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Singularity, Granularity and Spime

::: events ::: BaseN President & CEO Pasi Hurri takes the spime approach to a “Mastermind Class About the Future” taking place on April 25 at Singularity University on the NASA campus, run by the master of Singularity, Mr. Ray Kurzweil. Singularity University is known for preparing global leaders and organizations for the future, exploring the opportunities and implications of […]

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An Intern is never just an Intern

::: nBlog ::: During my 30 years of managing people, I’ve conducted and participated in hundreds of job interviews, ranging from hiring interns all the way to getting a skilled technical VP. I believe these hiring decisions have been the toughest, but at the same time the most important during my working life. Some of […]

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Lessons from 157 Years of Business Evolution, Sustainability, and Resilience

My first private sector job was at A. Ahlstrom, a Finnish, but early globalized conglomerate originally established in 1865; also a BaseN customer since 2002. At the time of my first summer job in 1986, They made all kinds of paper, packaging and wooden materials, in addition to industrial pumps and power plant/factory boilers. The […]

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BaseN is the IoT platform of choice for the smart grid

::: news ::: Smart grids are one of the foundations for smart cities, forming a network of interconnected things in need of constant and real time monitoring, management and control. BaseN Platform makes any such complex network easily understandable as a whole, encompassing its entire structure as well as the status and health of each of its individual components, in […]

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BaseN CEO co-chairing IEEE CQR International Workshop

::: events ::: The IEEE CQR International Workshop is held annually with the purpose of bringing together industry and academic experts to present and discuss communications quality, reliability and security issues. This year’s IEEE CQR will be held in Naples, Florida, and will span over 3 days, April 16 to April 18. The focus of the 2019 Emerging Technology […]

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Innovation Beyond Scale: Why More Data, Even the Unusual, Matters

For most of its customers, BaseN is the platform of choice for collecting vast amounts of crucial data, ranging from production processes to full predictive maintenance, e.g. how the products perform at the end customers. More advanced customers run entirly new digital product lines on top of BaseN Platform. The trend is clearly towards increasing […]

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Service or no Service (But don’t make a mess in the middle)

::: nBlog ::: We’ve now lived in the countryside for more than 10 years, which has been perfect what comes to my personality trait of abhorring too much dependence on different service providers like utilities, housing companies, electricians, plumbers and such. Learning and doing almost everything by oneself what comes to living might sound burdensome, […]

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Whose Cloud?

In IoT marketing, many providers boast that they provision their services from their own cloud. Some are also using wording like full stack, similarly to BaseN. Everything is nice and virtual! And almost free! Well. What does it mean to have your own cloud? The reality is that most of these claimants actually buy virtual servers from […]

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BaseN CEO speaking at the annual meeting of the IEEE Finland Section

::: events ::: The board of IEEE Finland Section will have its annual meeting on Tuesday January 29th in Helsinki and invited BaseN President and CEO to present how spimes will shape the future. Mr. Pasi Hurri is an IEEE Senior Member and holds the Vice Chair position of the IEEE Finland Joint Chapter of Control System […]

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Bimetal Tyranny

::: nBlog ::: After eventful flights, including an unannounced stopover to Milwaukee, I finally reached Denver, Colorado. Just to continue the day’s theme, my hotel was overbooked and they bumped me into the neighboring, brand new Hyatt. All good around 1am. Having been awake for 32 hours, I was expecting a good night’s sleep before […]