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At a glance
Security and trust for civil resilience
For critical infrastructure and civil resilience, Security and trust serves asset condition and ground movement, security of the observing sites themselves and timing integrity. 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.
The problem
Every node proves what it is
This page shows the industries Security and trust serves and what each needs from 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.
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
- Security and trust for industry
- Security and trust for mining
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 trustSecurity and trust · Industries served
Every node proves what it is
This page shows the industries Security and trust serves and what each needs from 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.
Industry · Civil resilience
Security and trust for civil resilience
For critical infrastructure and civil resilience, Security and trust serves asset condition and ground movement, security of the observing sites themselves and timing integrity. 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.
Industry · Industry
Security and trust for industry
For manufacturing and industrial sites, Security and trust serves emissions at the fenceline, process environment and coverage across the site. Private wireless and edge inference on the plant floor, fenceline and emissions monitoring, rugged hardware for harsh sites, and operational-technology assurance for the observing systems inside the fence.
Industry · Telecom
Security and trust for telecom
For telecommunications and digital infrastructure, Security and trust serves spectrum occupancy and interference, timing accuracy and site power and cooling. AI-RAN and edge compute at the tower, private 5G for enterprises, timing and spectrum monitoring, satellite backhaul and ground segment, and towers that host observing instruments as a second tenant.
Industry · Mining
Security and trust for mining
For mining and resources, Security and trust serves slope and tailings stability, dust, gas and methane and water discharge. Private 5G across the pit and underground, slope and tailings monitoring, fenceline air and methane measurement, site power and microgrids, and environmental reporting built from the same observations.
Time and place
When and where, on every record
Each record for Security and trust is stamped against a clock that satellite time or a PTP grandmaster disciplines, and it carries the position and siting record of its station. If time or position degrades, the record for Security and trust says so plainly, so every user downstream reads the same warning.
Industry · Energy
Security and trust for energy
For energy and utilities, Security and trust serves line and right-of-way condition, fire weather along corridors and solar and wind resource. Right-of-way and line monitoring, fire weather along transmission corridors, microgrids and site power, timing for protection and synchrophasors, and resource measurement for solar and wind that a lender can rely on.
Trust
Proved before it is trusted
No node joins a network for Security and trust on trust: its hardware root of trust first answers an attestation challenge. Keys for Security and trust never leave secure hardware, updates arrive signed, and each record carries the signature that lets anyone downstream trace it to its source.
Evidence
Standards an auditor can check
Observations for Security and trust are described to WIGOS and ISO 19115 practice, served through OGC SensorThings and exchanged through WIS 2.0. Each release, calibration and admission for Security and trust is a signed record, and an auditor checks it independently against the standard it names.
Operations
Every node watched, every incident closed
Every node for Security and trust appears in the operations console with its state, its plan and the evidence behind both. An alert brings its data and a runbook, acknowledging it opens a work order, and the operator closes an incident for Security and trust only once the cause is recorded and the fix verified.
Failure and recovery
When a node fails, the fleet knows first
A node for Security and trust that goes silent, or a sensor that drifts, keeps its data in a buffer and moves to a second link where the site has one. The responder’s alert carries the evidence, and the record for Security and trust neither loses a value nor counts one twice.
What you get
Open where it can be, contracted where it must be
What is open behind Security and trust stays open: the protocol, the methods and the open data are free to use and build on. Sites, fleets, managed operations and data tiers for Security and trust come under contract from Nexus Observatory Inc., priced per site and per fleet, with service levels you can check.
Next step
Security and trust, planned with you
Tell us your industry, your sites and what Security and trust must measure or connect there. 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.
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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 quarryingSector IndustrialISIC section · ISIC F ConstructionExplainers
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 · 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…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…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 · China · 132 Zhang Heng’s seismoscopeIn 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.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 · Plan a site Field Deployment StudioTerrain, devices, coverage, viewshed, power and the best spot for a station, then a deployment request with the plan attached.01Industries served
The industries that build on security and trust.
Each industry has its own site: its use cases, its community and the enterprise path, with this platform among the systems behind it.
IndustryCivil resilience
Infrastructure that reports before it fails. Visit the industry site →IndustryEnergy
The grid edge, observed. Visit the industry site →IndustryTelecom
Towers that compute, sense and connect. Visit the industry site →IndustryMining
The mine, measured from pit to tailings. Visit the industry site →IndustryIndustry
Plants and ports, sensed and connected. Visit the industry site →02Use cases
Worked use cases in these industries.
Each names who deploys it, the kit by device class and the data products it publishes.
Use caseCommunity cellular and sensing
Small cells with an open core, satellite backhaul and solar power, plus a sensing overlay, for a community that owns its network. Read the use case →Use caseWildfire camera and fire-weather node
Pan-tilt and thermal cameras with edge inference on a ridgeline tower, co-located with a fire-weather station. Read the use case →Use caseRemote microgrid observatory
Solar, storage and power-quality telemetry with a weather station and a small cell, for a community that is reducing diesel. Read the use case →Use caseUtility 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. Read the use case →Use caseMine site private 5G and environmental monitoring
A standalone 5G core, radios across the pit and edge compute for autonomy, with dust, vibration, slope and weather sensing for environmental records. Read the use case →Use caseMethane fenceline observatory
Point sensors on the fenceline with optical gas imaging and quantification, feeding leak-detection reports. Read the use case →03Every industry
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