Blogs and cases
Blogs and customer cases
Do I need an Indigo transmitter or just an Indigo probe?
- Greenhouses and Indoor Farming
- Industrial Manufacturing and Processes
- Industrial Measurements
- Innovations and Inspirations
- Life Science
- Sustainability
The Vaisala Indigo family is a modular solution with interchangeable probes, smart transmitters, and Indigo Insight PC software. There are many...
Where’s all my lightning?
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
Among the sights and sounds of summer are lightning and thunder. They are wedded with our culture, so much so, that in places with higher...
Video Q&A: Guidance documents, references, and advice for warehouse mapping
- Life Science
In this video, we answer questions we didn’t have time for during our June webinar “Continuous Mapping in Warehouses: Better Data, Better...
Making your own thunderstorm (do NOT try this at home!)
- Weather & Environment
- Meteorology
Note to readers: Thunderstorms are dangerous and creating your own would be a foolhardy effort. The method of thunderstorm manufacturing we are...
The effect of vaporized hydrogen peroxide on dew point
- Industrial Manufacturing and Processes
- Life Science
In bio-decontamination applications that use vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VH 2 O 2 ), it can be useful to know when condensation will occur...
How lidar is expanding wind energy, one site at a time
- Renewable energy
The challenge: Conduct wind resource assessments in promising, hard-to-assess locations Meventus is a renewable energy consultancy with offices...
Predictive Maintenance with Oil Moisture Measurement
- Industrial Manufacturing and Processes
- Industrial Measurements
Moisture is a known contaminant in a wide variety of applications and processes, but the presence of moisture in industrial use oil can be...
To launch or not to launch: the impact of weather on space launches
- Space exploration
- Weather & Environment
- Meteorology
- Innovations and Inspirations
Space launches, such as the upcoming launch of the Perseverance rover currently scheduled for July 30, are precise and expensive missions, where...
Out-of-spec sensors, incubator hot/cold spots & 21 CFR Part 11 compliance
- Life Science
Edited transcript below In this video interview, Vaisala Senior Regulatory Expert answers three questions from customers and industry contacts...
Build, test, repeat – assembling space equipment is manual work
- Space exploration
- Innovations and Inspirations
Years of work in the manufacture of measuring instruments will come to an important crossroads when the equipment is launched by rocket to its...
Road weather forecasting
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
In our previous blog post , we focused on how weather impacts road users and their safety. One key conclusion: Combining today’s connected car...
South Asian Lightning Network SALNet initiated
- Weather & Environment
- Meteorology
The South Asia Lightning Network (SALNet) was initiated in a remarkable first meeting on June 25 - 26. This meeting of lightning interests in...
Marching out to Mars! Why are researchers interested in the red planet?
- Innovations and Inspirations
- Space exploration
The Earth's neighbour, Mars, is an enticing research subject for atmospheric researchers: the atmosphere of this barren planet is like a...
How does Vaisala detect lightning?
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
How can Vaisala detect lightning around the world ? How can sensors at a small number of locations detect lightning so far away? Angles and...
Shelters from the storm: How wind lidar is keeping ports safe and operational
- Maritime
- Weather & Environment
(For more, see "Ports in a Storm," co-authored by Ludovic Thobois and Remy Parmentier of Leosphere, a Vaisala company, in Meteorological...
Managing megacities: How scanning lidar is protecting increasingly city-bound populations
- Meteorology
(For more, see "City Limits," co-authored by Ludovic Thobois and Remy Parmentier of Vaisala, in Meteorological Technology International.) With...
Lightning safety around the world
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
Huge amounts of lightning occur around the world, and over two billion lightning events have been detected each of the last five years! These...
Creating space-proof technology
- Innovations and Inspirations
- Space exploration
Vaisala’s pressure and humidity sensors are soon on their way to Mars once again as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, in collaboration...
Staying lightning safe in the great outdoors
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
For more than 15 years, we’ve been saying: “When thunder roars, go indoors”. And in 2016, “See a flash, dash inside” was introduced. It’s just...
Lightning safety for your business
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
The threat of thunderstorms around your facility provides challenges around keeping personnel and customers safe while also minimizing...