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Crossing the Digital Product Shame – How to Thrive in this Era

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 […]

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Digital to Analog Paralysis: The 100-Year Digital Innovation Gap

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 […]

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Scalable, Fault Tolerant and Distributed – What Makes BaseN’s Unique DNA

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. “Develop fast, fail fast, don’t own any assets, concentrate on your core business!” […]

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Antifragility in a Changing World: Wisdom for Business Resilience

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. His 50 years in business and true devotion to training leaders has in many ways made me the CEO I am today. One of his most adamant doctrines was […]

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How Cloud Technology Enhances Rapid Virus Detection with Raman Spectroscopy

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 […]

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Energy Elephants: The Historical Shift in Automotive Innovation

Evolution of Electric and Hybrid Cars 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. Seeing how a single patron had preserved the history of the automobile industry was one thing, but those electric, gas and hybrid car models […]

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5G and the Governor of Your Business – Revolutionary or Overhyped?

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. While the 3 to 4G migration is still ongoing in many places, shareholders and telecom executives bet on […]

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From Steam to Spime: A New Generation of Maritime Innovation

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 […]

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Drone Chronicles: The Story of Ohan4’s Spimeless First Flight

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. Nevertheless, it sported a powerful STM32F7 flight controller and a Raspberry Pi Zero W as the spime-enabling secondary computer. With the miniature design, […]

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Unleashing Innovation: The New Quest for Walking Containers

A few weeks ago I had the privilege to visit Cargotec Kalmar’s ‘harbor on a dry land’ near Tampere, Finland. The site is one of their R&D hubs, with all their cargo-moving and lifting products being tested in a very real environment.  Most of their special cargo-moving vehicles are already fully digitalized and capable of […]