Newsletter Q4 2014
December 10, 2014
Jingle bells ring, let the last lap begin
The year is approaching end and we can
already here the bells jingle for Christmas.
They also jingle for the start of the last lap
in our program.
to Petra Söderling from MBB for getting the
Digile - Digital Services flag flying high.
Check out the Video blogs from SLUSH:
http://www.activityblog.fi/category/videot/
Our
International
evaluation
was
completed in October and we got very
positive feed-back. We are state of the art
and in many ways unique in our capability.
So GOOD JOB everyone. There were
some recommendations that are worth
taking up; the most important one is go
International! Go to international venues,
pilot internationally, draft go to market
plans more aggressively. Good news, this
is exactly what we have in the plans for
2015.
Finally I would like to wish all our partners
a relaxing holiday season. I hope you can
find the time to recharge as next year is
going to be a blast.
Roope Takala
Focus Area Director
Digile – Digital Services
Roope.takala@nokia.com
During the last quarter we have again had
some stellar successes. In this case is
almost literally as Vaadin piloted project
RUMS with NASA. Also worth is note the
‘Toolbox Energy’ highlighted in this
newsletter. It goes without saying we were
at a prime place in SLUSH with Eliademy,
Wellmo and ProImpact. A special Thanks
Snapshot of Results
Vaadin to cooperate with NASA
Vaadin, an active participant in the
DIGILE Digital Services program, has
announced cooperation with NASA Ames
Research Center.
Their SimLabs group has chosen Vaadin’s
TouchKit technology as a platform for their
Remote User Monitor Station (RUMS) to
facilitate certain NASA air traffic research
experiment. “We met NASA for the first
time at JavaOne already in 2010, where
they were looking for technology for
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building user friendly applications, without
a need for installing anything,” says Jurka
Rahikkala, COO and Co-Founder of
Vaadin. “ Two years later, when the
Research Lab (DSRL) of the SimLabs
group. RUMS allows authenticated users
to monitor an experiment in real-time
outside of the DSRL environment, and
allows users to download research data
from the UASRP server on-demand.
The RUMS client features a live display
showing the DSRL simulated air traffic in
real-time. RUMS also enables user
interaction with other components of the
UASRP such as a SQL database. In
addition, RUMS provides simulation status
information
as well
as graphical
representations of statistical measures
regarding aircraft separation and traffic
collision avoidance data.
TouchKit technology was mature enough,
NASA build the first iPad pilot with our help.
The pilot was a great success, and they
decided to build the application with Vaadin
and TouchKit.”
RUMS is a web portal created to facilitate
air traffic research experiments by allowing
researchers to interact with the Unmanned
Aircraft Systems Research Platform
(UASRP) in the Distributed Simulation
“We have done extensive research on how
to make mobile business application
development easy. We couldn’t have
imagined better validation and pilot for the
technology. NASA’s case gave us belief in
TouchKit and made it easy to continue the
work at full speed.” Rahikkala summarizes.
Jurka Rahikkala
jurka@vaadin.com
Toolbox Energy launched at Slush
Facile Business case within WP 1 has been
working on providing small and medium
sized
businesses
within
traditional
industries tools and support for easier
purchasing of digital services.
With the help of VTT and User Intelligence
Oy, Mobile Brain Bank launched the first
commercial interface from this business
case at Slush on November 18th, 2014.
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Toolbox Energy is a media hub and a
Showcase portal where selected and
validated ICT companies present their
offering tailored towards customers in the
energy industry.
Remarkable cost savings can also be
reached when the grid maintenance staff is
equipped with tablets and enterprise apps
featuring location sensors and video/still
cameras.
In the first phase the services are
categorized under ‘Big Data’, ‘Internet of
Things’, and ‘Enterprise Apps’.
Toolbox Energy is a global service,
planned to be followed by sister sites such
as Toolbox Retail, Toolbox Media, etc.
For example, data mining and analysis can
help
electricity
companies
predict
consumption peaks and time peak shaving,
hardware sensor and software solutions
can estimate wear and tear in turbines,
engines, or grid components and thus
provide cost savings.
Petra Söderling
petra@mobilebrainbank.com
www.ToolboxEnergy.com
Service pilot with Pivo in Oulu
The Financial Services Work Package has
produced updates, Pivo and Unicom
implemented a mobile payment pilot in
Oulu, Finland.
Through the pilot we learned a great deal
about user behaviour and expectations in
remote mobile payment transactions.
Using the modified version of Pivo (the
most popular mobile wallet in Finland)
employees of the city were able to pay their
lunch in select locations without any
additional equipment.
After pilot it is expected that similar
solutions will be deployed to produce cost
savings as there is no need for physical
equipment in PoS.
Kristian Luoma
kristian.luoma@op.fi
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Key Program Dates and Events 2015
28.1.2015
25.-26.3.2015
10.-11.6.2015
16.-17.9.2015
9.-10.12.2015
Digile Foresight Seminar
Q1 Review Seminar
Q2 Review Seminar
Q3 Review Seminar
Q4 Review Seminar
More information at collab.nokia.com, www.digital-services.fi, and www.digile.fi
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