Author: BaseN

::: nBlog ::: Many formal and not so formal organizations, such as the IEEE, IETF and TM Forum have recently come up with proposals for creating standards for the Internet of Things. In addition, companies like IBM, GE and Oracle have invested serious marketing money to their own visions which also include business model designs. In […]

::: nBlog ::: Now that we’re in progress of implementing BaseN Platform to a multitude of major industrial customers for Spimes and the Industrial Internet/IoT, a few of our key messages have been confirmed time and again. Now almost as teenager, we have also learned a lot. We’ve always emphasized our beloved Platform’s technical scalability, fault tolerance and […]

::: nBlog ::: Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, in his Lost Victories, the landmark analysis of the Eastern front, writes extensively about the dangers of silo effects – different branches’ inability to work together in a concerted (joint) way. In theory, von Manstein had the capabilities to subdue the Red Army in months, but instead his technologically superior […]

::: nBlog ::: Services like marinetraffic.com and flightradar24.com have recently become quite popular, due to widespread media references during air disasters and e.g. the recent submarine hunting operation in Sweden. Marinetraffic.com collects and maps standard marine AIS messages on VHF frequencies 161.975 and 162.025 MHz; flightradar24 listens to the ADS-B air radar signal on 1.090 GHz and […]

::: nBlog ::: I’ve been servicing our 2003 Saab 9-5 Aero myself for the past few years, mostly out of technical interest but recently also since Saab no longer exists as an automobile manufacturer, sadly enough. The 2.3 liter, flexible fuel turbocharged engine is managed by an onboard computer called Trionic 7, which adjusts fuel injection, air flow, […]

::: nBlog ::: Governments here in Finland and elsewhere are often struggling with new e-services offered to citizens. From social security projects like Obamacare to electronic voting, we’ve seen millions of euros spent to systems ultimately rejected by end users due to performance and complexity issues. My fancy national identity card does include an X.509 certificate, but I’m […]