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Design and integration, area by area.

Each area of the platform has its own page: the systems in it, the standards it is drawn against, the industries it serves and how we deliver it.

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Areas · 5 Technologies · 190 Industries · 4

At a glance

System design

Requirements to architecture, drawn against the standards. The page on system design sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. System design against the reference architecture, engineering packs a contractor can build from, multi-vendor integration on typed interfaces, and programme delivery across many sites with one plan, one schedule and one evidence record.

Tatizo

One accountable integrator, site to grid

The products and services of Design and integration start with system design, engineering, multi-vendor integration and programme delivery. System design against the reference architecture, engineering packs a contractor can build from, multi-vendor integration on typed interfaces, and programme delivery across many sites with one plan, one schedule and one evidence record.

Components

  • Pole-mounted edge gateway node
  • Overhead line sensor on a distribution span
  • Automatic weather station (AWS) to WMO siting practice
  • Distribution pole transformer and meter cabinet
  • Private LTE mast on a solar skid
  • “AI tower in a box”
  • Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment
  • Operations console with a video wall

Interfaces

Vyombo
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

  • Acceptance
  • Programme delivery

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 · 13

Next steps

Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Design and integrationSee Engineering
  1. Design and integration · Areas

    One accountable integrator, site to grid

    The products and services of Design and integration start with system design, engineering, multi-vendor integration and programme delivery. System design against the reference architecture, engineering packs a contractor can build from, multi-vendor integration on typed interfaces, and programme delivery across many sites with one plan, one schedule and one evidence record.

  2. Area · System design

    System design

    Requirements to architecture, drawn against the standards. The page on system design sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. System design against the reference architecture, engineering packs a contractor can build from, multi-vendor integration on typed interfaces, and programme delivery across many sites with one plan, one schedule and one evidence record.

    See System design
  3. Area · Acceptance

    Acceptance

    Tested against the plan, signed off on evidence. The page on acceptance sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. System design against the reference architecture, engineering packs a contractor can build from, multi-vendor integration on typed interfaces, and programme delivery across many sites with one plan, one schedule and one evidence record.

    See Acceptance
  4. Area · Multi-vendor integration

    Multi-vendor integration

    Many suppliers, one interface contract. The page on multi-vendor integration sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. System design against the reference architecture, engineering packs a contractor can build from, multi-vendor integration on typed interfaces, and programme delivery across many sites with one plan, one schedule and one evidence record.

    See Multi-vendor integration
  5. Area · Programme delivery

    Programme delivery

    Many sites, one plan and one schedule. The page on programme delivery sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. System design against the reference architecture, engineering packs a contractor can build from, multi-vendor integration on typed interfaces, and programme delivery across many sites with one plan, one schedule and one evidence record.

    See Programme delivery
  6. Time and place

    When and where, on every record

    On a network for Design and integration, when and where are part of every record: a disciplined clock, from satellite time or a PTP grandmaster, and the station’s surveyed position. A degraded clock or position is written into the record for Design and integration, never hidden, and every user downstream sees the same flag.

  7. Area · Engineering

    Uhandisi

    Design packs, bills of materials and drawings. The page on engineering sets out the technologies it uses, the standards they follow and how we deliver it. System design against the reference architecture, engineering packs a contractor can build from, multi-vendor integration on typed interfaces, and programme delivery across many sites with one plan, one schedule and one evidence record.

    See Engineering
  8. Imani

    Proved before it is trusted

    Every node on a network for Design and integration proves what it is before it is admitted, by answering an attestation challenge from its hardware root of trust. From then on, its keys stay in secure hardware, its software is signed, and every record it makes for Design and integration can be traced to it.

  9. Ushahidi

    Standards an auditor can check

    An auditor of a network for Design and integration finds metadata to WIGOS and ISO 19115, observations through OGC SensorThings and exchange through WIS 2.0. Releases, calibrations and admissions for Design and integration are kept as signed records, so every claim can be checked against the standard behind it.

  10. Taarifa mpya

    Updates in rings, with rollback

    No change reaches a whole fleet for Design and integration at once: software and configuration go to one canary site first, then to a few, then to all. Each ring for Design and integration passes only on health and data completeness, and a failed check returns every node to its last good release.

  11. How it scales

    One base unit, repeated

    A network for Design and integration grows from one proven unit: a base node, its instruments, then the power and radio that make it a station. A relay turns stations into a site, a fleet repeats the site in many places, and capacity for Design and integration rises with each unit added, never by replacing what works.

  12. What you get

    Open where it can be, contracted where it must be

    Anyone can use and build on the protocol, the methods and the open data behind Design and integration, free of charge. Under contract, Nexus Observatory Inc. builds and runs the sites, fleets and data tiers for Design and integration, priced per site and per fleet, with service levels written as numbers.

  13. Next step

    Design and integration, planned with you

    Tell us which products and services of Design and integration you need, for which sites and by when. An engineer replies with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for Design and integration, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need.

    Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Design and integration

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

In depth

Use case Street flood observatoryISIC section · ISIC O Public administration and defence; compulsory social securityISIC section · ISIC Q Human health and social work activitiesUse case Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weather

Explainers

Explainer · Government and public safety Government and public safetyWildfire cameras on real terrain, GBON station density, street-flood alert thresholds, CAP alerting with the authority in the loop and the radio horizon of a deployable cell.Explainer · Development and humanitarian Development and humanitarian, explainedJukwaa Design and integrationMany suppliers, nobody accountableJukwaa Sensors & instrumentsA number without its story

Stories

Story · Federation across agencies Many agencies, one pictureNo single agency observes everything it needs. Federation lets each keep its own systems and still share: common interfaces, common catalogues and common…Story · Resilient operations When the links failObserving systems matter most on the days infrastructure fails. Designing for that day means local autonomy, stored power, store-and-forward delivery and…Story · End to end An observation grid, end to endAn 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…

Places and networks

Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Mountain valley siteA private 5G tower, an automatic weather station, a compact radar and a seismic vault on real alpine terrain, joined to an edge data centre that admits, times and publishes every…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 Ground stationAn 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.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.Network scene · NTN · Satellite Satellite direct to device in a mountain valleyWhere 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.

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 · United States · 1921 Caltech Seismological LaboratoryA laboratory in Pasadena that gave earthquakes a number. The Richter magnitude scale of 1935 depended on one instrument type in many places, a lesson as relevant to networks today…

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.

01Maeneo

Design and integration, area by area.

Choose an area for its systems, standards, the industries it serves and how we deliver it.

01

System design

Requirements to architecture, drawn against the standards. Open the area →
02

Uhandisi

Design packs, bills of materials and drawings. Open the area →
03

Multi-vendor integration

Many suppliers, one interface contract. Open the area →
04

Programme delivery

Many sites, one plan and one schedule. Open the area →
05

Acceptance

Tested against the plan, signed off on evidence. Open the area →

02Open 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

  • Reference architecture
  • Interface contracts

Enterprise, on this site

  • National observing network programmes
  • Systems integration
  • Programme management

03Kwenye tovuti hii

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Design and integration, area by area.

Bring us the site.

We bring the survey, the design and the crew. The form names who receives your details.