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Technology Leaps at Home: From Alcatel to Broadcom

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 […]

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Lost in the Hive: A Few Quick Lessons from a Beekeeping IoT Odyssey

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 […]

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Technological Wasteland – he Urgent Need for Strong Data Encryption in a Globalized World

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 […]

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Åland’s Renewable Energy Revolution: A Small Region with Big Ideas

A few weeks ago I returned again to Åland, the Finnish, autonomous region between Finland and Sweden. Their path and self-governance was already agreed by the League of Nations before WW2, and they’ve since fared well in business, including tourism, shipping and e.g. speciality agriculture produce. The reason for my visit in their capital Mariehamn […]

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Digital Opportunism: Reshaping Corporate DNA in the Digital Era

Most larger companies and organizations we now work with have a some kind of digitalization strategy. There’s either an internal department headed by a Chief Digital Officer, VP of Digital Transformation or something similar, or there’s a bunch of consultants looking into existing products and processes. Bunch of reports are written, but the real change […]

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Precision Medicine Unveiled: Human Measurements Steal the Spotlight

Next week, we’re breaking new ground as we shift our focus from traditional machine measurements to the fascinating realm of human metrics. Join us at the TM Forum event in Nice, where we’ll be conducting initial measurements, not of brain EEG just yet, but something equally intriguing – blood pressure and pulse from our booth […]

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Innovation Beyond Scale: Why More Data, Even the Unusual, Matters

For most of its customers, BaseN is the platform of choice for collecting vast amounts of crucial data, ranging from production processes to full predictive maintenance, e.g. how the products perform at the end customers. More advanced customers run entirly new digital product lines on top of BaseN Platform. The trend is clearly towards increasing […]