Author: BaseN

::: nBlog ::: During and just after this Christmas we’ve witnessed multiple Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks primarily towards national media portals, lastly towards the Finnish Broadcasting Company, interrupting most radio/tv network streams and news delivery for a couple of hours. Many of our customers have used the BaseN Platform successfully in maintaining situational awareness and been thus […]

::: nBlog ::: Upon arriving here in Orlando for the TMForum Management World, the car rental company was nice enough to give me a 2013 Cadillac ATS with a bargain price.  It seems that the car industry is now quite aggressively competing with technological innovations like XM and HD Radio, OnStar support, Pandora music streaming and existing […]

::: nBlog ::: When our house construction was completed in 2007, I started to connect various existing control devices and sensors to the BaseN Platform in order to initially verify energy efficiency figures of heating and cooling systems.  With an armada of 142 sensors and two redundant BaseN agents today the system has grown quite a lot […]

::: nBlog ::: I’m continuing a bit about national security, and what it means today – as for a couple of months we’ve been in a dialogue with some of the national authorities responsible for critical functions of the society.  Say I’m running a paper factory and it comes under physical attack by a foreign government […]

::: nBlog ::: On Tuesday I met with her royal highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned of Qatar, who was visiting Finland with a team of Qatari research, development and innovation leaders.  Although Qatar is prospering very well due to their natural gas reserves, they’re putting a lot of resources into ensuring that the country […]

::: nBlog ::: During the previous world wars, many occupied states had their government-in-exiles hosted and protected by other nations. While their effective governance was limited, these nations could still ie. issue passports and execute agreements, and, most importantly, coordinate resistance in their home countries.  An independent nation has various definitions, but generally it can take […]

::: nBlog ::: Last Tuesday I visited Tallinn, Estonia and met with their prime minister Andrus Ansip together with the AmCham executive team. In his keynote speech Mr. Ansip did not try to hide his pride about the Estonian economy and several consecutive budgets with surplus.  Estonia can’t be said to be a rich country […]

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::: nBlog ::: When we pay salaries to our people in the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Spain and the US, it has always frustrated me that transferring the required funds from a bank to another takes at least 24 hours and sometimes three working days. Technically speaking, these transactions could happen in milliseconds, as nearly all banks […]

::: nBlog ::: Energy efficiency is a hot sales argument today for a multitude of products and services. Although financial savings may be microscopic in things like mobile phone chargers and washing machines, branding something green is a fashionable choice for any marketer. By haphazardly invoking Einstein I can extend the concept of energy to nearly everything, […]