nBlog archive: 2019

Walking containers

A few weeks ago I had the privilege to visit Cargotec Kalmar’s ‘harbor on a dry land’ near Tampere, Finland. CONTINUE READING

Digital Sauna & Pool

A few years back I decided to build a mobile sauna & pool with my brother. CONTINUE READING

Networks, IoT, CDN and DDoS

BaseN has grown to be the Platform of choice for a multitude of mission critical industries, and some businesses running on top of us have hundreds of thousands of end customers, who take flawless access 24/7 for granted. CONTINUE READING

Lifelong learning in the AI era

As our shareholders arrived to our general meeting to appoint a new board member, I had a chat with one of our original team members about self driving cars. CONTINUE READING

Telecom Leaps

Last Friday I finally decided to replace my home access router, a Cisco 877W which had served me well for the last 12 years. CONTINUE READING

ARMed and..

Softbank, the Japanese telecom/everything provider with its 30 year business plan and 300 year strategy, recently acquired ARM Holdings with a record sum of 24 billion pounds. CONTINUE READING

nBees

A couple of weeks ago we accidentally run into an interesting, albeit failed project, which aimed to digitalize beekeeping. CONTINUE READING

Enabling Health

I have been prescribed blood pressure medication for most of my adult life, starting in 1992 when I was in the military. CONTINUE READING

Technological Wasteland

Intelligence gathering and services have existed since the earliest civilizations. Until now, however, those have been relatively expensive, requiring a lot of manpower and structures. CONTINUE READING

Drone Protocol

Some time ago I wrote about my first computer-radio-controlled car, which I constructed in 1984 around my Commodore 64 and a 4-way relay controller. CONTINUE READING

Åland Next

A few weeks ago I returned again to Åland, the Finnish, autonomous region between Finland and Sweden. CONTINUE READING

Digital Opportunism

Most larger companies and organizations we now work with have a some kind of digitalization strategy. CONTINUE READING

Measurable Medicine

Next week we’ll demonstrate our initial measurements coming from humans instead of those usual machines. This will not be brain EEG yet, but blood pressure and pulse from our booth visitors in TM Forum event in Nice. CONTINUE READING

An Intern is never just an Intern

During my 30 years of managing people, I’ve conducted and participated in hundreds of job interviews, ranging from hiring interns all the way to getting a skilled technical VP. CONTINUE READING

Ships & Sustainability

My first private sector job was at A. Ahlstrom, a Finnish, but early globalized conglomerate originally established in 1865; also a BaseN customer since 2002. CONTINUE READING

Data does not equal innovation

For most of its customers, BaseN is the platform of choice for collecting vast amounts of crucial data, ranging from production processes to full predictive maintenance, e.g. how the products perform at the end customers. CONTINUE READING

Service or no Service (But don’t make a mess in the middle)

We’ve now lived in the countryside for more than 10 years CONTINUE READING

Whose Cloud is it Anyway?

In IoT marketing, many providers boast that they provision their services from their own cloud. Some are also using wording like full stack, similarly to BaseN. CONTINUE READING

Bimetal Tyranny

After eventful flights, including an unannounced stopover to Milwaukee, I finally reached Denver, Colorado. CONTINUE READING