--- title: "Test and qualification platform | Nexus Observatory" description: "Qualification: equipment proven in the lab, in the field and against the specification. A lab chamber and a mast in the field." url: https://observatory.global/qualification/ publisher: Nexus Observatory Inc. updated: 2026-11-07 --- Qualification: equipment proven in the lab, in the field and against the specification. The loop, step by step: 1. A lab chamber and a mast in the field. 2. Sensor, link, edge and console stand ready. 3. A device passes its heat and cold cycles. 4. Each reading is stamped with time and place. 5. The result is signed by the test rig. 6. The record reaches the evidence rack. 7. Relays carry the packets without reading them. 8. Signatures are checked before any model runs. 9. The rack ties it to the device’s serial. 10. The edge releases confirmed results only. 11. The same device repeats the test on the mast. 12. Instruments confirm the response took effect. 13. The two records agree in the file. 14. The alert arrives with its evidence attached. 15. Record, proof and action are archived together. 16. Everything settles back to idle. 01 / 16 A lab chamber and a mast in the field Nexus Observatory / **Test and qualification** # Tested against the specification. State on record. 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. [Plan with us](https://observatory.global/contact/) Reference architecture [The open protocol](https://observatory.global/protocol/) At a glance ## Tested against the specification, state on record Test and qualification delivers lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events and evidence bundles anyone can check. Results are published as evidence bundles that anyone can verify without asking for our help. The problem ### Claims are easy; evidence is rare Datasheets promise performance in conditions nobody's site will see. Buyers, auditors and regulators need results they can check, from tests they can repeat. Without independent, repeatable tests, every comparison between suppliers is a comparison between marketing documents; qualification replaces claims with measured results, published either way. Key facts **Practice**: IEC 60068 environmental · ISO/IEC 17025 calibration practice 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 - On a real site, against a written plan - Many suppliers, one test plan 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 · 18 Next steps [Plan a deployment](https://observatory.global/qualification/contact/deployment/) [See conformance](https://observatory.global/protocol/conformance/) [Talk to sales](https://observatory.global/contact/sales-enquiry/) [Partner with us](https://observatory.global/contact/partner/) 1. The problem Claims are easy; evidence is rare Datasheets promise performance in conditions nobody's site will see. Buyers, auditors and regulators need results they can check, from tests they can repeat. Without independent, repeatable tests, every comparison between suppliers is a comparison between marketing documents; qualification replaces claims with measured results, published either way. 2. What it does Tested against the specification, state on record Test and qualification delivers lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events and evidence bundles anyone can check. Results are published as evidence bundles that anyone can verify without asking for our help. 3. Field trials On a real site, against a written plan What passes the bench goes to a real site with a trial plan, reference instruments and acceptance criteria written before the trial starts. Trials end with a report that states what worked, what did not and what was changed during the trial. [See Field trials](https://observatory.global/qualification/field-trials/) 4. Lab testing Environmental, RF, power and EMC, on the bench Devices are exposed to temperature, humidity, vibration and power disturbances, and their RF and EMC behaviour is measured, against a written test plan. Test equipment is calibrated and its records are kept with every result, so the measurement itself can be trusted. PracticeIEC 60068 environmental · ISO/IEC 17025 calibration practice [See Lab testing](https://observatory.global/qualification/lab-testing/) 5. The system One station, part by part Before anything is installed, the station is laid out as its parts: instrument, logger and edge compute, secure element, GNSS timing, radio, power, enclosure, wiring, earthing, mast and foundation. 6. Assembly Built and tested before it ships Each part is fitted to the pole and the enclosure, wired through surge protection to one earth, powered and bench-tested until it signs its first reading. 7. Installation Installed on site The crew arrives with the tested kit: foundation, mast raised and guyed, instruments mounted, cables run in conduit, the enclosure fitted out and the site commissioned. 8. Deployment Site after site, one design The same station goes in at every site on the plan, each commissioned against the same checklist, until the field is covered. 9. Wiring Signal, power and time, wired Inside one site the instrument’s signal pair runs to the logger, solar charges the battery that feeds the load, GNSS time reaches the clock and the logger hands its records to the radio. 10. Interoperability Many suppliers, one test plan At interoperability events suppliers test against each other on one plan, and the matrix of results shows buyers which combinations work. Every combination tested is recorded, so a buyer can see which devices have been proven to work together. Problems found at the event are fixed before the field finds them. [See Interoperability events](https://observatory.global/qualification/interoperability-events/) 11. Connections Backhaul, time and power The relay carries every site to the edge over a point-to-point link, the grandmaster’s time reaches every clock, and each site keeps its power through the night. 