Blogs and cases
Blogs and customer cases
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...
Q&A from our webinar: Fast and efficient viral vaccines purification by sucrose density gradient
- Industrial Measurements
- Life Science
- Liquid Measurements
In this blog, we answer questions we received during our webinar " Fast and efficient viral vaccines purification by sucrose density gradient "...
Lightning data to kick off Lightning Safety Awareness Week
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
A huge amount of lightning occurs around the world and in the United States – more than you might think. Every cloud-to-ground flash represents...
International collaboration takes Vaisala and FMI to Mars, again
- Innovations and Inspirations
- Space exploration
Vaisala’s technology is known to withstand harsh environments, and what environment would be more unforgiving than space? In July, Vaisala’s...
Built to survive, even outside: the Vaisala Indigo500 Series
- Industrial Manufacturing and Processes
- Industrial Measurements
Some of our customers have applications that require measurement transmitters to be installed outside, so the Vaisala Indigo500 and its family...
Optimizing wind farm performance with WindCube nacelle-mounted lidar
- Renewable energy
The challenge: Underperforming wind farms, verify turbine measurements Valeco develops, finances, builds, and operates renewable energy projects...
Safe and efficient airport operations: Kenya Meteorological Department
- Aviation
The challenge: Limited weather data leaving too much up in the air Weather affects the efficiency and safety of almost every operation at an...
Chile Case Study: Monitoring aviation safety in diverse climates
- Aviation
The challenge: Ensure flight frequency and safety in remarkably different climates and locales Chile's civil aviation authority, Dirección...
Striking history: Lightning and the Washington Monument
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
It probably comes as no surprise that those of us at Vaisala made up more than a handful of the more than 11 million views of the Washington...
Dealing with Waked Measurements in Wind Energy Assessments
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
As wind industry buildout continues, it is more common to encounter measurements with data collected in a waked environment. What was once...
Continuing Current Dataset identifies the lightning strokes with potential to be the most destructive
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
In 2018, we announced a first-of-its-kind technology to identify cloud-to-ground lightning strokes that produce continuing current . This...
Social sustainability is more relevant than ever in international business
- Sustainability
Social sustainability is an integral part of global sustainable development. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for social...
VH2O2 probe questions you've asked... and some you wished you'd asked
- Life Science
Our application engineers receive a lot of questions on the HPP270 Series probes for vaporized hydrogen peroxide . In this blog we answer...
Innovation on the road: How the borough of Bexley is gaining efficiency with Road AI
- Meteorology
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
The challenge: Improve road surveys, leverage more data Bexley is an outer London borough situated on the edge of Kent and maintains a...
Using road weather services to improve driver safety
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
Adverse weather creates plenty of trouble for drivers around the world (source: US DoT FHWA): On average, 20 – 25% of all road accidents are...
100% renewable electricity target spearheads our environmental sustainability
- Sustainability
UN Sustainable Development Goals Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG 12), Climate Action (SDG 13), and Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG...
Indigo500 series transmitter improves control of malting process
- Industrial Manufacturing and Processes
- Industrial Measurements
As one of the world’s leading suppliers of high quality malt products, Viking Malt has investigated the advantages of continuous humidity...
Seasonal forecasting of renewables: How to win at the Roulette table?
- Renewable energy
- Solar energy
- Sustainability
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
Renewable energy owners, operators, and their shareholders are naturally curious about how their wind or solar production will turn out next...
Balancing the field: Controlled environment agriculture through measurement technology
- Greenhouses and Indoor Farming
- Industrial Measurements
Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) is one of the fastest growing segments in food markets around the world. As the demand for locally...
Grounded: The impact of a pandemic on weather observations
- Weather & Environment
- Meteorology
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting nearly every business sector around the world, and meteorological observation is no exception. While many...