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The technologies behind security and trust.

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.

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Security, identity and trust

How every node proves what it is and what it runs, how links and keys are protected, how software is traced to its source, how personal data is minimised, and how incidents are found and handled. In Security and trust, security, identity and trust covers device identity and attestation, PKI, secure boot and updates, zero trust and network security and 5G and wireless security.

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Every node proves what it is

The technologies of Security and trust start with security, identity and trust. Hardware-rooted identity and attestation at every join, PKI, secure boot and signed updates, segmentation between nodes, tenants and sites, operational-technology and wireless security, monitoring and response, and the move to post-quantum keys, planned before it is forced.

Components

  • Pole-mounted edge gateway node
  • Fixed gas detectors on a drift wall
  • Particulate monitoring station and sensor node
  • Overhead line sensor on a distribution span
  • Private LTE mast on a solar skid
  • “AI tower in a box”
  • Hardware security module, 1U, in an edge rack
  • Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment

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

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 · 12

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  1. Security and trust · Technologies

    Every node proves what it is

    The technologies of Security and trust start with security, identity and trust. Hardware-rooted identity and attestation at every join, PKI, secure boot and signed updates, segmentation between nodes, tenants and sites, operational-technology and wireless security, monitoring and response, and the move to post-quantum keys, planned before it is forced.

  2. Technology · Security, identity and trust

    Security, identity and trust

    How every node proves what it is and what it runs, how links and keys are protected, how software is traced to its source, how personal data is minimised, and how incidents are found and handled. In Security and trust, security, identity and trust covers device identity and attestation, PKI, secure boot and updates, zero trust and network security and 5G and wireless security.

  3. Time and place

    When and where, on every record

    Every record made for Security and trust 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 Security and trust says so, and every user downstream sees the same warning.

  4. Jinsi inavyofanya kazi

    From instrument to record

    On a network for Security and trust, an instrument reads and the base node checks the value, stamps its time and place, signs it and sends it over the link the site has. The edge checks each signature before it admits a record for Security and trust, and the core files the record with its metadata, quality flag and licence.

  5. Imani

    Proved before it is trusted

    A node joins a network for Security and trust 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 Security and trust carries a signature, so anyone downstream can check where a value came from.

  6. Ushahidi

    Standards an auditor can check

    Metadata for Security and trust follows WIGOS and ISO 19115 practice, and observations are served through OGC SensorThings and exchanged through WIS 2.0. We keep every release, calibration and admission for Security and trust as a signed record that an auditor can verify independently, against the standard it names.

  7. Operations

    Every node watched, every incident closed

    The operations console shows every node of a network for Security and trust 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 Security and trust closes only when the operator records the cause and verifies the fix.

  8. Failure and recovery

    When a node fails, the fleet knows first

    When a node for Security and trust goes silent or a sensor drifts, the node buffers its data and fails over to a second link where the site has one. The alert carries the evidence a responder needs, and the record for Security and trust loses nothing and counts nothing twice.

  9. Taarifa mpya

    Updates in rings, with rollback

    Software and configuration reach a fleet for Security and trust 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 Security and trust returns to its last good release without a site visit.

  10. How it scales

    One base unit, repeated

    A network for Security and trust 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 Security and trust grows by adding units, never by replacing what works.

  11. What you get

    Open where it can be, contracted where it must be

    The protocol, the methods and the open data behind Security and trust are free to use and build on. Nexus Observatory Inc. delivers sites, fleets, managed operations and data tiers for Security and trust under contract, priced per site and per fleet, with service levels written as numbers you can check.

  12. Next step

    Security and trust, planned with you

    Tell us which technologies of Security and trust your sites must run and the standards your buyers hold you to. An engineer replies with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for Security and trust, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need.

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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.

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In depth

Use case Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weatherSector IndustrialISIC section · ISIC B Mining and quarryingISIC section · ISIC F Construction

Explainers

Explainer · Industrial IndustrialBlast vibration at the pit, fire weather at the grid edge, methane at the fenceline and tailings movement from GNSS.Jukwaa Security and trustEvery unattended node is an entry pointJukwaa Sensors & instrumentsA number without its story

Stories

Story · Private 5G and AI-RAN Private 5G with the inference in the radioA private cellular network gives a site its own coverage, its own security and its own priorities. AI-RAN adds a second idea: the accelerators that run the…Story · Post-quantum cryptography Cryptography that outlasts the quantum computerData signed today may need to be trusted in 2040. Post-quantum standards were first published in August 2024, and governments have set dates for leaving…Story · Timing and PNT Time as infrastructureA 5G cell must hold its phase within 3 µs of its neighbours, ±1.5 µs of a common reference; a synchrophasor’s one per cent vector error leaves room for only…

Places and networks

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 Open-pit mineGNSS slope monitors on the benches, a blast seismograph at the boundary and a private cell for the fleet, around a benched pit cut into the ground.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.

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.

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.

Security, identity and trust

How every node proves what it is and what it runs, how links and keys are protected, how software is traced to its source, how personal data is minimised, and how incidents are found and handled.

The full directory →

Device identity and attestation

Technologies · 8 · Frontier · 1

  • Trusted Platform Module
  • DICE layered identity
  • Secure device identifiers
  • Remote attestation architecture
  • Entity Attestation Tokens
  • Secure elements
  • Physically unclonable functions
  • Zero-touch secure onboarding

PKI, secure boot and updates

Technologies · 7

  • Certificate profiles
  • Automated certificate enrolment
  • Revocation and status checking
  • Secure and measured boot
  • Firmware update security
  • Software update frameworks
  • Signed orchestration plans

Zero trust and network security

Technologies · 7

  • Zero trust architecture
  • Workload identity
  • Port-based access and link encryption
  • Transport security
  • IPsec and site tunnels
  • Zones, conduits and segmentation
  • GNSS interference and spoofing resilience

5G and wireless security

Technologies · 6

  • 5G system security
  • Network product security assurance
  • Open RAN security
  • 5G security reference practice
  • LPWAN security
  • RF jamming and rogue emitter detection

OT security and software supply chain

Technologies · 9

  • Industrial security programmes
  • System and component security levels
  • Secure development lifecycle
  • OT security guidance and threat models
  • Software bills of materials
  • Build provenance and supply-chain levels
  • Vulnerability exploitability exchange
  • Hardware supply chain integrity
  • Product cybersecurity regulation

Privacy and data protection

Technologies · 7

  • Canadian privacy law
  • International privacy law
  • Privacy information management
  • Privacy by design
  • Privacy impact assessment
  • Camera and audio minimisation
  • De-identification

Keys, cryptography and post-quantum migration

Technologies · 9 · Frontier · 5

  • Key management lifecycle
  • Hardware security modules
  • Key management interfaces
  • Random number generation
  • ML-KEM key encapsulation
  • ML-DSA and SLH-DSA signatures
  • Stateful hash-based signatures
  • Hybrid key exchange
  • Crypto inventory and migration planning

Monitoring, incident response and governance

Technologies · 8

  • Incident response
  • Security monitoring and logging
  • Coordinated vulnerability disclosure
  • CSIRT services
  • Digital evidence handling
  • Information security management
  • Government security control profiles
  • Product security evaluation

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The technologies behind security and trust.

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