Podcasts about vaisala

Podcast del programa Imagen Empresarial transmitido originalmente el 24 de marzo del 2025. Conduce Rodrigo Pacheco. Los entrevistados de hoy: Entrevista: José Roberto Solano Pérez, Gerente de Análisis Económico, Cambiario y Bursátil en Monex Tema: ¿Qué impacto tuvo en los mercados la reciente decisión de política monetaria de la FED? ¿Qué esperar en el entorno económico y bursátil en las siguientes semanas, ya casi cerrando el primer trimestre del 2025? Entrevista: Alberto Cortés, director de Vaisala para América Latina y el Caribe Tema: Sustentabilidad e innovación: la clave para un futuro más eficiente

"Minua ei tämän kvartaalin tulos kiinnosta niin paljon kuin se, minkälainen vaikutus meillä on kymmenen vuoden päästä," Vaisalan hallituksen puheenjohtaja, omistajasuvun neljänteen sukupolveen kuuluva Ville Voipio sanoo. Vaisala on malliesimerkki yhtiöstä, jossa ankkuriomistajasuku pitää valtaa tiukasti käsissään. Yhtiöön mukaan lähtevän sijoittajan on paras luottaa pääomistajien näkemykseen siitä, miten yhtiötä tulee kehittää. Yhtiön äänivaltaosakkeet ovat suvun hallussa, ja pörssisijoittajille on tarjolla vain tapettipapereita. Sijoittajille lankeaa lähinnä rahoittajan ja riskinkantajan rooli. ”Omistaja ja sijoittaja saattavat olla vähän eri kapistukset. Näen sen niin, että omistaja on taho, joka voi ja haluaa ja kykenee ohjaamaan yhtiötä hyvin pitkällä aikavälillä. Sijoittaja on sellainen, joka löytää: tässä on kiva yhtiö, laitetaan tänne rahaa ja tämä tuottaa kivasti”, Voipio sanoo. Grillissä käsitellään omistajan ja sijoittajan roolia ja ennen muuta sitä, kuinka pörssiyhtiömaailmassa katsotaan vuosikymmenten päähän – jolloin ne kriisit, joita nyt pyritään ratkaisemaan, saattavat olla todellisuutta, jos ratkaisut eivät tepsi. Jälkimmäiseen asiakokonaisuuteen Voipio on oikea ihminen vastaamaan paitsi pörssiyhtiön hallituksen puheenjohtajana myös siksi, että hän opettaa Turun yliopiston kauppakorkeakoulussa työelämäprofessorina kestävää globaalia liiketoimintaa. Grillin äärellä Voipio antaa huutia ESG-reittauksille ja valitsee itselleen 50-vuotisjuhlajuoman. Marinadi-osiossa mietitään, onko yhtiön kotipaikalla sijoittajalle tuon taivallista merkitystä. "Monet eri toimialat ovat riippuvaisia jonkin maan taloustilanteesta ja sen muutoksista", S-Pankin osakesijoituksista vastaava johtaja Seppo Kurki-Suonio muistuttaa. Hän nostaa esimerkeiksi etenkin sähkö- ja kaasuyhtiöt, päivittäistavarakaupat ja pankit. Saman alan yhtiöitä myös klusteroituu samoille alueille. Marinadista selviää myös, kuinka sijoittajan on syytä ottaa maantiede ja poliittiset riskit huomioon. Marinadi-osio: yhteistyössä S-Pankki Ville Voipion luentosarja (englanniksi): http://www.youtube.com/@prof.sustainablebusiness2193

