Aviary.

Service Area 1

Network status

All corridors operating except as noted below. Two active advisories. Last corridor survey: W31.

Service Area 1 corridor schematicSchematic diagram of eight rooftop loft nodes connected by flight corridors. Corridor COR-W2 carries a wind advisory at midspan; COR-S2 is rerouted around the Signal Hill approach. The corridor table below this map carries the same data in text form.SERVICE AREA 1 — CORRIDOR SCHEMATICNOT TO SCALE · SURVEYED W31 · ALTITUDE BAND A2 (60–120 M AGL)NWX-118 · CROSSWINDRAP-061 · RAPTOR ACTIVITYCOR-N1 · 26/HRCOR-N2 · 18/HRCOR-E1 · 22/HRCOR-W2 · 20/HRCOR-S2 · 14/HRL-01 GRANARYL-02 IRONWORKSL-03 VIADUCTL-04 GASWORKSL-05 COLD STORAGEL-06 CANNERYL-07 TANNERYL-08 SIGNAL HILL
corridor (weight = rated capacity)asset in transit (interpolated from loft-side reads)wind advisoryreroute in effect2.5 km intake radius
Rooftop loft node L-03 VIADUCT: a hardened equipment enclosure with weather mast and safety-orange access door on an urban rooftop
L-03 VIADUCT · ROOFTOP LOFT NODE · CORRIDOR SURVEY W31. Intake scanners, climate plant, and the loft-side read array are housed within the enclosure.

Corridors

90-day window
CorridorSpanRated capacityWind ceilingStatusUptime
COR-N1L-01 GRANARY — L-03 VIADUCT26 assets/hr42 km/hNOMINAL99.6%
COR-N2L-03 VIADUCT — L-07 TANNERY18 assets/hr40 km/hNOMINAL99.4%
COR-E1L-07 TANNERY — L-05 COLD STORAGE22 assets/hr45 km/hNOMINAL99.1%
COR-W2L-04 GASWORKS — L-08 SIGNAL HILL20 assets/hr38 km/hADVISORY97.8%
COR-S2L-08 SIGNAL HILL — L-06 CANNERY14 assets/hr38 km/hREROUTED98.7%

Uptime is weather-adjusted per SLA v4.2. Intervals under an active advisory are not counted as scheduled availability.

Active advisories

WX-118 · issued 14:07ZCOR-W2 crosswind.

Crosswind 38 km/h gusting 55 at midspan, exceeding the corridor's published 38 km/h ceiling. Capacity reduced to 40%. Priority-class dispatches continue under senior-asset assignment. Review 16:00 local.

RAP-061 · issued W29 · standingSignal Hill approach — persistent raptor activity.

Following three contact events in four weeks on the L-08 approach, COR-S2 is rerouted via the southern reservoir alignment (+6 min published transit). All contact events were resolved per SOP-9 with no payload loss. A falconry abatement contractor is engaged through W40. This advisory is reviewed at the weekly safety board and will remain standing until two consecutive contact-free weeks are observed.

Scheduled maintenance

WindowSiteWorkImpact
SUN 03:00–05:00L-04 GASWORKSPerch array washdown; intake scanner firmwareNo dispatches; queued payloads reroute via COR-N2
W38–W44NETWORKScheduled moltCapacity −60% network-wide; SLA suspended per §7.3

Navigation stack

Assets navigate by magnetoreception (trigeminally mediated; Mora et al., Nature 432), solar azimuth, and learned landmark chains built during corridor certification. There is no positioning hardware aboard: nothing we could attach within the payload ceiling would improve on the asset's own solution.

The transport layer itself has operated commercially since at least 1850, when the Reuter agency bridged the Aachen–Brussels telegraph gap with forty-five assets, beating the train by six hours. Aviary's contribution is the corridor model, the loft network, and the telemetry — the availability engineering the layer always deserved.

References: Mora et al., Nature 432 (2004)· Shawyer et al., Bird Study 55:1 (2008)· Britannica: Paul Julius, Baron von Reuter· Bergen LUG, RFC 1149 implementation (2001)