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Pakettipiste chose Kaltiot Smart Tracker
Pakettipiste has chosen the Kaltiot Smart Tracker service for monitoring cargo transport conditions in their delivery vans. The service has enabled them to monitor the interior temperature of delivery vans in real time as well as other parameters. Juha Tiittanen,...
Visibility into a steel plant’s processes by tracking steel ladles
Stock photo. Kaltiot and Sapotech developed a monitoring solution together which was used to gain more visibility into a Scandinavian steel plant's processes. Sapotech is a Finnish company which produces innovative high technology products and systems for monitoring...
What is fleet management? – equipment tracking 101
Fleet management means optimising the life cycle of an organization's movable assets. Movable assets include vehicles, machinery, and equipment that are used in day-to-day operations. Fleet management enables the company to keep track of: what equipment they have when...
A common fallacy in Finland about concrete drying
In Finland there's a strong belief that when drying concrete you only need to measure the humidity in the concrete itself. But this is wrong, for two reasons. To avoid mold problems, it's extremely important for concrete structures to dry sufficiently before...
Kaltiot won the Most Collaborative Use of Data category at the 2022 WDBE Summit
Kaltiot's Smart Tracker service, which tracks conditions, people, materials and tools on construction sites, took first place in the Most collaborative use of data category. World of Digital Built Environment, or WDBE, is the leading global forum and meeting place for...
What is IoT? – Internet of Things 101
IoT stands for Internet of Things. With IoT technology, physical devices can be connected to the internet and to each other. An IoT device can be practically anything, such as a smartwatch, a car, or a home appliance. It can also be a sensor that monitors the...
Continuous sensing vs. manual metering of temperature and humidity in construction: choose the tools that best suit your needs
Properly selected tools for managing and monitoring site conditions are key to efficiency and productivity. Temperature, relative humidity, particulate matter, air pressure, and TVOC can be tracked either automatically, using IoT sensors, or by manual measurement....
See you at Finnbuild October 4-6, 2022!
The international construction and building services trade fair, Finnbuild, will be held in Helsinki at the Messukeskus on October 4-6, 2022 and we will also be there. We will be exhibiting technology which can address many challenges in the construction industry,...
Kaltiot will be at the 2022 Logistics trade fair in Tampere
The most significant event in the logistics industry in Finland, Logistiikka, will be held 14.-15. syyskuuta Tampereen Messu- ja Urheilukeskuksessa. Find us at booth #C2070! We will exhibit our solution to companies' logistics problems. At our stand you can get to...
Lean construction is demanding – Sensors help to stay on schedule
Did you know that takt planning can shorten a construction timeline by up to 30%, according to leading construction companies Skanska and Fira? But to achieve a large time savings you need to know what is happening on site. This is made possible by sensors. What does...
Don’t waste euros on heating
Rising raw material and energy prices are forcing construction companies to think more carefully about their budgets and where they can save money. One potential savings area that few construction companies currently exploit is the optimisation of heating costs during...
Effective moisture management on Fira’s construction sites
Finnish construction company Fira keeps moisture management in residential buildings in balance with remote monitoring from Kaltiot. Fira can see where on the construction site action is needed to get the temperature and moisture balance right. Fira's systematic...
From pilot to every project
Fira has trusted Kaltiot's solutions for tracking temperature and humidity since 2018. The collaboration started with a construction site pilot, from which it has successfully moved to an efficient service solution which covers Fira's entire housing production....
Tracking usage of outdoor gyms with IOT technology in Helsinki
In 2021, the city of Helsinki had nearly 1300 different outdoor fitness devices available for residents to use. The equipment was spread across over 160 different outdoor gyms around the city. The city needed to track usage data to support wise resource usage and...
How does cost-effective IOT development work?
How do we implement IOT projects efficiently and cost-effectively? It's often possible to create a low-cost, high-quality IoT solution when the right tools are used. Sourcing hardware from the global market lowers costs Traditionally, companies that provide IOT...
Tracking employees at work – what does the law say?
In our previous blog, we explained what GDPR is and whether GDPR allows tracking employees' location. In this blog, we will go deeper into the issue of tracking employees from a legal perspective in Finland, according to EU and Finnish law. This post is a translation...
