Blogs and cases
Blogs and customer cases
Why Not Use Public Resource Data Sets for Solar Resource Assessment?
- Renewable energy
- Solar energy
You're a developer who is working on a large solar project and you're deciding which solar resource data set to use. You've got a tight deadline...
Vaisala MHT410 Moisture, Hydrogen and Temperature Transmitter for online transformer condition monitoring
- Power Generation and Transmission
Reference customer Use MHT410 as key part of long-term maintenance strategy "With Vaisala's MHT410 transmitter we have an altogether more...
Vaisala & U.S. Department of Energy Research Effort Will Improve Wind Energy Forecast Accuracy
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
Rich meteorological dataset from 18-month measurement campaign now publicly available to support DOE wind forecasting improvement project and...
Warm, Wet First Quarter Negatively Impacts U.S. Solar Performance
- Renewable energy
- Solar energy
- Weather & Environment
A Review of How Weather Influenced Solar Performance in Q1 2017 Vaisala regularly monitors solar performance around the world to give the...
A perspective for Air Quality and Vaisala
- Environmental and Public Health Protection
- Working at Vaisala
That's me in Beijing. Not very approachable, huh? I don't usually try to look like Bane from Batman, but there was a reason at the time. AQ...
Lightning Casualties in the Developing World
- Meteorology
- Sustainability
- Weather & Environment
There is a major difference between lightning deaths and injuries in the developing world compared with more developed countries. In the U.S...
Windshear - The Invisible Threat
- Aviation
- Environmental and Public Health Protection
- Weather & Environment
Windshear is most commonly caused by downdraft-generated microbursts hitting the ground and rapidly spreading in all directions. Air Traffic...
Ever Felt Like the Air is Running out in the Room?
- Buildings and Indoor Air Quality
- Working at Vaisala
Outdoor air pollution has been a hot topic in public for quite a while due to the rising number of health symptoms and even deaths the...
CO2 monitoring helps make defect-free potato chips
- Industrial Measurements
One of the most unpopular potato chip defects is a result of exposure to elevated levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) during storage.
How Shenzhen Subway keeps it cool
- Buildings and Indoor Air Quality
- Industrial Measurements
A quickly growing subway system in southern China chose Vaisala’s humidity and temperature transmitters for its air conditioning control system...
McKesson Specialty Health achieves over 100 audits without a single observation
- Innovations and Inspirations
- Life Science
Bullet-proof environmental monitoring technology that answers auditors’ questions. McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 5th on the FORTUNE 500...
TVO nuclear power plant monitors transformer condition in real-time
- Power Generation and Transmission
Finnish nuclear power company Teollisuuden Voima implemented Vaisala’s online hydrogen, moisture and temperature monitor to constantly follow...
Radiosonde – The Invention That Made Vaisala
- Innovations and Inspirations
- Meteorology
- Sustainability
- Weather & Environment
- Working at Vaisala
Vaisala's origins date back to the 1930's when Professor Vilho Väisälä , Vaisala's founder and long-time managing director, invented the...
The Pärnu River basin pilot project
- Sustainability
- Weather & Environment
- Innovations and Inspirations
In spring 2010, Vaisala released a pilot version of a coupled meteorological-hydrological forecasting system as part of a co-operation project...
Supporting Radioactivity Monitoring in Japan
- Sustainability
Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 led to the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. The 9.0 magnitude...
Vaisala Tsunami Detection Network in Chile
- Sustainability
- Weather & Environment
- Meteorology
At 03:34 a.m. on February 27th 2010, a devastating earthquake and series of tsunamis suddenly hit the central–south coast of Chile. The 8.8...
The Importance Of Accurate Solar Performance Predictions
- Renewable energy
- Solar energy
Developing a utility-scale solar project requires a large upfront investment, which makes accurately predicting how much power it will produce a...
Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador
- Innovations and Inspirations
- Sustainability
Destructive, damaging weather can wreak havoc across communities, especially vulnerable ones with limited resources and education about...
Vaisala Honorary In-kind Donator for New Children’s Hospital
- Life Science
- Sustainability
Vaisala will be contributing humidity, temperature, and carbon dioxide measurement instruments to the new children’s hospital to be constructed...
Keeping data centers cool
- Industrial Measurements
- Sustainability
Increasing demand for data processing and storage capacity has led to major companies investing in new facilities that provide web-based...