Due to the global pandemic, the annual Future of Robotics in Finland seminar will take place virtually on Friday, November via Zoom. The seminar is organized by BaseN and the IEEE Finland Joint Chapter of Control System Society Robotics and Automation Society and System, Man and Cybernetics Society and will address Ethics for autonomous robots in military and […]
In its 18-year journey, BaseN has witnessed numerous triumphs in digital product deployments and service conversions, both on the BaseN Platform and other environments. However, there’s a silent underbelly of failed IoT projects that never make it to the commercial realm, with some companies experiencing multiple consecutive setbacks, breeding a reluctance to venture again. Understanding […]
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. The hills have direct line-of-sight to each other and are usually a few kilometers apart. While Finland is often titled as […]
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. Mission planning and longer term weather adaptation […]
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. One of them is […]
Embark on a transformative journey across the seas with the advent of smart sails in shipping. Witness the sustainable evolution of maritime transportation as innovative spime technology not only optimizes fuel efficiency but also paves the way for a future where ships become autonomous entities, guided by precision and real-time data. The shipping and waterway […]
A few years back I decided to build a mobile sauna & pool with my brother. Although it may sound like a seriously non-digital asset, I ended up equipping it with a 4G connection, car-independent battery, 200W solar panel, led convenience lighting, temperature sensors, door locking indicators, GPS and a small internal display. Lights are […]
Last Friday I finally decided to replace my home access router, a Cisco 877W which had served me well for the last 12 years. Its venerable Alcatel ADSL chipset had, after a few thunderstorms, finally started to degrade to a point that the connection was breaking up a couple of times a day. Like all […]
A couple of weeks ago we accidentally run into an interesting, albeit failed project, which aimed to digitalize beekeeping. Honey-producing bees are very sensitive what comes to their environment, meaning temperature, humidity and other parameters such as microparticle pollution and ambient noise levels. The disappearance of large swathes of bees around the world is still […]
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. Todays’s Internet, in turn, provides a very affordable, virtually free data warehouse for intelligence operatives. Recently revealed PRISM and XKeyScore probably carry a combined price tag with a smaller number than a single […]