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Every technology this platform builds with, layer by layer, from the open taxonomy. Marked in red: what is moving now, each traced to its source.

Areas · 6 Technologies · 124 Industries · 3

01The layered map

Layer by layer, from the open taxonomy.

Each domain this platform draws on, with its layers and the technologies in each. Open a layer for what each technology does and the standard behind it.

Compute and edge

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.

Edge tiers and multi-access edge computing

Technologies · 9 · Frontier · 1

• Device edge
• Far edge
• Near edge
• Regional edge
• MEC application enablement
• MEC service APIs
• Application mobility and edge federation
• Edge-cloud continuum
• Data residency and jurisdiction controls

Modular edge data centres and the AI tower in a box

Technologies · 8

• AI tower in a box
• Prefabricated and containerised modules
• Telecom and IT power systems
• Renewable and hybrid microgrids
• Physical security
• Fire detection and suppression
• Northern and permafrost site design
• Commissioning and site acceptance

Servers and accelerators

Technologies · 8 · Frontier · 1

• Short-depth and ruggedised edge servers
• GPUs
• NPUs and inference accelerators
• FPGAs
• DPUs and SmartNICs
• Memory and interconnect
• Chiplets and die-to-die interconnect
• Out-of-band management

Storage and edge data management

Technologies · 6

• NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics
• Object and file storage at the edge
• Storage security and media sanitisation
• Buffering for intermittent links
• Time-series and geospatial data stores
• Replication, backup and retention

Cooling and ruggedisation

Technologies · 10 · Frontier · 1

• Air cooling and containment
• Direct-to-chip liquid cooling
• Single-phase immersion cooling
• Two-phase immersion cooling
• Free cooling and heat reuse
• Ingress protection and enclosures
• Environmental testing
• Hazardous locations
• Substation, rail and industrial environments
• Electrical safety of equipment

Kubernetes and fleet orchestration

Technologies · 8

• Kubernetes at the edge
• Fleet and multi-cluster management
• Bare-metal and zero-touch provisioning
• Network function orchestration
• Accelerator scheduling and sharing
• Observability
• Disconnected and intermittent operation
• Container security and multi-tenancy

OTA updates, GitOps and software supply chain

Technologies · 8

• GitOps
• Secure update frameworks
• Device management
• Firmware resiliency and recovery
• Software bills of materials
• Build provenance
• Secure development for industrial components
• Staged rollout and rollback

Confidential computing and hardware trust

Technologies · 8 · Frontier · 2

• Trusted execution environments
• Remote attestation
• Device identity and roots of trust
• Secure and measured boot
• Key management and hardware security modules
• Confidential AI on accelerators
• Zero trust at the edge
• Post-quantum readiness for edge fleets

Data, software and interoperability

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.

Ingest and streaming

Technologies · 8

• Publish-subscribe telemetry
• Message queuing between services
• Event envelopes
• Event-driven API descriptions
• Meteorological data exchange
• Schemas and data contracts
• Timestamps and time zones
• Edge filtering and store-and-forward

Storage and data lakes

Technologies · 6

• Time-series stores
• Columnar data lakes
• Array stores for cubes and models
• Spatial databases
• Tiered storage and retention
• Long-term preservation

Metadata, provenance and catalogues

Technologies · 8 · Frontier · 1

• Provenance
• Lineage in geographic metadata
• Dataset catalogues
• Asset catalogues
• WMO discovery metadata
• Persistent identifiers and citation
• Controlled vocabularies and units
• Content credentials for media

Open standards and interoperability

Technologies · 7

• OGC SensorThings API
• OGC API – Connected Systems
• Observation models and ontologies
• OPC UA information models
• Context information management
• Asset administration shell
• Hydro and met data encodings

APIs and SDKs

Technologies · 7

• API descriptions
• OGC API building blocks
• Authorisation
• Error reporting
• Quotas, metering and usage records
• SDKs and client libraries
• Webhooks and subscriptions

Licensing, residency and governance

Technologies · 8 · Frontier · 1

• Open data licences
• Data and code licence identifiers
• FAIR data practice
• Indigenous data governance
• Data residency by contract
• Cross-border transfer rules
• Data sharing agreements
• Data spaces

Digital twins and observability

Technologies · 7

• Digital twin concepts
• Twin frameworks for equipment and sites
• Telemetry for software
• Metrics exposition
• Network and device management interfaces
• Data quality monitoring
• Service level objectives

Open protocol interfaces and federation

Technologies · 8 · Frontier · 2

• Node roles and profiles
• Enrolment and admission state machines
• Observation envelope
• Signed orchestration plans
• Conformance testing
• Grid federation
• Federated learning across grids
• Privacy-preserving analytics

02Across the network

The whole spectrum, on the main site.

03On this site

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