BaseN and Digital Sustainability

Each year around this time, on the edge of the holiday season, I think of the year 2001. Especially now, as it’s now 20 years ago when I finally decided put together my ideas and the team, and establish BaseN. CONTINUE READING

Preparing for Unknown Unknowns

During my career and especially with BaseN, I’ve had the luxury of seeing a great many different kind of industries and companies, ranging from mining and slaughterhouses to space exploration, gaming and high-frequency trading. CONTINUE READING

Relativity, Business and Sustainability

When people describe their daily lives, private aspirations, careers and businesses during the many encounters I have with them on my line of work, I often hear comparisons to different ‘authorities’. CONTINUE READING

Calling the Shots

Our new prospects, customers and even our board often ask us about our differentiators to other platforms. We can easily throw a pelthora of technical arguments, talking about our scalability, distributed architecture and fault tolerance, but these are rarely the things customers base their decisions on. CONTINUE READING

Fire & Care?

After a warm summer weekend, our office neighborhood is often littered with electric scooters, abandoned by their casual users. Some are out of battery, some broken. When our harbor sea water is clear, one can spot a few on the bottom too. CONTINUE READING

The Allure of Fire & Forget

Time and again I see people making quick negative noise about products with newly introduced digital features. Whether it’s a connected farm tractor, car tyre or a Bluetooth tooth brush with an app, the easiest scoop is to scold the vendor for collecting data for mischievous purposes or somehow forcing the customer to pay more. CONTINUE READING

Camera No Spime

In 2006 when our house construction was completed, I bought a couple of Mobotix video surveillance cameras for security, but mainly to observe the nature around us. Mobotix is a German manufacturer of very durable and high quality surveillance cameras, and time and again I have also used their products in different BaseN customer sites. CONTINUE READING

Teleconferencing in the 90s

In early 1995, I was testing Ahlström’s first prototype teleconferencing system, which was implemented on a 64kbit/s ‘half-line’ between Helsinki and San Diego, through Atlanta, using dedicated hardware to emulate a private ISDN network over Frame Relay. CONTINUE READING

Sovereign Capabilities

Our societies are digitalising with an increasing pace. Our governments authenticate us, tax us, police us and take care of our health with an arsenal of digital technologies, sourced from different vendors on a globalized marketplace. CONTINUE READING

Car No Digital

For the last 10 years, many cars have been factory-equipped with 3G or LTE connectivity, while customers have been offered a mobile app or web portal to interact with the car: start heating, indicate location, open doors etc. In addition, same connectivity is used for emergency calls during accidents, which can be detected from airbag or other safety equipment triggering. CONTINUE READING

No 5G but 10G

Our own telecom fiber network building project here in Degerö (my home village) is on its final stages. The backbone connections are mostly completed. A number of homes, cottages and business facilities will be connected shortly. Each one with no less than 1 Gigabit per second symmetric capacity. CONTINUE READING

Digital Cabals

The last few days have seen unprecedented use of political power by cloud conglomerates like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and others. Digitalization accelerates with such speeds that most governments are hopelessly late (or powerless) in their regulation of equal access and commercial rules. CONTINUE READING