Lightning struck wind turbines in the U.S. over 77,000 times in 2023 alone. Vaisala Xweather Insight experts detail how their advanced National Lightning Detection Network tracks each bold strike in real-time. Learn how wind farm operators tap into this data to optimize turbine safety and uptime during fierce storms. Visit their website: https://www.xweather.com/ and read the report! Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to the special edition of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall, along with my co host, Joel Saxum. Vaisala just published his 2023 lightning report, and if you haven't seen it yet, better get online and check it out. One of the key items in that report is 77, 000 lightning strikes occurred to wind turbines in the U. S. in 2023. So we thought it'd be a pretty good topic for a podcast because we've, Joel and I have seen a lot of lightning damage across the United States and 77, 000 lightning strikes is probably one of the reasons why. And if you're not familiar with Vaisala, Vaisala is XWeather System, which is where that data comes from is in advance, whether intelligence platform provides businesses and organizations with accurate real time. Weather insights and a lot of sites that we go to, Joel and I go visit, have the XWeather system. And that system integrates data from multiple sources into a sort of a unified view and analyzes current and historical trends and generates hyper local forecasts using artificial intelligence. And as part of that XWeather system is the National Lightning Detection Network, NLDN. And we're going to use that acronym throughout this podcast. The NLDN is a network of over a hundred ground based sensors across the U. S. that detects cloud to ground and cloud to cloud lightning strikes in real time. That system is operated by VISLA, and it uses sensors to pinpoint lightning strike locations, polarity, amplitude, and other key characteristics like specific energy. And that network provides critical lightning data for early warning systems, research, and weather sensitive operations like wind turbines. With a detection efficiency over 90 percent nationally, the NLDN sets the standard for accurate real time lightning detection and mapping. Our guest today, we have two of them, Martin Murphy, Senior Scientist at Vaisala. And Martin has a degree in meteorology from Penn State and a PhD in atmospheric science from the University of Arizona. And he has worked with Vaisala and its predecessors for over 27 years. One of his focuses is on analysis and validation of lightning detection systems, and he's a co author of two patents related to lightning detection. Martin, welcome to the program. Martin Murphy: Thanks Allen Hall: And Hans. Hans is the Vaisala product manager for Xweather, and we've had Hans on the podcast before, and we see Hans at all the trade shows across the United States. So Hans, welcome back to the show. Hans Loewenheath: Thank you. Thank you for having me. Allen Hall: So guys, I want to dive in first into the NLDN. And since Martin's here, I want to understand Or explain to everybody what the system is, because we travel around the United States quite extensively, and we meet with a lot of operators, and when we say, did you check the NLDN, the National Lightning Detection Network, they kind of go, what? What is this thing? Joel Saxum: You get these glass,

Fernando's areas of focus are new markets in urban mobility, environmental monitoring and climate change adaptation with a particular focus on future air mobility and aviation. In this episode, he talks more about Vaisala's work to-date when it comes to weather and environmental monitoring in aviation, and then how it can play a key role in the emerging Advanced Air Mobility market. Fernando talks about Vaisala's particular systems, which can benefit the aviation sector, and its aviation weather management solutions, configurable for any airport, geography and climate. As other weather factors for eVTOL aircraft include wind and extreme temperatures such as icing, Fernando discusses the key challenges these pose and key considerations companies need to look out for in order to be as efficient as possible.

In Allen's part of the USA, an escaped emu that was on the loose! We then discuss an investigation into a wind turbine collapse at the Akmene wind farm in Lithuania, which was caused by a malfunctioning sensor that provided incorrect data to the turbine controller. The root cause analysis took several months, and the wind farm was shut down until the issue was resolved. Shifting to policy news, the podcast analyzes the UK's latest CfD auction round which awarded 1.5GW of onshore wind capacity across 24 projects in Scotland and Wales. Offshore wind was absent from this round due to limited funding availability and inflation concerns. In the US, Equinor and BP are seeking to renegotiate offshore wind PPAs for their Empire Wind and Beacon Wind projects off Massachusetts unless they can achieve a 6-8% rate of return. On the technology front, we discuss a PES Wind Magazine article from Vaisala about how lidar systems can measure turbulence intensity to improve wind farm performance. Mounting lidar systems on turbine nacelles provides hub-height data to anticipate incoming wind conditions. To close, we cover news that EDF Renewables will repower Africa's oldest wind farm in Morocco, doubling its capacity to 100MW with new Siemens Gamesa turbines. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  PES Wind - www.peswind.comPardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: All right, Rosemary, in my neighborhood of Massachusetts, there was an escaped emu and it was on the loose for two weeks in the neighborhoods and they finally, they finally captured this thing. It was roaming around scaring local residents. And in fact, the, the local animal control officer said, Hey, be careful because emus are dangerous. But they did capture the emu. He would have been left behind by a former owner who moved out of state. And just left the emu behind and the new owners of the property were willing to help cooperate to kind of capture the emu. So the emu will have a new home with a local species expert and I assume that local species expert is in Australia. So you're getting another emu, Rosemary. Because Massachusetts is not the right place for those things. Rosemary Barnes: Oh, all right. That, that hurt, that hurt my ears as an Australian. Can we just clear one thing up? It's emu, emu. It's not an emu, it's an emu. You, you Americans, you know, like you don't get to take an Australian animal and give it your own, your own name. Just respect, respect the emu. Allen Hall: Well, you're getting a new friend in Australia. I'm going to send that emu right back. Enefit Green along with GE have been looking at an incident or accident that happened at the Akmene wind farm in Lithuania back in May. And they've been conducting a series of evaluations over the last couple of months, where they finally have come to a conclusion and, looked at the findings and determined that this wind turbine fell over and it's, it's about a, I think it's a five megawatt machine fill up in Lithuania. And there was 14 wind turbines total that the root cause analysis revealed that a malfunctioning sensor provided incorrect data to the turbine controller, resulting in excessive stress on the tower structure and the subsequent collapse of the turbine. So that sounds like, to me, everybody, a single point failure in some GE turbines, and they didn't turn it back on until, actually, this week, until they got it all figured out.

