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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 before you plan it.
ExplainerSensors & instruments, explained
The platform in 3D, chapter by chapter.Open the explainer →OverviewSensors & instruments
Measurements that carry their own proof.Back to the overview →StudioField 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.
Dense city blockThe instrumented street
Four city blocks, read as an observing system: small cells on street poles, air-quality and heat sensors beside them, and an edge node that corrects, times…Read the story →SuburbThe suburb as a power station
Rooftop solar, home batteries and electric vehicles turn a residential street into thousands of small generators. Observing them is how a distribution grid…Read the story →Rural villageA village at the end of the line
Where the fibre ends, a single mast, a satellite terminal and a handful of sensors decide whether a village is on the map of observation. Canada’s target is…Read the story →Remote northern communityObservation 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 →FarmlandField to forecast
A farm observes water: in the soil, in the crop and in the air above it. Crop water use is computed from weather with a method agronomists have shared for…Read the story →Forest and wildfireSeeing smoke sooner
A fire is cheapest to fight in its first hour. Ridge-top cameras, weather in the stand and satellite hot spots each see it at different times and scales;…Read the story →River basin and floodsRising water, counted in metres
A flood map is a sentence about the future: this ground lies below that level. Gauges along the valley, a weather station and a terrain model turn the…Read the story →Coast and portThe port that sees the approach
A port observes three things at once: the ships coming in, the sea they come through and the cranes that receive them. Ship identity travels on a radio…Read the story →Mountains and avalanche terrainSnowpack, slope and signal
Avalanche forecasting reasons about the likelihood and size of avalanches on given terrain. The observations behind it come from a few stations in hard…Read the story →ArcticInstruments at the edge of the cryosphere
The Arctic has warmed about three to four times faster than the global average, depending on the period and the dataset. The instruments that showed it are…Read the story →Desert and dustDust, heat and the solar field
In deserts, dust is weather. It reaches cities as air pollution, crosses oceans, and settles on solar panels: soiling cost global solar output at least…Read the story →OceanThe ocean below the surface
Most of the ocean’s heat lies below what satellites can see. Profiling floats drifting at depth and surfacing to report have measured it routinely since the…Read the story →End to endAn observation grid, end to end
An observation is not a reading. It is a reading with a place, a time, a calibration and a path that anyone can follow back. An observing grid is the…Read the story →LPWAN and meshKilometres on a coin cell
Most environmental sensors send a few bytes a few times an hour. Low-power wide-area networks trade bandwidth for range and battery life; mesh networks…Read the story →Digital twin of a siteA digital twin that keeps its sources
A digital twin is a model of a physical asset kept current by observation of it. The hard part is not the geometry; it is keeping every value in the model…Read the story →6G and sensingNetworks that sense
The framework for 6G names integrated sensing and communication as one of its usage scenarios: the same radio that carries data also measures range,…Read the story →03Documentation
The open specification and its tools.
OpenSpecification
Functions, state machines, objects and flows.Read →OpenDevelopers
Software kits, agents and worked examples.Read →OpenConformance
Run the suite, publish the result.Read →OpenOpen 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.
FormRequest a hardware quote
Nodes, racks, power and masts: quantities, site conditions and delivery.Open the form →FormPlan a deployment
Tell us the site, the sector and the timeline. An engineer replies.Open the form →FormGet support
Something does not work, or you need a hand with a system you run.Open the form →FormWrite 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.
Sensors & instrumentsAreas
Every area, with its systems and standards.Open →Sensors & instrumentsTechnologies
The layered map of what we build with.Open →Sensors & instrumentsArchitecture
Layers, functions and evidence.Open →Sensors & instrumentsIndustries
The industry sites built on this platform.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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