12. Conformance Run the protocol suite, publish the result Devices and software run the protocol's conformance suite; the result is signed and published, pass or fail, with the version tested. A failed result is published as clearly as a pass, so buyers know exactly what has and has not been shown. [See Conformance](https://observatory.global/qualification/conformance/) [See conformance](https://observatory.global/protocol/conformance/) 13. Evidence Every result, signed and kept Results are bundled with the test plan, the equipment used and its calibration, signed and kept, so anyone can check them later without asking. Bundles are signed and versioned, so a result can be traced to the exact product and plan that produced it. [See Evidence](https://observatory.global/qualification/evidence/) 14. After release Field performance feeds back to the lab Once a product is in the fleet, its field failures and drift are compared with what the lab predicted. Where they differ, the test plan is improved, so the next product of the class is tested against what the field really does to equipment. 15. Releases Every release qualified before it ships Software releases pass regression and conformance tests before any rollout ring, and their results travel with them to the fleet. A release that fails is held back, and its results are kept so the fix can be checked against them. 16. How it scales One test plan, many products Test plans are written per device class, so every new product of a class is measured the same way and results stay comparable across suppliers and years. A device tested this year can be compared fairly with one tested years ago, because the plan, the equipment and the method are recorded with each result. 17. What you get Qualification and the works-with programme The conformance tool and test plans are open. Device and software qualification, the works-with programme and field trial management are contracted. Works-with testing gives makers a recognised way to show their products join any grid built on the specification, with results published either way. [Talk to sales](https://observatory.global/contact/sales-enquiry/) [Partner with us](https://observatory.global/contact/partner/) 18. Next step Qualify your device Tell us the device or release and where it must work. We propose the test plan and the schedule; the test plan states what will be measured, against which requirement and with which equipment, before testing starts. We start with the requirement it must meet. [Plan a deployment](https://observatory.global/qualification/contact/deployment/) [See conformance](https://observatory.global/protocol/conformance/) 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 **Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weather**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/utility-grid-edge/) [Use case **Northern civil observatory**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/northern-civil/) [Use case **Citizen seismology node**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/citizen-seismology/) [Use case **Deployable incident observatory**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/deployable-incident/) ### 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/) ### 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 · Private 5G and AI-RAN **Private 5G with the inference in the radio** A 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…](https://observatory.global/stories/private-5g-ai-ran/) ### 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 · 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 · Earth orbit · 1972 **Landsat programme** Since 1972 the same kind of satellite has photographed the same patches of land, building the longest continuous record of the Earth's surface from space.](https://observatory.global/observatories/landsat/) [Heritage observatory · Switzerland · 2020 **WMO Integrated Global Observing System** A framework, not a building: shared rules, identifiers and metadata that let the observing systems of nearly 200 countries and many partners act as one.](https://observatory.global/observatories/wmo-wigos/) ### 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** · What this platform covers ## 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.](https://observatory.global/qualification/lab-testing/) [02 Field trials On a real site, against a written plan.](https://observatory.global/qualification/field-trials/) [03 Conformance Run the protocol suite, publish the result.](https://observatory.global/qualification/conformance/) [04 Interoperability events Many suppliers, one test plan.](https://observatory.global/qualification/interoperability-events/) [05 Evidence Every result, signed and kept.](https://observatory.global/qualification/evidence/) **02** · Built on the open protocol ## One protocol under every platform. Marked: the functions this platform leans on hardest. The protocol itself is open, so what you build here runs anywhere the protocol runs. 01 JOIN 02 ADMIT 03 DESCRIBE 04 TIME 05 OBSERVE 06 QUALIFY 07 FEDERATE 08 ORCHESTRATE **03** · 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 **04** · Industries served ## The industries that build on test and qualification. Each industry has its own site: its use cases, its community and the enterprise path, with this platform among the systems behind it. [Industry **Government** National observing infrastructure, delivered as one programme.](https://observatory.global/industries/government/) [Industry **Telecom** Towers that compute, sense and connect.](https://observatory.global/industries/telecom/) [Industry **Industry** Plants and ports, sensed and connected.](https://observatory.global/industries/industry/) [Industry **Research** Instruments for science, run like infrastructure.](https://observatory.global/industries/research/) **05** · Every platform ## Every platform, one architecture. One platform for each technical area of our work, on the same protocol, the same data and the same design. 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