Pasi Hurri, President and CEO of BaseN Corporation, will talk about “Data Gathering for a Clean Energy Future” as part of the first CASSANDRA Workshop taking place on September 11th in Coventry, United Kingdom. Project CASSANDRA aims to build a platform for the realistic modeling of the energy market stakeholders, also involving small-scale consumers. CASSANDRA will provide users with the […]
My car is a legacy Saab Aero from 2003, with turbocharged 2.3 litre engine and automatic transmission. When I plug in my laptop into it via the standard OBD-II port, I can talk to four different computers and 112+ sensors and actuators thoughout the car. The OBD-II standard has been used in all cars since […]
Vacations are over, even sun (or clouds) seem to know that. Today was the first time in July that our house required external power to heat hot water, as the last two days have seen little or no sunlight. However, our 8.6 sqm solar collectors are far more efficient than what I expected. Meanwhile, a meeting with […]
Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors is about to raise up to 178M$ of additional venture capital in order to develop fully electric cars for real use, not just for people who have a different roadster for each day of the week. Although the IPO was successful, analysts warn that Toyota, GM, Mitsubishi and other existing automakers may […]
We had a refreshing summer storm yesterday here at Degerö, with gust speeds exceeding 20 m/s. For our house, it meant more than 50% energy surplus as the 5 kW wind turbine generated 2.6kW in average for more than 20 hours. It’s a record this year. Peak power reached 8.2 kW after which the turbine automatically slowed […]
I am deeply honored to have received an invitation to one of the Holy Places (in my quantum mechanical world view) – namely Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a landmark research facility that has been instrumental in many world changing endeavors, like the Manhattan Project. This time it is not about discovering Plutonium, but on how to globally […]
It is a kind of David-Goljat feeling, winning the likes of eBay and HP at the Uptime Institute contest. It all boils down to rigorous measurements, without which we would not have started the project in the first place. Check an IT publication near you or our news page for details. Now bit of celebration […]
::: events ::: Jukka Paananen, Vice President, Sales at BaseN will highlight the importance of real-time electricity consumption measurements at a seminar (“Äly leviää sähkö verkkoon? – Uutta liiketoimintaa ja energiatehokkuutta”) in Helsinki on April 10th, 2013. The core of his presentation will be the Adjutantti case, an unique apartment building with sophisticated BaseN-powered individual […]
A couple weeks ago I was invited to the Finnish parliament’s finance committee to present BaseN’s views, together with three major energy companies. The subject was a new law related to energy efficiency services provided by the utilities. What really struck me was that my CEO colleagues in the briefing only tried to slow down […]
Reuters published an extensive article about the new Academica data center under the Uspenski cathedral. I have to say I’m somewhat surprised on buzz about this project, as it was initially started by myself and the BaseN Chief Engineer Kaj J. Niemi searching for a new, sustainable location for the BaseN Platform in the Helsinki […]