Field operations and lifecycle
Personnel competence schemes
Independent assessment of individual competence where clients or regulators require it.
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ISO/IEC 17024
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Partner enablementIntegrators and suppliers, on one practice.
Partner enablement, inside Training and enablement: personnel competence schemes, conformance testing, Enrolment on the Observatory Protocol grid. Every item is traced to its specification, from ISO/IEC 17024 to Observatory Protocol specification (open), and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.
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At a glance
Personnel competence schemes
Independent assessment of individual competence where clients or regulators require it. In partner enablement, part of Training and enablement, the operations, NOC, support and training layer holds personnel competence schemes, drawn against ISO/IEC 17024. We build it into every site for partner enablement against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
The problem
Integrators and suppliers, on one practice
Networks run for years; staff change. A system only the vendor understands is a system you rent forever, and one that degrades the day the vendor leaves. Training is how a network stays yours, and how its quality survives staff changes, contracts and years.
Key facts
- Specification
- ISO/IEC 17024
- Specification
- Observatory Protocol specification (open)
- Specification
- Observatory Protocol specification (open) · OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing (CITE) approach
- Standards
- ISO/IEC 17024 · Observatory Protocol specification · OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing approach
Components
- Small props, switch panel, nameplate and noticeboard
- Automatic weather station (AWS) to WMO siting practice
- Particulate monitoring station and sensor node
- Seismometer vault station (broadband, solar powered, GNSS-timed)
- LoRaWAN gateway, endpoint and soil probe
- Deployable field shelter with environmental control
- Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment
- Operations console with a video wall
Interfaces
- Radio
- Ethernet · LoRaWAN
In the story below
- The system, part by part
- Assembly
- Installation
- Deployment
- Connections
- Operation
- Failure and recovery
- Scale and federation
- What you get
Scenes · 13
Next steps
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Training and enablementStart a learning pathTraining and enablement · Partner enablement
Integrators and suppliers, on one practice
Networks run for years; staff change. A system only the vendor understands is a system you rent forever, and one that degrades the day the vendor leaves. Training is how a network stays yours, and how its quality survives staff changes, contracts and years.
What it does
Personnel competence schemes
Independent assessment of individual competence where clients or regulators require it. In partner enablement, part of Training and enablement, the operations, NOC, support and training layer holds personnel competence schemes, drawn against ISO/IEC 17024. We build it into every site for partner enablement against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- ISO/IEC 17024
Device management and onboarding
Enrolment on the Observatory Protocol grid
Moving a device through the protocol enrolment states to admitted for its scope. In partner enablement, part of Training and enablement, the device management and onboarding layer holds enrolment on the Observatory Protocol grid, drawn against Observatory Protocol specification. We build it into every site for partner enablement against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- Observatory Protocol specification (open)
Time and place
When and where, on every record
Every record made for partner enablement 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 partner enablement says so, and every user downstream sees the same warning.
Open protocol interfaces and federation
Conformance testing
Tools and test suites that check devices and software against the protocol. In partner enablement, part of Training and enablement, the open protocol interfaces and federation layer holds conformance testing, drawn against Observatory Protocol specification and OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing approach.
- Specification
- Observatory Protocol specification (open) · OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing (CITE) approach
Trust
Proved before it is trusted
A node joins a network for partner enablement 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 partner enablement carries a signature, so anyone downstream can check where a value came from.
Evidence
Traced to its specifications
We trace each part of partner enablement to its specification: ISO/IEC 17024, Observatory Protocol specification and OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing approach. We keep the versions, configurations and test results of partner enablement as signed records, so a buyer or an auditor can check what was delivered against what was specified.
- Standards
- ISO/IEC 17024 · Observatory Protocol specification · OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing approach
Operations
Every node watched, every incident closed
The operations console shows every node of a network for partner enablement 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 partner enablement closes only when the operator records the cause and verifies the fix.
Failure and recovery
When a node fails, the fleet knows first
When a node for partner enablement 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 partner enablement loses nothing and counts nothing twice.
Field service
One crew, from survey to repair
One crew surveys, installs, commissions, calibrates and repairs the sites for partner enablement, working from each site’s own record. Each visit updates that record, so the next crew knows what is on a site for partner enablement, when it was last checked and why it changed, and plans spares from that history.
Updates
Updates in rings, with rollback
Software and configuration reach a fleet for partner enablement 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 partner enablement returns to its last good release without a site visit.
