--- title: "Areas: Test and qualification | Nexus Observatory" description: "Areas of the Test and qualification platform: Lab testing, Field trials, Conformance and Interoperability events. Environmental, RF, power and EMC…" url: https://observatory.global/qualification/areas/ publisher: Nexus Observatory Inc. updated: 2026-11-07 --- [Nexus Observatory](https://observatory.global/) / [Test and qualification](https://observatory.global/qualification/) / **Areas** # Test and qualification, area by area. Each area of the platform has its own page: the systems in it, the standards it is drawn against, the industries it serves and how we deliver it. [Plan with us](https://observatory.global/qualification/contact/deployment/) [Technologies](https://observatory.global/qualification/technologies/) Areas · **5** Technologies · **184** Industries · **4** At a glance ## Lab testing Environmental, RF, power and EMC, on the bench. The page on lab testing sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it. The problem ### Tested against the specification. State on record The products and services of Test and qualification start with lab testing, field trials, conformance and interoperability events. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it. Components - Pole-mounted edge gateway node - Automatic weather station (AWS) to WMO siting practice - Particulate monitoring station and sensor node - Compact X-band weather radar / ISAC sensing node on a lattice tower top - Street small-cell pole with an air-quality node - "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 - Evidence - Interoperability events 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/qualification/contact/deployment/) [Open the Field Deployment Studio](https://observatory.global/studio/) [See Test and qualification](https://observatory.global/qualification/) [See Field trials](https://observatory.global/qualification/field-trials/) 1. Test and qualification · Areas Tested against the specification. State on record The products and services of Test and qualification start with lab testing, field trials, conformance and interoperability events. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it. 2. Area · Lab testing Lab testing Environmental, RF, power and EMC, on the bench. The page on lab testing sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it. [See Lab testing](https://observatory.global/qualification/lab-testing/) 3. Area · Evidence Evidence Every result, signed and kept. The page on evidence sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it. [See Evidence](https://observatory.global/qualification/evidence/) 4. Area · Conformance Conformance Run the protocol suite, publish the result. The page on conformance sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it. [See Conformance](https://observatory.global/qualification/conformance/) 5. Area · Interoperability events Interoperability events Many suppliers, one test plan. The page on interoperability events sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it. [See Interoperability events](https://observatory.global/qualification/interoperability-events/) 6. Time and place When and where, on every record On a network for Test and qualification, 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 Test and qualification, never hidden, and every user downstream sees the same flag. 7. Area · Field trials Field trials On a real site, against a written plan. The page on field trials sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it. [See Field trials](https://observatory.global/qualification/field-trials/) 8. Trust Proved before it is trusted Every node on a network for Test and qualification 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 Test and qualification can be traced to it. 9. Evidence Standards an auditor can check An auditor of a network for Test and qualification finds metadata to WIGOS and ISO 19115, observations through OGC SensorThings and exchange through WIS 2.0. Releases, calibrations and admissions for Test and qualification are kept as signed records, so every claim can be checked against the standard behind it. 10. Operations Every node watched, every incident closed Operators of a network for Test and qualification see every node at once: its state, its plan and its evidence, in one console. Each alert for Test and qualification arrives with its data and a runbook, and its incident stays open until the operator records the cause and verifies the fix. 11. Failure and recovery When a node fails, the fleet knows first When something fails on a network for Test and qualification, the fleet knows first: the node buffers its data and fails over to a second link where one exists. The alert for Test and qualification carries what a responder needs to act, and the record keeps every value once, with nothing lost. 12. 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 Test and qualification, free of charge. Under contract, Nexus Observatory Inc. builds and runs the sites, fleets and data tiers for Test and qualification, priced per site and per fleet, with service levels written as numbers. 13. Next step Test and qualification, planned with you Tell us which products and services of Test and qualification you need, for which sites and by when. An engineer replies with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for Test and qualification, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need. [Plan a deployment](https://observatory.global/qualification/contact/deployment/) [Open the Field Deployment Studio](https://observatory.global/studio/) [See Test and qualification](https://observatory.global/qualification/) 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 **Northern civil observatory**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/northern-civil/) [Use case **Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weather**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/utility-grid-edge/) [Use case **GBON gap-filler station**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/gbon-gap-filler/) [Sector **Industrial**](https://observatory.global/sectors/industrial/) ### Explainers [Explainer · Scientific **Scientific, explained**](https://observatory.global/industries/research/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 **Test and qualification** Claims are easy; evidence is rare](https://observatory.global/qualification/) [Platform **Connectivity** Public networks were not built for this site](https://observatory.global/connectivity/) ### Stories [Story · Overview **What changes by 2030** Six shifts will reshape how the Earth is observed before the decade ends: networks that sense, models that forecast, foundation models that read imagery,…](https://observatory.global/stories/horizon-2030/) [Story · Orbit **Orbits as infrastructure** Low orbits are fast and crowded, high orbits slow and spacious. Every choice of altitude is a trade between delay, footprint and how long the satellite…](https://observatory.global/stories/orbit/) [Story · Data provenance chain **From sensor to record** A published observation should carry its own history: which instrument made it, when, under which calibration, and every step since. The web already has a…](https://observatory.global/stories/provenance/) ### 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 **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 · Private 5G · Port **Private 5G at a container port** Small cells on the yard lighting masts and a sector site on the operations building serve remote-controlled cranes and trucks among steel container stacks.](https://observatory.global/environments/networks/private5g-port/) [Network scene · Private 5G · Mining **Private 5G in an open-pit mine** A 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.](https://observatory.global/environments/networks/private5g-mine/) ### Heritage observatories [Heritage observatory · Low Earth orbit · 1990 **Hubble Space Telescope** A 2.4-metre telescope above the atmosphere, launched in 1990 with a mirror ground to the wrong shape and fixed three years later by astronauts.](https://observatory.global/observatories/hubble/) [Heritage observatory · Low Earth orbit (launched from Cape Canaveral) · 1960 **TIROS-1** On 1 April 1960 a 120-kilogram drum with two television cameras was launched from Cape Canaveral and sent back the first pictures of clouds from space.](https://observatory.global/observatories/tiros-1/) ### 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** Areas ## Test and qualification, area by area. Choose an area for its systems, standards, the industries it serves and how we deliver it. [01 Lab testing Environmental, RF, power and EMC, on the bench. Open the area →](https://observatory.global/qualification/lab-testing/) [02 Field trials On a real site, against a written plan. Open the area →](https://observatory.global/qualification/field-trials/) [03 Conformance Run the protocol suite, publish the result. Open the area →](https://observatory.global/qualification/conformance/) [04 Interoperability events Many suppliers, one test plan. Open the area →](https://observatory.global/qualification/interoperability-events/) [05 Evidence Every result, signed and kept. Open the area →](https://observatory.global/qualification/evidence/) **02** Open 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 - Conformance tool - Test plans Enterprise, on this site - Device and software qualification - Works-with programme - Field trial management **03** On this site ## Where to go next. [Test and qualification Technologies The layered map of what we build with. Open →](https://observatory.global/qualification/technologies/) [Test and qualification Architecture Layers, functions and evidence. Open →](https://observatory.global/qualification/architecture/) [Test and qualification Industries The industry sites built on this platform. Open →](https://observatory.global/qualification/industries/) [Test and qualification Resources Explainer, stories, specification and forms. Open →](https://observatory.global/qualification/resources/) ## Bring us the site. We bring the survey, the design and the crew. The form names who receives your details. 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