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Efficient Fleet Management – Monitoring Posti’s Maxi Distribution Trolleys with Kaltiot Smart Tracker
Posti wanted to reach the full benefit from the new maxi distribution etrolleys. Kaltiot Smart Tracker enables the monitoring of the trolleys’ utilization rate and location by using Posti’s own smart devices. Fleet management is cost-effective when the trolleys are...
New connected outdoor 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. The Finnish postal service didn't know if it was even possible, but they wanted package pick-up lockers that would...
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 tracking for social distancing and contact tracing in companies
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 at 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 Bluetooth-based solution for construction...
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...
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...