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Use cases

• Street flood observatory Ultrasonic depth sensors on poles report street-level water depth as open data and alerts.
• Hybrid air-quality observatory A few reference analysers and many low-cost nodes, with co-location calibration and an open-data feed.
• Community cellular and sensing Small cells with an open core, satellite backhaul and solar power, plus a sensing overlay, for a community that owns its network.
• GBON gap-filler station A WMO-grade surface station, optional upper-air ground station and a WIS 2.0 node, built to report reliably where the global basic observing network has gaps.
• Wildfire camera and fire-weather node Pan-tilt and thermal cameras with edge inference on a ridgeline tower, co-located with a fire-weather station.
• Agromet cooperative network Compact weather stations and soil probes on farms, feeding irrigation, frost and disease models for a cooperative or an insurer.
• Remote microgrid observatory Solar, storage and power-quality telemetry with a weather station and a small cell, for a community that is reducing diesel.
• Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weather Private LTE on substations and poles for distribution automation, with weather nodes that inform public-safety power shutoff decisions.
• Mine site private 5G and environmental monitoring A standalone 5G core, radios across the pit and edge compute for autonomy, with dust, vibration, slope and weather sensing for environmental records.
• Methane fenceline observatory Point sensors on the fenceline with optical gas imaging and quantification, feeding leak-detection reports.
• School connectivity observatory A connected school as an observatory node: backhaul, Wi-Fi, a connectivity probe and an optional weather and air-quality station.
• Citizen seismology node A compact seismograph on a network connection, registered in an open seismic data network.
• Wave buoy coastal array Low-cost moored wave buoys with satellite telemetry, deployed as an array along a coast or port approach.
• Bioacoustic biodiversity observatory Open-hardware acoustic recorders on solar power with low-power radio or satellite uplink, for species baselines.
• Low-cost stream gauge network Radar or pressure level sensors with low-power radio and solar power, as a cheaper tier beside a national gauge network.
• Displacement-site connectivity and sensing Point-to-multipoint wireless with satellite backhaul, solar power and community Wi-Fi, plus water and flood sensing with explicit protection safeguards.
• Deployable incident observatory A trailer or vehicle with a cell on wheels, satellite backhaul, a mesh kit, a drone and weather and air-quality nodes for an incident base.
• Research-infrastructure gap node A standardised observation package with a FAIR data pipeline, built to extend a research infrastructure's coverage.
• State or provincial mesonet site A full weather station on a solar-powered tower with soil sensors, one of a dense network run by a university.
• Avalanche detection site Doppler radar, infrasound and geophones with a snow and wind station, feeding a road or resort control room.
• Bankable solar and wind resource station A met mast or lidar with secondary-standard pyranometers and a traceable calibration chain, for a measurement campaign lenders accept.
• Road weather corridor node Pavement and visibility sensors with cameras and a traffic counter on a roadside pole, feeding maintenance decisions.
• Stadium operations private 5G slice A private 5G slice for venue operations beside the neutral-host network, with crowd, heat and air sensing.
• Highway corridor coverage and safety sensing Small cells with satellite backhaul along an unserved highway, with road-weather and camera nodes.
• Northern civil observatory Weather, geodetic and space-weather instruments with communications and power at a remote northern site, built for civil use that infrastructure programmes may share.