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BaseN brings Big Data expertise to the Gulf Region as part of a Business Delegation

::: events ::: BaseN President and CEO Pasi Hurri and Chief Engineer Kaj Niemi join a Business Delegation within an official visit of Mr. Jyrki Katainen, Prime Minister of Finland and Mr. Alexander Stubb, Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade of Finland to Doha, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The visit takes place between March […]

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Measurable Empathy

::: nBlog ::: When BaseN hires people to any position, half of the interview is always dedicated to an ad-hoc role play where the applicant is presented a scenario with components from past BaseN endeavors. All interviews include two BaseN people, or more depending on the scenario.  Compared to traditional interviews we used to conduct a […]

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Fortum’s Smart Grid Success with BaseN Real Time Monitoring

::: news ::: Residents have now been living for half a year in Adjutantti, a forerunner low-energy A-class residential building near Helsinki, that was built as a joint project by Fortum, Skanska and ABB using BaseN’s real time consumption monitoring to increase energy awareness and encourage energy saving throughout the building down to the single […]

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War Room Grade Insight: Built-in

::: news ::: A major global forest industry corporation and long-term BaseN customer made use of the fully customizable BaseN portals to overcome the challenge of providing an easy to understand ICT network status overview to it’s management. The company’s entire ICT performance is displayed in real time in just one screen, offering war room insight […]

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Tale of Two Delays

::: nBlog ::: The human mind is very adaptable to the environment and sensory information flow, in order to be able to maximize the processing capacity at any given moment. This has been useful in fight-flight situations during most of human evolutional history.  However, this seizing the moment has its downsides. Longer term wisdom and knowledge are easily sacrificed […]

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Big Data Cloud Pioneers (10 + 11)

::: nBlog ::: When NASA launched Pioneer 10 and 11 outer space probes in 1972 and 1973 respectively, local computing and storage were extremely expensive compared to today’s resources. That’s why it was logical to make them both fully Cloud-controlled, using NASA’s Deep Space Network. Their software versions were updated countless times before 2003, when Pioneer […]

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Separate Peace?

::: nBlog ::: During and just after this Christmas we’ve witnessed multiple Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks primarily towards national media portals, lastly towards the Finnish Broadcasting Company, interrupting most radio/tv network streams and news delivery for a couple of hours. Many of our customers have used the BaseN Platform successfully in maintaining situational awareness and been thus […]

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Cadillac Connectivity

::: nBlog ::: Upon arriving here in Orlando for the TMForum Management World, the car rental company was nice enough to give me a 2013 Cadillac ATS with a bargain price.  It seems that the car industry is now quite aggressively competing with technological innovations like XM and HD Radio, OnStar support, Pandora music streaming and existing […]

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All Your House Control are Belong to Us

::: nBlog ::: When our house construction was completed in 2007, I started to connect various existing control devices and sensors to the BaseN Platform in order to initially verify energy efficiency figures of heating and cooling systems.  With an armada of 142 sensors and two redundant BaseN agents today the system has grown quite a lot […]

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Cyber Superiority

::: nBlog ::: I’m continuing a bit about national security, and what it means today – as for a couple of months we’ve been in a dialogue with some of the national authorities responsible for critical functions of the society.  Say I’m running a paper factory and it comes under physical attack by a foreign government […]