Field operations and lifecycle
Records management
Authentic, reliable and retrievable records for every site and asset.
We design, operate and maintain.
ISO 15489-1:2016 · ISO 9001:2015 (documented information)
Reporting: the month’s records compiled into the customer report, each figure traceable. The loop, step by step: 1. An archive, a report and a reader. 2. Sensor, link, edge and console stand ready. 3. The month closes and the archive freezes. 4. Each reading is stamped with time and place. 5. The edge verifies every signature first. 6. Figures are computed from the signed record. 7. Only a confirmed result leaves the edge. 8. The report is built from those figures. 9. Relays carry the packets without reading them. 10. It is sealed with a signature and a date. 11. The reader opens it at the desk. 12. The alert arrives with its evidence attached. 13. Each number links back to its source. 14. Sensors check that the response worked. 15. The whole chain is archived for audit. 16. Everything settles back to idle.
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An archive, a report and a reader
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ReportingUptime, completeness and repairs, on record.
Reporting, inside Operations centre: records management, inspection records, provenance, energy metering. Every item is traced to its specification, from ISO 15489-1:2016 to ISO 9001:2015 (documented information), and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.
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At a glance
Records management
Authentic, reliable and retrievable records for every site and asset. In reporting, part of Operations centre, the health, safety and evidence records layer holds records management, drawn against ISO 15489-1:2016 and ISO 9001:2015. We build it into every site for reporting against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
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Uptime, completeness and repairs, on record
Networks generate alarms day and night. Without a team that owns them, alarms are muted, incidents repeat and service levels are argued about instead of measured. Nobody can say how well the network is really performing, or what each outage cost the people relying on it.
Key facts
- Specification
- ISO 15489-1:2016 · ISO 9001:2015 (documented information)
- Specification
- IEC 62053 series (electricity metering)
- Specification
- ISO/IEC 17020 (inspection bodies)
- Specification
- W3C PROV-O · W3C PROV-DM
- Viwango
- ISO 15489-1:2016 · ISO 9001:2015 · W3C PROV-O · W3C PROV-DM
Components
- Rugged field tablet on a mast bracket
- Particulate monitoring station and sensor node
- Radar stream gauge on a road bridge
- Street small-cell pole with an air-quality node
- “AI tower in a box”
- Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment
- Network operations centre with a curved video wall
- Field-service crew vehicle
Interfaces
- Radio
- Wi-Fi · LTE / 5G
Where it works
- Inspection records
In the story below
- The system, part by part
- Assembly
- Installation
- Deployment
- Connections
- Operation
- Failure and recovery
- Scale and federation
- What you get
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Uptime, completeness and repairs, on record
Networks generate alarms day and night. Without a team that owns them, alarms are muted, incidents repeat and service levels are argued about instead of measured. Nobody can say how well the network is really performing, or what each outage cost the people relying on it.
What it does
Records management
Authentic, reliable and retrievable records for every site and asset. In reporting, part of Operations centre, the health, safety and evidence records layer holds records management, drawn against ISO 15489-1:2016 and ISO 9001:2015. We build it into every site for reporting against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- ISO 15489-1:2016 · ISO 9001:2015 (documented information)
Energy management and monitoring
Energy metering
Revenue and sub-metering for loads, generation and tenants. In reporting, part of Operations centre, the energy management and monitoring layer holds energy metering, drawn against IEC 62053 series. We build it into every site for reporting against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- IEC 62053 series (electricity metering)
Health, safety and evidence records
Inspection records
Structured inspection reports with findings, photos and sign-off. In reporting, part of Operations centre, the health, safety and evidence records layer holds inspection records, drawn against ISO/IEC 17020. We build it into every site for reporting against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- ISO/IEC 17020 (inspection bodies)
Time and place
When and where, on every record
Every record made for reporting carries its time, from a clock disciplined by satellite time or a PTP grandmaster, with the position and siting record of the station that made it. When time or position degrades, the record for reporting says so, and every user downstream sees the same warning.
Metadata, provenance and catalogues
Provenance
Who and what produced each value, from which inputs, by which process and when. In reporting, part of Operations centre, the metadata, provenance and catalogues layer holds provenance, drawn against W3C PROV-O and W3C PROV-DM. We build it into every site for reporting against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- W3C PROV-O · W3C PROV-DM
Imani
Proved before it is trusted
A node joins a network for reporting only after its hardware root of trust answers an attestation challenge. Its keys stay in secure hardware, its software arrives signed and every record it makes for reporting carries a signature, so anyone downstream can check where a value came from.
Ushahidi
Traced to its specifications
We trace each part of reporting to its specification: ISO 15489-1:2016, ISO 9001:2015 and W3C PROV-O. We keep the versions, configurations and test results of reporting as signed records, so a buyer or an auditor can check what was delivered against what was specified.
- Viwango
- ISO 15489-1:2016 · ISO 9001:2015 · W3C PROV-O · W3C PROV-DM
Operations
Every node watched, every incident closed
The operations console shows every node of a network for reporting with its state, its plan and its evidence. An alert arrives with its data and a runbook, acknowledging it opens a work order, and an incident for reporting closes only when the operator records the cause and verifies the fix.
Taarifa mpya
Updates in rings, with rollback
Software and configuration reach a fleet for reporting in rings: one canary site first, then a few, then all, each ring gated on health and data completeness. A failed gate stops the wave, and each node for reporting returns to its last good release without a site visit.
