Author: BaseN

During the last couple of years, BaseN Platform has been used to monitor and control an increasing amount of nodes, or devices, outside the traditional telecom and IT realm. As a consequence, we’ve vastly developed our capabilities of securely hosting complex algorithms which analyze – and, perhaps even more importantly, control things ranging from solar inverters […]

::: nBlog ::: I recently switched our electricity provider and got a new contract that supports hourly pricing, which means that every hour has a different price tag per kilowatt-hour.  Here in the Nordics the electricity market has been somewhat open for the last 15 years, and there’s a marketplace called Nordpool where buyers and sellers of […]

::: nBlog ::: Most modern software applications, internal or external to organizations, tend to become highly complex over time, when it comes to physical and logical servers, databases, front ends and other components. In order to troubleshoot these, many companies offer shrink-wrap products that promise to find ’Root Cause’ for any current or even new performance and […]

::: nBlog ::: A couple of weeks back in CIRED I participated in a roundtable discussion concerning smart energy usage at home. Although the whole event was primarily geared towards high voltage utility people among large ABB, Siemens and Vattenfall booths, these roundtables inspired many visionary but surprisingly practical ideas. One of them was the cloud-based washing machine, which […]

::: nBlog ::: People in intelligence branches tend to say that the value of reconnaissance data decreases exponentially by its age. Although historical analysis is important, having real time data available is critical for evolutionally better decision making. Human brain’s short term memory just drives our primary cognitive functions.  We’re experiencing the same inflation when our utilities […]