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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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Use case Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weatherUse case Northern civil observatoryUse case Low-cost stream gauge networkUse case Research-infrastructure gap node

Explainers

Explainer · Scientific Scientific, explainedExplainer · Industrial IndustrialBlast vibration at the pit, fire weather at the grid edge, methane at the fenceline and tailings movement from GNSS.Inkundla Test and qualificationClaims are easy; evidence is rareInkundla ConnectivityPublic networks were not built for this site

Stories

Story · Orbit Orbits as infrastructureLow orbits are fast and crowded, high orbits slow and spacious. Every choice of altitude is a trade between delay, footprint and how long the satellite…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,…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…

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 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 · 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 · 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 · Low Earth orbit · 2014 Copernicus Sentinel-1A pair of radar satellites at a time, imaging the Earth day and night through cloud, with data free to anyone.Heritage observatory · Earth orbit · 1972 Landsat programmeSince 1972 the same kind of satellite has photographed the same patches of land, building the longest continuous record of the Earth’s surface from space.

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.

01Qala lapha

See it before you plan it.

Ukubuka konke

Test and qualification

Tested against the specification. State on record. Back to the overview →
Plan a site

Field Deployment Studio

Plan coverage, power and timing on real terrain. Open the Studio →

02Stories

Where this platform is at work.

Field stories from the network, each with the systems in it and the sources behind it.

Private 5G and AI-RAN

Private 5G with the inference in the radio

A 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… Read the story →
Timing and PNT

Time as infrastructure

A 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… Read the story →
Data provenance chain

From sensor to record

A published observation should carry its own history: which instrument made it, when, under which calibration, and every step since. The web already has a… Read the story →

03Imibhalo

The open specification and its tools.

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Specification

Functions, state machines, objects and flows. Read →
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Abathuthukisi

Software kits, agents and worked examples. Read →
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Ukuhambisana

Run the suite, publish the result. Read →
Ivulekile

Open source

What is open, and on what terms. Read →

04Reach the right team

Every request has its own form.

Each form routes to the team that answers it and names who receives your details.

Form

Plan a deployment

Tell us the site, the sector and the timeline. An engineer replies. Open the form →
Form

Get support

Something does not work, or you need a hand with a system you run. Open the form →
Form

Write to us

Not sure who should read it? Choose a department and we route it. Open the form →

05Kule sayithi

Where to go next.

Test and qualification

Izindawo

Every area, with its systems and standards. Open →
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Technologies

The layered map of what we build with. Open →
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Architecture

Layers, functions and evidence. Open →
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Industries

The industry sites built on this platform. Open →

Bring us the site.

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

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Resources for test and qualification.

Bring us the site.

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