Warm thanks to all our customers and partners for the past year! As in previous years, we have donated this year’s Christmas gift funds to charity: Finnish Red Cross: aid in Finland & disaster relief fund SOS-Lapsikylä: children and families…
A warm thank you to all our clients and associates for the past year! As in previous years, we have donated our Christmas gifts to charity: Save the Children – supporting Ukrainian families MIELI Mental Health Finland – mental health…
Traditional machinery and equipment manufacturers have long been shifting from machinery production only, towards data management. Several kinds of data are being gathered on machinery and its use: maintenance data, data on parts in production batches, customer contacts, problem solving,…
Autonomous machines and self-driving cars receive a lot of media attention and the buzz around the topic is big. The terminology is not always very clear – what is the difference between a robot and an autonomous machine – or…
While staunchly in remote working mode due to the coronavirus pandemic, Atostek is expanding to Jyväskylä, hiring its first employee from Central Finland. For now, the company will not be setting up a full-scale traditional office at the new location…
The role of software in industrial environments is constantly growing: there is more software, they’re more complex and more dependent on each other. They are often responsible for remarkable or even dangerous machinery. However, on the basis of my diploma…
Finns have been concerned in the early part of this year, among other things, with the slow rate at which people have been vaccinated. Atostek, a software company originating from Tampere, has developed a solution that makes vaccine distribution and…
The common promises of IT service providers, software houses and application developers include focusing on the customer, user experience and added value. These all are well-meaning goals, however, there is one crucial factor missing: the computer. In order to achieve…
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is preparing the introduction of a digital vaccination certificate. In practice, the vaccination certificate will be implemented as a part of the My Kanta service. Vaccination data must be documented at the vaccination…
This post is based on my master’s thesis, in which the goal was to implement a genetic algorithm for beacon placement design. Genetic algorithms are not a new concept, and neither is locating objects based on distance measurements. But the…
