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Sovereign Infrastructure & Core Areas of Practice

Onake Systems designs, integrates, and assesses the IT and OT environments powering critical infrastructure.

We produce the funding-ready studies, technical specifications, and options analyses communities need before committing major capital, built to meet rigorous federal and provincial grant frameworks. Where a project calls for it, we carry the work further: integrating systems that were never designed to work together, developing custom software where no product fits, and delivering a solution that runs. From first site visit to working system, your team retains one continuous, senior-led partner.

Core Principle

One principle governs every study we deliver: communities must retain absolute control over their infrastructure, operations, and data. Whether assessing LEO satellite links, cloud-versus-edge data architecture, or deploying on-premises AI across industrial control systems, advanced technology should never compromise local autonomy. Every report we author is built to protect community sovereignty.

Four Areas of Practice

Our engagements are scoped to the work in front of us: an assessment, a design, an integration, or a programme carried through to a working system. Documentation is built to the evidentiary standards required by federal and provincial capital funding frameworks.

Connectivity & Telecommunications

Broadband readiness assessments, VHF/UHF radio propagation modeling, terrestrial fibre and repeater site feasibility, and primary and redundant satellite transport architectures.

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Remote Power & Energy Resilience

Off-grid power design, solar-plus-storage (ESS) microgrid hybrid systems, and backup power feasibility for remote assets unserved by the central grid.

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Data Sovereignty & Information Systems

Indigenous data governance (OCAP® compliance), localized data handling architectures, enterprise systems modernization, and custom integration and software development.

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Operational Technology & Smart Automation

Real-time location systems (RTLS), environmental and industrial monitoring, and on-premises AI layers designed to enhance supervisory control within strict functional-safety boundaries.

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Core Deliverables

  • Empirical baseline: existing infrastructure and real-world performance mapped against operational needs.
  • Comparative options analysis: an objective, side-by-side technical trade-off matrix.
  • Life-cycle TCO modeling: capital expenditures (CapEx) and long-term operational costs (OpEx).
  • Actionable deployment roadmap: a phased execution plan.
  • Funding-ready documentation: technical artifacts built to withstand rigorous grant evaluation.

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Toolkits: the do-it-yourself path

Some teams would rather run a study themselves. Our toolkits put the same methods and templates in your hands: the self-serve version of work we also deliver directly.

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Supporting services

We also help First Nations organizations administer grants and contribution agreements, covering applications, reporting and compliance.