Blogs and cases
Blogs and customer cases
Vaisala Becomes a World Leader in Remote Wind Sensing through Acquisition of Leosphere
- Renewable energy
- Wind energy
Vaisala announced yesterday that we acquire all the shares in Leosphere SAS, a French company specializing in developing, manufacturing and...
Hot topics from Cigre 2018: digitalization, big data, and the future of the power industry
- Power Generation and Transmission
We recently returned from the CIGRE 2018 Technical Exhibition, held in Paris from 26-31 August. At the event, our expert team met with many...
Air Quality Sensors and Modelling Draw Audiences in Peru
- Environmental and Public Health Protection
During a recent trip in Peru earlier this year, Vaisala and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) joined forces in arranging a number of...
Air Quality Network Pilot Progressing in Nanjing
- Environmental and Public Health Protection
The construction work to build up a new air quality network pilot in the city of Nanjing in the Yangtze River Delta in China is progressing at a...
Hurricanes Bring Wind... and Lightning
- Environmental and Public Health Protection
- Weather & Environment
As Hurricane Florence approaches the east coast of the United States, threatening catastrophic consequences, it gives us a unique opportunity to...
Keeping an eye on the road
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
How advancements in computer vision and wireless communication are changing the way we manage transportation infrastructure The speed at which...
Automated anonymization of visuals with computer vision
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
Vaisala’s anonymization service is capable of detecting and anonymizing vehicles and pedestrians in images and video material. This technology...
Project Environment Channel Wins Vaisala’s Challenge in World Challenge Finland 2018 Competition
- Environmental and Public Health Protection
Project Environment Channel, a service that visualizes the air quality data in very creative way, wins Vaisala’s challenge aiming to reduce the...
Vaisala’s Global Lightning Dataset GLD360 Begins New Era for Lightning Detection
- Weather & Environment
Vaisala is proud to introduce the latest major upgrade to the GLD360 global lightning detection network. After months of fine-tuning the...
Vaisala online DGA monitoring: Prevent transformer faults and protect power generation assets
- Power Generation and Transmission
Vaisala provided Zhejiang Zheneng Shaoxing Binhai Thermoelectric with the Optimus DGA Monitor OPT100, which enables online monitoring of the...
Vaisala’s Weather Radars in Colombia
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
Vaisala’s weather radars and global lightning data help increase awareness of severe weather in Colombia and along its oceanic routes. Colombia...
Gaining In-depth Understanding of the Problem is The Key - Millennium Technology Prize Winner Tuomo Suntola interviewed
- Innovations and Inspirations
Doctor Tuomo Suntola, who this spring received the prestigious 2018 Millennium Technology Prize for his technology of atomic layer deposition...
Road Weather Data is a Precious Thing
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
“Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves,” said Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web. Ensuring...
Boston IVF ensures ideal CO2 for embryos in assisted reproduction with Vaisala calibration
- Life Science
Boston IVF provides Assisted Reproductive Technology including in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 28 locations throughout the greater Boston area...
Video Analysis with Computer Vision – Ultimate Format for Traffic Sign Inventories
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
Automation is interesting in almost every repetitive or simple task; traffic sign mapping and inventories are an excellent use case to be...
Certified Reliability for the Seas
- Weather & Environment
Improving the performance of ship onboard machinery is an ongoing challenge for ship builders and shipping companies. When precise and detailed...
Vaisala’s Optimus DGA Monitor OPT100 guards against impact of solar flares
- Power Generation and Transmission
Elimpus Ltd has installed several of Vaisala’s online transformer monitoring solutions on behalf of Scottish Power, a leading British energy...
Global Lightning Data Essential for Operational Excellence
- Aviation
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
Issues caused by lightning are some of the most common — and dangerous — problems facing many businesses across the world today. The electrical...
Operational Safety Whatever the Weather at Kenyan Airports
- Aviation
- Weather & Environment
Weather affects the efficiency and safety of almost every operation at an airport, regardless of its size or location. But with the right...
A Smart Approach to Wind Anomalies
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
India's monsoon wind speeds have fallen by as much as 9% over the past two decades. Three of the past four years have been below average...