nBlog archive: 2020

Security Awareness

This week’s bombshell cybersecurity news about the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other US government agencies penetrated by foreign hackers has some very important underpinnings what comes to overall situational awareness of networks and systems deployed in critical infrastructures. CONTINUE READING

Rust and Chernobyl

During my teenage years in Helsinki’s Puistola, next to my beloved and now endangered Malmi airport, two events had special impact to my thinking and world view. One was the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the following confusion with official actions and communication. CONTINUE READING

Security Culture, Cloud aka Other People’s Computers

Since last Thursday, the press in Finland has been glowing hot about a massive data leak from a psychotherapy clinic. Records of up to 40.000 people, including patient case summaries, were hacked. CONTINUE READING

Who controls your customer base?

Since last Thursday, the press in Finland has been glowing hot about a massive data leak from a psychotherapy clinic. Records of up to 40.000 people, including patient case summaries, were hacked. CONTINUE READING

Crossing the Digital Product Shame

During its 18 years, BaseN has encountered many successful product digitalization and service conversion projects, often deployed on BaseN Platform but also within other platforms and environments. CONTINUE READING

Digital to Analog Paralysis

Here on the coastal countryside we live in, there are numerous Swedish-language places called ‘Telegrafberget’, meaning Telegraph Hill. Some of them still have stone or wooden foundations where the tall telegraph buildings once stood. CONTINUE READING

Humans & AI Diplomacy

We’ve recently put quite some effort to our Spime Enablement Services (SES) framework, which, among few other interesting things, is now able to control our semi-autonomous drone Ohan-1. The local drone program handles avionics and real-time control, while being continuously updated by the SES master we call Sandbox. CONTINUE READING

Spime Your Core Business

In a world largely still without spime, the next generation digital twin: Concentrate on your core business! Specialize on your niche and be the world leader in it! Decide what not to do! Sell off anything else! Ditch other than most profitable customers! Conglomerates are dead! CONTINUE READING

Leading your Feelings, too

In my career, I have had the luxury to see and be part of many different people organizations, ranging from a paper mill shift to a government situation room. Although tasks are vastly different, leadership presents itself in surprisingly similar ways. CONTINUE READING

Roots of Sustainability

In 1988, I started working on a global IP network called AGNET for A. Ahlstrom Corporation. Although the company was primarily about pulp & paper, heavy machinery and packaging, it had long roots in being an early adopter of latest information technologies an communications. CONTINUE READING

Scalable, Fault Tolerant and Distributed

Those are the original principles on which we’ve built BaseN. During the last 19 years, our self-sufficiency and independence from the global cloud and singular network providers, and third parties in general has sometimes been called into question as old-fashioned and heavy. CONTINUE READING

Antifragility

During changing times like now, I often miss the discussions with my long-time mentor and board member Jan Inborr, who suddenly passed away three years ago. CONTINUE READING

Scaling Coronasensors

The COVID-19 virus is fairly difficult to detect and currently requires expensive laboratory devices, and especially time which we mostly don’t have in this unprecedented global health emergency. Viruses are small, and although coronaviruses are fairly large due to their complexity, there’s only a handful of methods for detecting them faster. CONTINUE READING

Energy Elephants

Some time ago I visited a private automobile museum in The Netherlands, together with our chairman Julf Helsingius; himself a collector of rare Land Rovers. CONTINUE READING

5G and the Governor of Your Business

Network equipment vendors and telecom operators alike are now painting futuristic visions on how their soon-to-be-deployed 5G networks will transform our cities, healthcare, mobility, manufacturing and many other areas. CONTINUE READING

Spimes Waterborne

The shipping and waterway industry has existed for some thousands of years, being the natural, stable way of transporting merchandise. CONTINUE READING

Don’t Fly Spimeless

During the year-end holidays I completed the Ohan4, the fourth BaseN nDrone prototype. Unlike Ohan1-3, the Ohan4 was a miniature tricopter design, with a single, servo-tilting rear motor and 12 centimeter propellers. CONTINUE READING