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The explainer, field stories, the open specification and the forms that reach the right team, in one place.

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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.

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In depth

Use case Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weatherSector IndustrialISIC section · ISIC B Mining and quarryingISIC section · ISIC F Construction

Explainers

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 story

Stories

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 · United States · 1961 World-Wide Standardized Seismograph NetworkIn 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…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.

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.

01Start here

See it before you plan it.

Overview

Security and trust

Every node proves what it is. Back to the overview →
Plan a site

Field Deployment Studio

Plan coverage, power and timing on real terrain. Open the Studio →

02Stories

Where this platform is at work.

Field stories from the network, each with the systems in it and the sources behind it.

Remote northern community

Observation the community governs

In a remote northern community, an observing station is also a question of who owns the data, who decides how it is used and who benefits. Principles for… Read the 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… Read the story →
Timing and PNT

Time as infrastructure

A 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… Read the 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… Read the 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… Read the 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,… Read the story →
Post-quantum cryptography

Cryptography that outlasts the quantum computer

Data 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… Read the story →

03Documentation

The open specification and its tools.

Open

Specification

Functions, state machines, objects and flows. Read →
Open

Developers

Software kits, agents and worked examples. Read →
Open

Conformance

Run the suite, publish the result. Read →
Open

Open source

What is open, and on what terms. Read →

04Reach 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 →
Form

Get support

Something does not work, or you need a hand with a system you run. Open the form →
Form

Write to us

Not sure who should read it? Choose a department and we route it. Open the form →

05On this site

Where to go next.

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The layered map of what we build with. Open →
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Architecture

Layers, functions and evidence. Open →
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Industries

The industry sites built on this platform. Open →

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Resources for security and trust.

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