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Real Spimes

::: nBlog ::: After spending a couple of busy days in an Internet-of-Things conference, presenting and participating in panels, I couldn’t help thinking of redefining BaseN marketing slogans – “BaseN. Real Customers. Real Revenue. Operational global platform”. Or simply “We’re Real”. But maybe we just upgrade “Millions of..” to “Billions of..” There were many references […]

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BaseN CEO presents Spime at Living Bits and Things 2014

::: events ::: The emergence of the Internet of Things brings a lot of potential to existing businesses of all sorts. Pasi Hurri, President and CEO of BaseN, will present BaseN’s Spime service on the second day of Living Bits and Things, taking place June 2 – 6, 2014 in Bled, Slovenia. Spime means looking beyond the […]

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Smart Energy and Digital Health – Meet BaseN at TMF Live!

::: events ::: BaseN is part of two Internet-of-Things-centric catalyst projects that will be showcased at TMF Live! in Nice, France from June 2 – 5, 2014. The Smart Energy catalyst focuses on end-to-end flows across energy and utilities management scenarios. The catalyst is lead by BaseN and further includes BC Hydro, BT, Cisco Systems, Hydro-Quebec, Salzburg AG, ESRI, Infonova […]

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Hairspime

::: nBlog ::: The Internet of Things is often confined to lifeless physicality, which greatly reduces its conceivable applications. Things, anyway, rarely used to have true intelligence outside horror movies.  Spimes will remedy this by bringing the logical brain to any thing physical. However, since we’re quite used to the nature of our current thingverse […]

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Sustainable Retrofitting – a SURE! thing with BaseN

::: news ::: BaseN joins the new Nordic project SURE!, dedicated to developing a sustainable retrofitting concept for multi-storey buildings. The joint and cross-disciplinary project involves partners from Denmark, Finland and Sweden, and will run for three years. BaseN provides the microagent infrastructure for hardware integration, data collection and potential control, as well as a […]

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BaseN CEO joins panel discussion at Local Renewable Energy Association seminar

::: events ::: The Local Renewable Energy Association (Suomen Lähienergialiitto) arranges a seminar in Helsinki on May 15th to discuss work and growth opportunities in the domestic energy sector. Pasi Hurri, President and CEO of BaseN, will be part of a panel discussion about the importance of renewable energy and smart energy systems and their role […]

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Don’t Fire-and-Forget Your Products

::: nBlog ::: Most businesses today operate in a fire-and-forget mode. As soon as the product is sold, it becomes a mere liability for the duration of its warranty. While lot of resources is used to enhance production, sourcing and distribution processes, customer and consumer behavior and the product’s afterlife get surprisingly little attention. Yes there are the […]

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Barbed Spime

::: nBlog ::: While walking with our chief architect in Zurich a few weeks back, we spotted a local garrison with a lot of barbed wire, cameras and watchtowers around it. The Swiss accuracy was impressive even there – so punctually and symmetrically were the wire circles installed on top of clean concrete walls.  As […]

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Some-Effort Telecoms

::: nBlog ::: As I live 51.2 kilometers west from our office in Helsinki, I usually spend the 42 minute commute on the phone (my handsfree set is integrated to 5.1 audio, quality is fairly good). In addition, my car has its own 3G subscription, attached to the car’s OBD2/CAN bus, connecting it to our Platform. When […]

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Sulzer honors 12 years use of BaseN Platform

::: news ::: This year BaseN celebrates one of its longest customers, Sulzer Pumps Finland. Sulzer is an international industrial engineering and manufacturing company with a special focus on the gas, power and water markets. Twelve years ago, Sulzer Pumps Finland turned to BaseN in order to find a scalable and reliable monitoring service for their […]