--- title: "Integrations: Software | Nexus Observatory" description: "Integrations, inside Software: open data licences, data and code licence identifiers, FAIR data practice, indigenous data governance and more." url: https://observatory.global/software/integrations/ publisher: Nexus Observatory Inc. updated: 2026-10-27 --- [Nexus Observatory](https://observatory.global/) / [Software](https://observatory.global/software/) / **Integrations** # SCADA, GIS and data platforms, by typed contract. Integrations, inside Software: open data licences, data and code licence identifiers, FAIR data practice, indigenous data governance and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from Creative Commons BY 4.0 to ODbL 1.0, and runs on the open Observatory Protocol. [Plan with us](https://observatory.global/contact/) Architecture [The protocol](https://observatory.global/protocol/specification/) **Technologies**: 9 **At the frontier**: 1 **Protocol functions**: 3 of 8 **Industries served**: 3 Reference design, drawn to scale · drag to turn · hover a part **01** What it is ## Licensing, residency and governance. How observations move from the edge into stores, catalogues and APIs with their provenance, licence and residency attached, and how they interoperate through open standards and the open Observatory Protocol. Compute placed where data is produced and decisions are needed: the device, far, near and regional edge tiers, multi-access edge computing, modular edge data centres including the AI tower in a box, servers and accelerators, storage, power and cooling, ruggedisation, fleet orchestration, OTA and GitOps, and the hardware trust that makes remote sites safe to run. Each technology below carries what it is, what we do with it, and the standard it is drawn against. Data, software and interoperability ### Open data licences Attribution and share-alike licences that govern reuse of open products. We design and operate. Creative Commons BY 4.0 · ODbL 1.0 · Open Government Licence - Canada 2.0 Data, software and interoperability ### Data and code licence identifiers Standard identifiers so every dataset and package states its licence unambiguously. We design and operate. SPDX License List · CDLA-Permissive-2.0 Data, software and interoperability ### FAIR data practice Making data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. We design and operate. FAIR Guiding Principles (Wilkinson et al., 2016) Data, software and interoperability ### Indigenous data governance Respecting Indigenous rights to own, control, access and possess data about their lands and communities. We design, operate and support. OCAP principles (First Nations Information Governance Centre) · CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance Data, software and interoperability ### Data residency by contract Storing and processing data in contracted jurisdictions with recorded locations and key custody. We design and operate. Treasury Board of Canada Policy on Service and Digital · ISO/IEC 27018 (PII in public clouds) Data, software and interoperability ### Cross-border transfer rules Conditions under which personal and regulated data may leave a jurisdiction. We design and support. Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Chapter V · Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (Data Act) Data, software and interoperability ### Data sharing agreements Agreements that set purpose, access, retention and onward sharing between parties. We design and support. ISO/IEC 38505-1 (governance of data) **Frontier** · Data, software and interoperability ### Data spaces Federated sharing where each party keeps control and usage policies travel with the data. We design and integrate. Eclipse Dataspace Protocol · IDSA Rulebook Compute and edge ### NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics Low-latency flash storage locally and across the edge network. We design and integrate. NVM Express specifications **02** Architecture ## Where it sits, and what it speaks. Integrations draws on 2 domains and 16 layers of the spectrum; the highlighted layers carry this area. It speaks 3 of the protocol's 8 core functions. Edge tiers and multi-access edge computing 9 Modular edge data centres and the AI tower in a box 8 Servers and accelerators 8 Storage and edge data management 6 Cooling and ruggedisation 10 Kubernetes and fleet orchestration 8 OTA updates, GitOps and software supply chain 8 Confidential computing and hardware trust 8 Ingest and streaming 8 Storage and data lakes 6 Metadata, provenance and catalogues 8 Open standards and interoperability 7 APIs and SDKs 7 Licensing, residency and governance 8 Digital twins and observability 7 Open protocol interfaces and federation 8 01**Join** Identity, attestation quote, signed policy. 02**Admit** Admitted for a stated scope, nothing wider. 03**Describe** What, where, how and by whom, with calibration. 04**Time** One clock across the grid, with its error bound. 05**Observe** Every value with quality and provenance. 06**Qualify** Tested against the specification, state on record. 07**Federate** Signed exchange across grids and trust domains. 08**Orchestrate** Software and configuration by signed plan. **03** On the grid ## Every site joins one observing grid. The open networks on the grid today, over real relief and the geodesic cells we count them into. A site built here enrols into the same grid. **04** In the field ## Where this runs, sector by sector. 1 deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on integrations. [Government and public safety Alerting integration with the Common Alerting Protocol and cell broadcastSoftware-heavy: sensor triggers feed an alert origination tool; the alert authority keeps every decision.](https://observatory.global/sectors/public-safety/) **05** Open and enterprise ## Open by default. Enterprise by contract. The open counterpart lives on the main site for anyone to read and run. The enterprise service is designed, deployed and operated with you, under contract. Open, on the main site - Node agent and SDKs (licence pending) - App methods with worked examples Enterprise, on this site - Fleet operations - Supported runtime - Team workspaces - Integration engineering **06** The rest of the line ## Software, area by area. [Software Edge runtimeOne runtime from gateway to rack to tower.](https://observatory.global/software/edge-runtime/) [Software Node agentEnrolment, attestation quotes, signed updates.](https://observatory.global/software/node-agent/) [Software FleetEvery node: its state, its plan, its evidence.](https://observatory.global/software/fleet/) [Software Field appsSurvey, commissioning and maintenance, offline first.](https://observatory.global/software/field-apps/) [Software app workspaceCoverage, power and timing, modelled as a team.](https://observatory.global/software/app-workspace/) ## Bring us the site. Survey, design, deployment and operation for integrations. The form names who receives your details. 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