Lightning is a leading cause of death for wind turbine technicians. The risk of lightning strikes for wind turbine technicians is even greater during the summer months, when thunderstorms are more common. Allen discusses the lightning dangers with Vaisala lightning experts Hans Loewenheath, Product Manager for Xweather Lightning at Vaisala, and Ryan Said, Senior Scientist at Vaisala. The Vaisala Xweather system detects lightning in real-time and provides near instantaneous alerts to technicians in the area. These alerts allow technicians to get to safety before tragedy strikes. When thunder roars, go indoors! Vaisala Xweather - https://www.xweather.com/Vaisala Annual Lightning Report - https://www.xweather.com/annual-lightning-reportVaisala Interactive Lightning Map - https://interactive-lightning-map.vaisala.com/Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Vaisala (1) Allen Hall: I'm Allen Hall, host of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Our guests this week are Hans Loewenheath Product Manager for Xweather Lightning at Vaisala. And Ryan Said, Senior Scientist at Vaisala. If you're not familiar with Vaisala, Vaisala is a global company specializing in environmental and industrial measurement solutions. Founded in 1936 and headquartered in Finland. Vaisala has grown to become a leading provider of reliable and accurate instruments, systems, and services for a wide range of industries and applications. Ryan and Hans, welcome to the program.  Ryan Said: Thanks for having us. Hi. Happy to be here.  Allen Hall: Just reading some news stories this week unfortunately of people attending to a soccer field. I got hit by lightning and, and they were clearly out in, in a time when it wasn't raining, right? This is sort of the clearer lightning strike scenario. There's, there's thunder off in the distance, but they don't think twice about it. And next thing you know, you're in an ambulance going to a hospital and then, and the wind turbine technicians. I think the case is so much more risky because if you're up in a turbine or around turbines, turbines are lightning magnets for the most part. And you don't have a lot of advanced  Ryan Said: warning. That's right. Lightning is chaotic and unpredictable. There's really no safe place to be outside when there's a thunderstorm nearby. A lightning can even strike several miles from the thunderstorm core. There are general guidelines in place that reflect this unpredictable and unsafe environment. The National Lightning Safety Council has a motto when thunder roars go indoors and advise not to return outside for at least 30 minutes after lightning passes by. So for these reasons, it's really important to be aware of your environment and surroundings in particular. Be able to track thunderstorms in real time, right?  Allen Hall: What is a safe position? If you're, if you're around a wind turbine, where are you gonna go? Is the vehicle enough?  Ryan Said: Usually the safest place to be during a thunderstorm is in a modern building. The electrical wiring and plumbing. Serves as a Faraday cage, or it safely guides the electrical energy from a lightning flash that hits the building through these wires into the ground. Now, of course, you don't want to be touching any of these wires or, or plumbing during a thunderstorm. If you can't get to a modern building,

James Ariza es CEO de ANXOR. Anxor Ingeniería es representante de Megger en Nicaragua, distribuidor autorizado de equipos VAISALA y otras marcas reconocidas para el sector eléctrico. Conoce la historia completa de James Ariza en esta edición de Maestros del Escalamiento junto a Daniel Marcos.                                                  INFO FINAL  Conoce más de James Ariza en: LinkedIn   Conoce más de ANXOR en: LinkedIn Sitio Web   Conoce más de EO en: LinkedIn

Teppo Kuisma works at Vaisala Xweather and has a vast experience from established companies, tech startups and consultancies and has spent several years in Silicon Valley. Vaisala Xweather's global marketplace of precise environmental data is used to develop such things as autonomous driving and renewable energy production. Learn more! Have you already joined the Data Insiders community?

We are closing this cycle of Quality Sense with a very interesting guest... Maaret Pyhäjärvi, has more than 25 years of experience in software testing, and is constantly sharing her knowledge and helping others. She has experience organizing conferences around the world, meetups, and more. Maaret is currently working at Vaisala as a Principal Test Engineer. In today's episode, we talked about the challenges of organizing and attending conferences, and we dived into the topic of exploratory testing. How to define it, the challenges of building trust around exploratory testing, and more. So for the last time this year, get comfortable, grab a snack and enjoy!