Efficient Fleet Management – Monitoring Posti’s Maxi Mail Carts
Posti wanted to maximize usage of their new maxi distribution etrolleys. Kaltiot Smart Tracker enables utilization rate monitoring and location tracking by taking advantage of Posti’s existing smart devices. Fleet management is cost-effective when the trolleys are...
Outdoor, battery-operated package lockers for the Finnish postal service
The main Finnish postal service needed self-service, battery-operated package pick-up lockers that would work outdoors without an external power supply in Arctic winters. The Finnish postal service didn't know if it was even possible, but they wanted package pick-up...
Tracking workers for fire safety in high-rise construction
High-rise construction is becoming more common in Finland, especially in the Helsinki metropolitan area, where 16-story residential buildings are becoming part of everyday life. In the Kalasatama neighborhood there are multiple 100+ meter apartment buildings....
Using IOT to avoid coronavirus transmission in the workplace
Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection among personnel can lead to extensive quarantine measures, or even temporary closure of the entire workplace if it is not possible to identify those potentially exposed to the virus. Finland’s Kaltio Technologies has developed a...
Covid-19 contact tracing for business
COVID-19 has made a major impact on an international scale, forcing governments and companies to shut down operations, for example, at construction sites, logistics centres and restaurants or in public services, education and elderly care. Resuming...
Smart Tracker in use at a construction site
Multiple use cases have been identified in the construction site through the pilots with Smart Tracker. For example, as a KiraDigi-project, a scissor lift tracking pilot had the primary purpose of testing the compatibility of wireless solution for construction site...
Tracking elevator components at a construction site
Kaltiot and KONE collaborated in Combient Foundry’s Venture Client Cycle focusing on construction site logistics. A total of just three startups were selected from over 200 applicants to co-create pilots with Stora Enso and KONE. Kaltiot developed two successful...
Tracking equipment at a construction site
Together with Ramirent and SRV, Kaltiot carried out construction phase indoor positioning in REDI, one of the largest construction projects in Finland at that time. The Kaltiot Smart Tracker system was used to monitor the location of scissor lifts on the project site....
Tracking sensitive cargo with IOT sensors
Approximately 20 percent of temperature-sensitive air cargo are scrapped due to broken cold chain. The total losses in temperature-sensitive air cargo add up to 30 billion euro annually. Sensitive cargo includes fish and other foods as well as medicine and...
What is GDPR? And is tracking employee location allowed?
The EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May 2016 with a two-year transitional period. Kaltiot's customers did not need to worry, as we were prepared for the regulation (GDPR) well in advance of its implementation from 25 May 2018. We...
Locating event hosts at an IT conference
When CGI, one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world, hosted Ratkaisu17, a significant international IT conference here in Finland, we wanted to use the opportunity to demonstrate how easy it was to set up a custom solution to a specific...
Kaltio Technologies in close co-operation with research communities.
“You wouldn’t be an R&D -company if you only did development. Research is our core functions. We are excited to be involved in many joint research projects.” says director Jyrki Polet who is in charge of partner relations. Team Kaltio has studied and developed IoT...
Kaltiot is the 1st IoT platform integrated to 5G Test Network available to developers free of charge
Kaltiot is the 1st service provider to integrate carrier grade IoT platform to 5G Test Network together with University of Oulu, Finland. Kaltiot studies LTE and 5G capabilities from end to end. With the Kaltiot SDK developers, can let the IoT platform take care of...
How to utilize our SDK and start using Kaltiot Smart IoT
Kaltiot Smart IoT is not complicated to use. On the contrary, we have made a lot of effort to make it as simple as possible for you to use. We've simplified the implementation into 6 steps, so sending your first message using Kaltiot Smart SDK is just a...
Providing Microsoft’s Push Notification Service.
Kaltiot was selected by Microsoft as the service provider for their mobile phone two-way secure push notification service when part of Nokia's mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. NNA was used in several mobile platforms. Members of the Kaltiot team originally...
The idea behind Kaltiot Smart IoT comes from learnings in secure mobile notifications.
Kaltiot Smart IoT is an “Internet of Things” messaging platform. It provides bi-directional, always online, secure and device battery optimizing communication. The idea for Kaltiot Smart IoT comes from a service called NNA (Nokia Notification API), a mobile device...
Security should be the forethought of a reliable IoT
Most IoT applications are still taking baby steps and therefore security is not fully understood as part of the overall IoT strategy. As businesses are struggling to get benefits out of development investments into IoT, security seems to be at the at the bottom...