Many operators.
One connected ecosystem.
Water and energy operators share changing service, asset, and operational data with retailers, councils, emergency services, and researchers. Commons keeps every recipient current without requiring everyone to use the same operational system. Intermediaries can build on the same data and publish services of their own.
Every exchange
brings more work.
The more organizations depend on an operator’s data, the more exports it sends, and the more often each one has to be redone.
Different formats, schedules, and deliveries for each organization that relies on the data.
Each one works out what changed in the latest file, often after the fact.
Crews on site still need asset and outage data when the connection drops.
Every participant.
A reason to use Commons.
Whoever provides, uses, or adds value to utility data, Commons gives them the same connected source to work from.
Share outages, asset, and operational data from the systems you already run, and keep every copy current.
Subscribe to the operators you depend on. Read a local copy even offline, and receive published changes when connected.
Combine several operators’ data, add forecasts or analysis, and publish the result or a service others can subscribe to.
Publish from each
operator’s environment.
Each operator publishes selected data through its own Store, straight from the systems it already runs. Every recipient keeps a local copy and receives each later change.
No shared platform, no new export per partner. Adding an organization means granting access, not building another feed.
Still readable on site.
Synced when you reconnect.
Field teams keep reading the data they already have when the signal drops, and sync when they reconnect.
An older record isn’t safe for every task. Agree which actions need the latest version, and let the application decide.
No signal on site
Combine several operators.
Publish the result.
A regional program can subscribe to several operators, apply its own checks, and publish a combined dataset as a new Store.
Councils and emergency services subscribe once to the combined view, instead of stitching together every operator’s files.
Share what’s agreed.
Keep control of the rest.
Each operator decides who can read its Store, who can host a replica, and who administers it. Asset definitions, permissions, and operational decisions stay with the operator.
Sensitive data such as meter readings is shared only as an agreed subset. Commons does not replace operational control systems.
Many operators.
No shared platform.
Each operator publishes from its own environment; everyone who depends on the data stays connected to it.