What you get
Academy paths, on-site enablement
Academy paths, guides and the glossary are open. Operator and technician training and on-site enablement are contracted; pricing follows the people trained and the sites involved, and the material remains available to your team. Courses can run on your site, at ours or remotely for the theory, with the practical parts always on real equipment.
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Partner enablement, planned with you
Tell us the sites, the systems partner enablement 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 partner enablement, 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.
All presentationsIn depth
Use case Highway corridor coverage and safety sensingUse case State or provincial mesonet siteUse case Northern civil observatoryUse case Deployable incident observatoryExplainers
Explainer · Communities and rural Communities and ruralCommunity cellular coverage on real terrain, fixed-wireless Fresnel clearance, corridors, a remote microgrid sized from its load and interim public-safety broadband.Explainer · Scientific Scientific, explainedPlatform Training and enablementSystems outlive the people who installed themPlatform ConnectivityPublic networks were not built for this siteStories
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…Story · Overview What changes by 2030Six shifts will reshape how the Earth is observed before the decade ends: networks that sense, models that forecast, foundation models that read imagery,…Places and networks
Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Orbit viewGround tracks of a sun-synchronous imager and three shells of a broadband constellation, computed from their orbits over a rotating Earth.Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Arctic stationA self-powered station on the ice: a microgrid, a low-orbit satellite terminal, a weather station, a GNSS monument and an edge node that holds data through the polar night.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 · RAN · 5G NR Radio access in a city centreA three-sector macro site on the tallest roof and small cells on street poles: their coverage, interference and beams computed over the streets and buildings of the drawing.Network scene · AI-RAN · Near-RT RIC AI-RAN at a stadiumRadios on the stadium roof run their baseband on a GPU server at the edge, which also runs the AI that watches the crowd and steers the beams through an xApp loop.Heritage observatories
Heritage observatory · Geostationary orbit over the Americas · 1975 GOESSince 1975 a succession of NOAA satellites has hovered 35,786 kilometres above the equator, watching the same hemisphere without a break.Heritage observatory · United States · 1904 Mount Wilson ObservatoryWithin fifteen years of its founding in 1904 Mount Wilson held the world’s largest telescope, and within twenty-five it had shown that the Milky Way is one galaxy among many and…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.01What it is
Operations, NOC, support and training.
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. The radios, networks, gateways, device management and field protocols that connect low-power sensors and controllers to the grid, sized to a measured power budget. Each technology below carries what it is, what we do with it, and the standard it is drawn against.
Data, software and interoperability
Conformance testing
Tools and test suites that check devices and software against the protocol.
We design, integrate and operate.
Observatory Protocol specification (open) · OGC Compliance Interoperability and Testing (CITE) approach
IoT, LPWAN and mesh
Enrolment on the Observatory Protocol grid
Moving a device through the protocol enrolment states to admitted for its scope.
We design, integrate, deploy and operate.
Observatory Protocol specification (open)
02Architecture
Where it sits, and what it speaks.
Partner enablement draws on the spectrum below; the highlighted layers carry this area, and the protocol functions it speaks are marked.
Survey and site acquisition
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Permitting and approvals
7
Design packs and logistics
8
Installation, commissioning and acceptance
9
Operations, NOC, support and training
8
Maintenance, spares, refurbishment and upgrades
10
Decommission and recycling
7
Health, safety and evidence records
9
Meteorology (WMO No. 8 classes)
10
Air quality and atmospheric composition
7
Hydrology and water
7
Ocean and coastal
7
Seismic, geodetic, geomagnetic and radiation
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RF, acoustics, cameras and radar
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Calibration, metadata and quality control
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Frontier and research
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01Join Identity, attestation quote, signed policy.
02Admit Admitted for a stated scope, nothing wider.
03Describe 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 partner enablement.
Communities and ruralLast-mile fixed wireless with community anchor sensing
Sub-grantee partnerships where observatory nodes co-host at schools, clinics and fire halls.Development and humanitarianSchool connectivity with a school observatory
Satellite or fixed wireless, school Wi-Fi, an open connectivity probe and an optional station.ScientificCitizen seismology and school seismographs
Compact seismographs feeding open data networks.EducationSchool weather, air and seismic station programmes
Hosted sensors and seismographs with classroom datasets.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
- Academy paths
- Guides and glossary
Enterprise, on this site
- Operator and technician training
- On-site enablement
06The rest of the line
Training and enablement, area by area.
Training and enablementOperators
Run the grid, read the evidence.Training and enablementField crews
Install, commission and maintain, on site.Training and enablementEngineers
Design, integration and the protocol in depth.Training and enablementLearning paths
From first principles to a commissioned site.Bring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for partner enablement. The form names who receives your details.
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