How it scales
One base unit, repeated
A network for reporting starts with one base node and the instruments it reads. A station adds power and radio, a site adds a relay and a fleet repeats the proven site, so capacity for reporting grows by adding units, never by replacing what works.
Managed services
We run it; you use what it observes
The status and incident record format is open. Managed Site, network operations and service-level reporting are contracted; pricing follows the sites and the service levels chosen, and changes as the network grows. You keep the data and the records; we keep the network healthy, updated, calibrated and repaired to the levels agreed.
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Reporting, planned with you
Tell us the sites, the systems reporting must work with and the outcome you need, with a map or a list of addresses if you have one. An engineer replies with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for reporting, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need.
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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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Explainer · Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use) Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use) — SectorsLawful civil dual-use sensing only: northern observatories, satellite reach at high latitude, maritime safety and ice, and critical-infrastructure resilience.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.Jukwaa Operations centreAlarms nobody ownsJukwaa Field servicesSites fail between contractorsStories
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Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Wildfire forestCamera masts on the ridges, a weather station in the stand and a private cell: the red ground is what the ridge camera can see.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 River basinWater-level gauges along a river valley floor, a weather station and an edge node: the red isoline is the ground that lies within a few metres of the lowest point of the reach.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.Network scene · IoT · Mesh IoT in the city: a street-light mesh and LoRaWANStreet-light controllers form a radio mesh that routes around a failed node to its border router, while meters and sensors report to a rooftop LoRaWAN gateway.Heritage observatories
Heritage observatory · Global network of about 150 stations; USGS and EarthScope (formerly IRIS) partnership · 1984 Global Seismographic NetworkAbout 150 digital broadband seismic stations in some 80 countries, sending data to open archives within minutes.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 · Plan a site Field Deployment StudioTerrain, devices, coverage, viewshed, power and the best spot for a station, then a deployment request with the plan attached.01Ni nini
Health, safety and evidence records.
Everything that happens on the ground across a site’s life: survey, permits, design packs, logistics, installation, acceptance, training, operations, maintenance, upgrades, decommission and recycling, done safely and recorded as evidence. 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. How a remote site is powered, stored, distributed, cooled, sealed, tested, grounded, held up and kept safe, from a solar-powered sensor to a hybrid microgrid on a guyed mast. Each technology below carries what it is, what we do with it, and the standard it is drawn against.
Field operations and lifecycle
Inspection records
Structured inspection reports with findings, photos and sign-off.
We deploy, operate and maintain.
ISO/IEC 17020 (inspection bodies)
Data, software and interoperability
Provenance
Who and what produced each value, from which inputs, by which process and when.
We design, integrate and operate.
W3C PROV-O · W3C PROV-DM
Power, energy and ruggedisation
Energy metering
Revenue and sub-metering for loads, generation and tenants.
We design, integrate and operate.
IEC 62053 series (electricity metering)
02Architecture
Where it sits, and what it speaks.
Reporting draws on the spectrum below; the highlighted layers carry this area, and the protocol functions it speaks are marked.
Edge tiers and multi-access edge computing
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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
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Device identity and attestation
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PKI, secure boot and updates
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Zero trust and network security
7
5G and wireless security
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OT security and software supply chain
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Privacy and data protection
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Keys, cryptography and post-quantum migration
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Monitoring, incident response and governance
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01Jiunge Identity, attestation quote, signed policy.
02Admit Admitted for a stated scope, nothing wider.
03Eleza What, where, how and by whom, with calibration.
04Time One clock across the grid, with its error bound.
05Observe Every value with quality and provenance.
06Qualify Tested against the specification, state on record.
07Federate Signed exchange across grids and trust domains.
08Orchestrate Software and configuration by signed plan.
09Correct A correction marks what depends on it and publishes a new version.
10Exchange Products reach people and applications through versioned interfaces.
11Prove Signed proof receipts that an independent verifier can check.
12Exit and decommission An open exit path, and a record that closes.
03On 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.
The observing grid
- Open instruments on the observing grid.
04In the field
Where this runs, sector by sector.
Deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on reporting.
Environment and climateMethane fenceline and site-level continuous monitoring
Regulatory cadences in the EU and reporting levels in voluntary frameworks.Government and public safetyNational GBON surface and upper-air network
WMO-grade stations reporting through WIS 2.0, funded through the systematic-observations financing pathway.Government and public safetyDeployable communications and sensing for incident command
A cell on wheels with satellite backhaul, mesh telemetry and environment nodes at the incident base.IndustrialMine-wide private LTE or 5G with environmental sensing
Autonomy communications plus dust, blast vibration, slope and tailings monitoring.IndustrialContinuous methane monitoring
Fenceline sensors and optical gas imaging under regulatory leak-detection cadences.KilimoFarm or cooperative agromet network with crop models
Compact stations and soil probes feeding irrigation, disease and frost models.05Open 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
- Status and incident record format
Enterprise, on this site
- Managed Site
- Network operations
- Service-level reporting
06The rest of the line
Operations centre, area by area.
Operations centreUfuatiliaji
Fleets, sites and links, in one view.Operations centreIncident response
From first alarm to root cause.Operations centreManaged services
We run it; you use what it observes.Operations centreService levels
Written as numbers you can measure.Bring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for reporting. The form names who receives your details.
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