on keys and PKI sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Hardware-rooted identity and attestation at every join, PKI, secure boot and signed updates, segmentation between nodes, tenants and sites, operational-technology and wireless security, monitoring and response, and the move to post-quantum keys, planned before it is forced.
See Keys and PKITrust
Proved before it is trusted
Every node on a network for Security and trust proves what it is before it is admitted, by answering an attestation challenge from its hardware root of trust. From then on, its keys stay in secure hardware, its software is signed, and every record it makes for Security and trust can be traced to it.
Evidence
Standards an auditor can check
An auditor of a network for Security and trust finds metadata to WIGOS and ISO 19115, observations through OGC SensorThings and exchange through WIS 2.0. Releases, calibrations and admissions for Security and trust are kept as signed records, so every claim can be checked against the standard behind it.
Failure and recovery
When a node fails, the fleet knows first
When something fails on a network for Security and trust, the fleet knows first: the node buffers its data and fails over to a second link where one exists. The alert for Security and trust carries what a responder needs to act, and the record keeps every value once, with nothing lost.
How it scales
One base unit, repeated
A network for Security and trust grows from one proven unit: a base node, its instruments, then the power and radio that make it a station. A relay turns stations into a site, a fleet repeats the site in many places, and capacity for Security and trust rises with each unit added, never by replacing what works.
What you get
Open where it can be, contracted where it must be
Anyone can use and build on the protocol, the methods and the open data behind Security and trust, free of charge. Under contract, Nexus Observatory Inc. builds and runs the sites, fleets and data tiers for Security and trust, priced per site and per fleet, with service levels written as numbers.
Next step
Security and trust, planned with you
Tell us which products and services of Security and trust you need, for which sites and by when. An engineer replies with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for Security and trust, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need.
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Security and trust
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 presentationsIn depth
Use case Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weatherISIC section · ISIC B Mining and quarryingISIC section · ISIC F ConstructionSector IndustrialExplainers
Explainer · Industrial IndustrialBlast vibration at the pit, fire weather at the grid edge, methane at the fenceline and tailings movement from GNSS.Platform Security and trustEvery unattended node is an entry pointPlatform Sensors & instrumentsA number without its storyStories
Story · Private 5G and AI-RAN Private 5G with the inference in the radioA private cellular network gives a site its own coverage, its own security and its own priorities. AI-RAN adds a second idea: the accelerators that run the…Story · Post-quantum cryptography Cryptography that outlasts the quantum computerData signed today may need to be trusted in 2040. Post-quantum standards were first published in August 2024, and governments have set dates for leaving…Story · Timing and PNT Time as infrastructureA 5G cell must hold its phase within 3 µs of its neighbours, ±1.5 µs of a common reference; a synchrophasor’s one per cent vector error leaves room for only…Places and networks
Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Transmission corridorLattice 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.Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Open-pit mineGNSS slope monitors on the benches, a blast seismograph at the boundary and a private cell for the fleet, around a benched pit cut into the ground.Network scene · Private 5G · Mining Private 5G in an open-pit mineA private network for haul trucks, drills and slope radar: a mast on the rim, a cell in the pit, the core at the plant, and coverage computed over the benches themselves.Heritage observatories
Heritage observatory · United States · 1994 International GNSS ServiceA voluntary federation of some two hundred agencies and universities that operate a global network of GNSS receivers and share the results, from which the precise orbits and…Heritage observatory · Italy (historic building on the slopes of Vesuvius) · 1841 Vesuvius ObservatoryFounded in 1841 on the slope of Vesuvius, this is the oldest volcano observatory in the world.Interactive tools
Interactive tool · Configure a station Station BuilderConfigure a station part by part in 3D, check the rules as you go and request a quote for the assembly.01Areas
Security and trust, area by area.
Choose an area for its systems, standards, the industries it serves and how we deliver it.
01Identity and attestation
Hardware roots of trust, quotes checked at every join. Open the area →02Keys and PKI
Issuance, rotation and post-quantum migration. Open the area →03Segmentation and zero trust
Least privilege between nodes, tenants and sites. Open the area →04OT and wireless security
Field networks, 5G and the software supply chain. Open the area →05Monitoring and response
Detect, contain, recover, with the evidence kept. Open the area →02Open 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
- Threat model for observing sites
- Attestation profile in the protocol
Enterprise, on this site
- Operational-technology assurance
- Security monitoring for observing sites
- Key and PKI operations
03On this site
Where to go next.
Security and trustTechnologies
The layered map of what we build with. Open →Security and trustArchitecture
Layers, functions and evidence. Open →Security and trustIndustries
The industry sites built on this platform. Open →Security and trustResources
Explainer, stories, specification and forms. Open →Bring us the site.
We bring the survey, the design and the crew. The form names who receives your details.
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