Thunderstorms are common this time of year, so we're focusing on lightning in this week's episode. Present in every storm, it's a weather threat that sometimes gets overlooked. Chris Vagasky is a meteorologist and lightning applications manager at Vaisala, one of the leading weather instrumentation manufacturers worldwide, known throughout the weather industry for their lightning detection hardware and network. He joins the Lee Weather Team to explain the science and dangers of lightning, including wildfires. They also debunk some of the myths about lightning and discuss the best ways to stay safe. "When thunder roars, go indoors"...and listen to this electric episode! About the Across the Sky podcast The weekly weather podcast is hosted on a rotation by the Lee Weather team: Matt Holiner of Lee Enterprises' Midwest group in Chicago, Kirsten Lang of the Tulsa World in Oklahoma, Joe Martucci of the Press of Atlantic City, N.J., and Sean Sublette of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's National Lightning Safety Awareness Week! This week Dean DeVore welcomes Chris Vagasky, meteorologist and Solutions Manager for North America at Vaisala, Inc. back to the podcast to discuss all things lightning including safety tips and what outdoor activities make you most vulnerable to a lightning strike. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on 'Everything Under the Sun', Dean DeVore welcomes Chris Vagasky, meteorologist and Solutions Manager for North America at Vaisala, Inc. Chris joins the podcast to talk about his latest paper "One Strike, You're Out: Lightning during Professional Baseball Games" looks at the significant risk of a lightning-related incidents at Major League Baseball games. Then, Jonathan Webb, CEO and Founder of AppHarvest joins Dean to discuss using conventional agricultural techniques with cutting-edge technology to improve access for all to nutritious food, farming more sustainably, and building a home-grown food supply. AppHarvest is building some of the largest indoor farms in the world to grow non-GMO, chemical-free produce to be sold to the top 25 U.S. grocers.Plus a look at the forecast for the weekend and week beyond with AccuWeather Meteorologist, Brian Thompson. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. While a lot of words were said, it remains to be seen whether the political will exists to defend democracy. Will we keep anti-majoritarian rules like the filibuster in place? Will we continue to support a Senate that grants disproportionate power to white, rural states and districts? What will this year's elections bring?  COVID rages and it appears our institutions are pretty much throwing in the towel.  In a what-the-what news…lightning increased dramatically around the North Pole. According to CNN, “Vaisala, an environmental monitoring company that tracks lightning around the world, reported 7,278 lightning strokes occurred last year north of 80 degrees latitude, nearly twice as many as the previous nine years combined.” The Pennsylvania Farm Show is this weekend!  Don't want covid?  Do go.  It's that simple because masks and vaccination cards won't be required as Omicron is ripping the lands.  Doug Mastriano is launching his campaign for Governor tomorrow.  Get ready everybody. The Pennridge School District makes more moves to discriminate and whitewash history now that the extremists have full control of the board. The board ordered the removal of the book, Heather Has Two Mommies, due to its radical message that “it doesn't matter how many mommies or how many daddies your family has … the most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.” Check out Cyril's interview with the book's author, Lesléa Newman, in his latest column. And then there's moves to prevent critical discussion on the one-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. Teachers were sent a note instructing them to “not wade into” discussion of January 6. Instead, they should stick to “business as usual.” We should recall that Bucks County had more people attend the insurrection than any other county - and the Pennridge School Board president, Joan Cullen, was one of them.  Looks like the Executive Director of Upper Bucks County Technical School. Jeffrey Sweda, is being given the boot after the board overseeing the school's Joint Operating Committee charges him with “persistent negligence in the performance of his duties, willful neglect of duties, and/or willful failure to comply with school laws and directives.” The charges include buying a $999 log splitter for his personal use, stealing pavers from the school, cutting security cameras to the loading dock, abusing co-workers, and more. Station Eleven.

