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Identity and attestation
Hardware-rooted identity, with a quote checked at every join.
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Training and enablement/
ArchitectureHow training and enablement is built.
One reference architecture under every deployment: the layers of a site, the protocol functions this platform relies on, and the evidence that travels with every observation.
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At a glance
Health, safety and evidence records
In Training and enablement, the health, safety and evidence records layer holds occupational health and safety management, tower and structure work and electrical safety, each drawn against the standard it follows. Hazard identification, risk control and worker participation across all field work.
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Your team runs it. We make sure they can
This page shows how Training and enablement is put together, layer by layer, from the instrument to the record. Operator, crew and engineer training on the systems you own, commissioning taught on your own site, enablement for integrators and suppliers, and learning paths from first principles to a commissioned site, each step recorded.
Components
- Pole-mounted edge gateway node
- 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
- Amathuluzi
- 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
Where it works
- Design packs and logistics
- Permitting and approvals
- Decommission and recycling
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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Next steps
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Training and enablementTraining and enablement · Architecture
Your team runs it. We make sure they can
This page shows how Training and enablement is put together, layer by layer, from the instrument to the record. Operator, crew and engineer training on the systems you own, commissioning taught on your own site, enablement for integrators and suppliers, and learning paths from first principles to a commissioned site, each step recorded.
Architecture · Field operations and lifecycle
Health, safety and evidence records
In Training and enablement, the health, safety and evidence records layer holds occupational health and safety management, tower and structure work and electrical safety, each drawn against the standard it follows. Hazard identification, risk control and worker participation across all field work.
Architecture · Field operations and lifecycle
Design packs and logistics
In Training and enablement, the design packs and logistics layer holds design packs, information management across the asset life and configuration management, each drawn against the standard it follows. Drawings, single-line diagrams, layouts, BOMs and method statements issued for construction.
Architecture · Field operations and lifecycle
Survey and site acquisition
In Training and enablement, the survey and site acquisition layer holds desktop study and siting screen, RF survey and spectrum scan and site walk and engineering survey, each drawn against the standard it follows. Ranking candidate sites from terrain, hazards, access, power, land use and coverage before anyone travels.
Architecture · Field operations and lifecycle
Permitting and approvals
In Training and enablement, the permitting and approvals layer holds antenna siting consultation, RF exposure assessment and radio licences and equipment authorisation, each drawn against the standard it follows. Land-use authority and public consultation for new antenna systems. Showing that public and worker exposure near transmitters stays within limits.
Architecture · Field operations and lifecycle
Maintenance, spares, refurbishment and upgrades
In Training and enablement, the maintenance, spares, refurbishment and upgrades layer holds preventive maintenance, condition monitoring and predictive maintenance with machine learning, each drawn against the standard it follows. Scheduled inspection, cleaning and replacement by asset class and environment. Using health data from nodes and power systems to plan interventions.
Architecture · In situ sensors and instruments
Meteorology
In Training and enablement, the meteorology layer holds air temperature and humidity, atmospheric pressure and surface wind, each drawn against the standard it follows. Ventilated, shielded thermometers and hygrometers sited and exposed to WMO practice. Barometers for weather, altimetry correction and storm surge analysis.
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Proved before it is trusted
A network for Training and enablement admits a node only once its hardware root of trust has answered an attestation challenge, whoever supplied it. Signed software, keys kept in secure hardware and a signature on every record let anyone check where a value for Training and enablement came from.
Architecture · Field operations and lifecycle
Operations, NOC, support and training
In Training and enablement, the operations, NOC, support and training layer holds service management, network operations centre and managed site operations, each drawn against the standard it follows. Defined processes for incidents, problems, changes and service levels. Round-the-clock monitoring, alarms, triage and dispatch for every node.
Architecture · Field operations and lifecycle
Decommission and recycling
In Training and enablement, the decommission and recycling layer holds decommission planning, electronic waste and battery end of life, each drawn against the standard it follows. Removing equipment, restoring the site and closing licences and leases. Collection and treatment of electrical and electronic equipment through approved channels.
Architecture · Field operations and lifecycle
Installation, commissioning and acceptance
In Training and enablement, the installation, commissioning and acceptance layer holds civil works and foundations, structured cabling and fibre and bonding and grounding installation, each drawn against the standard it follows. Footings, anchors, cable routes and enclosures built to the design pack.
What you get
Open where it can be, contracted where it must be
What is open for Training and enablement is free: the protocol, the methods and the open data can be used and built on by anyone. What must be contracted for Training and enablement, sites, fleets, managed operations and data tiers, Nexus Observatory Inc. delivers at a price per site and per fleet, with service levels in numbers.
Next step
Training and enablement, planned with you
Tell us which layers of Training and enablement you already run and which you want us to design and deliver. An engineer replies with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for Training and enablement, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need.
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Training and enablement
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
ISIC section · ISIC J Information and communicationUse case Highway corridor coverage and safety sensingUse case Citizen seismology nodeUse case Northern civil observatoryExplainers
Explainer · Scientific Scientific, explainedExplainer · 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.Inkundla Training and enablementSystems outlive the people who installed themInkundla Sensors & instrumentsA number without its storyStories
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 · 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…Places and networks
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.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.Network scene · IoT · Mesh Industrial IoT in a process plantWireless instruments on the pipe racks and process units form a mesh to the control building, tank gauges report over LoRaWAN, and a microwave hop links the control building to…Network scene · Backhaul · Fresnel zone Microwave backhaul across a river valleyAn 18 GHz hop from the church tower to a mast on the far side of the flood plain: its first Fresnel zone, clearance over the town and trees, and what a new building in the path…Heritage observatories
Heritage observatory · China · 2016 Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical TelescopeA dish 500 metres wide built in a natural limestone bowl in the mountains of Guizhou, whose surface reshapes itself in real time to follow the sky.Heritage observatory · Chile · 2011 Atacama Large MillimeterSixty-six antennas on a 5,000-metre desert plateau in Chile, linked by a supercomputer into one telescope that sees cold gas and dust at millimetre wavelengths.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.01Reference architecture
From one instrument to the grid.
Every deployment is drawn on the same six layers. A typed contract sits at every boundary, so parts from different makers fit together.
- 01InstrumentThe sensor or radio that makes the measurement, with its calibration.
- 02NodeThe device that hosts instruments: identity, time, power and storage.
- 03SiteNodes in one place, on one mast or in one shelter, with their links.
- 04CellSites that share a backhaul, a power plan and an operator.
- 05ClusterCells run as one service, with one fleet plan and one evidence trail.
- 06GridClusters that federate across owners through the open protocol.
The protocol functions this platform relies on most.
02Trust and evidence
Every observation carries its proof.
What a buyer, a regulator or a partner grid can check, on every site we build.
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Segmentation
Least privilege between nodes, tenants and sites.
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Time integrity
Every clock monitored, every holdover logged.
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Evidence bundles
What was done, by whom, with what result.
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Qualification state
Each device and release, with the tests behind it.
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Signed plans
Software and configuration change only by a signed plan.
03Read further
The open specification behind it.
Observatory ProtocolSpecification
Functions, state machines, objects and flows. Read →Observatory ProtocolReference designs
Nodes and sites drawn to the protocol. Read →Observatory ProtocolUkuhambisana
Run the suite against an implementation. Read →04Kule sayithi
Where to go next.
Training and enablementIzindawo
Every area, with its systems and standards. Open →Training and enablementTechnologies
The layered map of what we build with. Open →Training and enablementIndustries
The industry sites built on this platform. Open →Training and enablementIzinsiza
Explainer, stories, specification and forms. 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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