Fitwel Building Standard Fitwel is a leading certification programme that optimises buildings and communities to promote health and wellbeing. Originally developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. General Services Administration, and the Center for Active Design, Fitwel has been created based on extensive research, analysing over 3,000 academic studies. Their [...]
Topics in focus: What is air pressure? Why it is important to measure air pressure in office and commercial buildings? What effects can air pressure have on health and wellbeing? Monitoring air pressure Air pressure, also known as atmospheric or barometric pressure, is the force applied by air molecules as they press down on [...]
“Cold-chain” refers to a supply chain that delivers products and/or materials that will be spoiled or even destroyed if temperatures vary beyond the prescribed range, this can be anything from refrigeration, food ingredients to refrigerated vaccines. As implied with sensitive goods, it can be very costly for companies to redeliver if products are wasted [...]
"How do we get started with hybrid working?" and "When can we go back to work, back to the office, back to business as usual?" These questions are on the lips of many. While many are (and have been) eager to see restrictions lifted, we must remain patient, and this time around – think [...]
It is very known that gyms are found to have heightened concentrations of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and unsurprisingly lots of airborne dust. If there’s ever a place where indoor air quality monitoring is useful, it’s certainly in gyms, and other physical activities centres. It is easy to speculate that human emission is [...]
Read Thought Leadership Markku Patronen, CEO Founder, Connected Finland & Connected Inventions No longer a nice-to-have: IoT solutions monitor the quality of the air we breathe to keep us safe, healthy and productive. Indoor concentrations of some pollutants are often two to five times higher than typically outdoors’. Indoor air pollution has increased in [...]
Sigfox is the largest IOT ecosystem in the world and has spread into 75 countries. It enables measuring and managing objects of all kind with less associated costs than ever before. The usage of the technology is growing with increasing pace and as a good example the amount of devices in Finnish Sigfox network [...]
Connected Ranger tracker is the latest addition to the Connected product family. Ranger makes tracking assets easy and the device works both indoors as well as over long distances. As the tracker travels, the device scans for surrounding WiFi networks and MAC addresses, which are then translated to match physical location information. Ranger is [...]
In Finland, where 0G coverage is already at 85 %, smart offices are well on their way to becoming as common as smart homes. Ida Vehnämäki, Communications Specialist at Connected Finland, gave Marion Moreau, director of Sigfox Foundation, a glimpse into the astonishing changes taking place in offices around the country since the 0G revolution. So [...]