Guest: Chris VagaskyIntroduction: The joy that fills sports fans' hearts as they loudly sing, “Take me out to the ballgame…” is almost palpable, but one thing that may not come to their mind is the threat lightning poses. We've seen the images of lighting bolts racing across the sky as fans hunker down in their seats, and this reminds us how deadly this phenomenon can be. Meteorologist Chris Vagasky, who is the Lightning Applications Manager at Vaisala, has dug through the data and found some shocking statistics for some of the league's most popular stadiums. We'll break down who's most at risk for lighting and discuss how his research is being used to improve MLB's weather safety policies. Get your peanuts & join us for the discussion...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on "Everything Under the Sun", host Dean DeVore welcomes back AccuWeather Senior Long Range Forecaster Paul Pastelok to chat about the 2021 Summer Forecast and where we stand midway through July and a look ahead to Fall 2021. Then, we take a look back at some of our favorite interview segments over the last few months. First, we revisit our talk with Dr. Steven Cliff of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about preventing vehicular heat stroke. Then we speak with Chris Vagasky, meteorologist and lightning applications manager at Vaisala to discuss which state has overtaken the Sunshine State with more lightning bolts. Finally, we wrap up with a trip to the campground with Toby O'Rourke, CEO and President of Kampgrounds of America to learn about the rise and resurgence of camping in America. It's all this week on "Everything Under the Sun"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris Vagasky, Lightning Applications Manager at Vaisala, explains to Tonya Hall how lightning detection networks operate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For years, Florida has been known as the lightning capital of America. However, recently released data from Vaisala, indicates that there may be a new lightning capital. This week, Dean DeVore welcomes Chris Vagasky, meteorologist and lightning applications manager at Vaisala to discuss which state has overtaken the Sunshine State with more lightning bolts. Then, Rob Harper, Director, Retail Operations from Ziebart joins Dean to discuss how to protect your vehicle from Cicadas. The highly-acidic bugs could spell bad news for your car’s exterior. It's all this week on 'Everything Under the Sun'! Download the new AccuWeather app today, available now in the App Store on iOS and in the Google Play Store - https://accuweather.onelink.me/dZpv/49183895 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lundi 19 avril 2021, SMART TECH reçoit Louis de Gouyon Matignon (fondateur, Toucan Space) , Pierre Beyssac (cofondateur, Gandi / eu.org) , Margaux Didi (Analyste scientifique, Bioxegy) , Régis François (Sales manager, Vaisala) et Sylvain Duranton (fondateur et directeur monde, BCG Gamma)

Guest: Chris VagaskyIntroduction: The joy that fills sports fans' hearts as they loudly sing, “Take me out to the ballgame…” is almost palpable, but one thing that may not come to their mind is the threat lightning poses. We’ve seen the images of lighting bolts racing across the sky as fans hunker down in their seats, and this reminds us how deadly this phenomenon can be. Meteorologist Chris Vagasky, who is the Lightning Applications Manager at Vaisala, has dug through the data and found some shocking statistics for some of the league’s most popular stadiums. We’ll break down who’s most at risk for lighting and discuss how his research is being used to improve MLB’s weather safety policies. Get your peanuts & join us for the discussion...

We invited two experienced people from our customer Vaisala: Toni Lehtimäki and Kari Heikkilä to talk about the development, deployment and technology stack of their Design system. Eficode has also developed a design game that lets you map out your design and development process. It’s called Digital Product Building Toolkit, and you use it to improve your company’s capabilities for creating digital products and services. The game is open source under creative commons license, and you can download it from the Eficode website at: https://hubs.ly/H0JGgN10 -Design and build digital services sustainably: https://hubs.ly/H0JGdBC0 -Read success Design and UX stories from all industries: https://hubs.ly/H0JGdPJ0

Tuilevaoa'ana Taofua Rocky Pilitati is Samoan, born and raised in Wainuiomata.  He has ties to the villages of Saoluafata, Falevao and Vaisala in Samoa.   Tui is currently studying and is in his final year towards A Bachelor of Creative Media Production at the College of Creative ARts, Toi Rauwharangi Majoring in Film and TV.  He is a member of the Massey Association of Pasifika students,  Kafa Kollective and a member of the Pacific Islands screen artists. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the DevOps 2020 event, Eficode’s CTO Marko Klemetti talked about improving DevOps capabilities. In this talk, Marko referred to the “design system”, stating that “design system is the voice and identity of an organization, but also a set of styles that represent that organization.” In this episode, we discuss in more detail the connection between design systems and DevOps. According to Marko, organizations should “connect all of your DevOps practices and tools into the design system.” Useful references about the subject: -How does UXDX break down development / design / research barriers?: https://hubs.ly/H0yRwhb0 -Design system example on github: https://github.com/eficode/design-system-example -Vaisala’s new Design System:https://hubs.ly/H0yRwyd0 -DPB Toolkit: https://hubs.ly/H0yRzYG0 -Elisa style book: https://stylebook.elisa.fi/ -The Australian Government Design System: https://designsystem.gov.au/

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain #1 is a meteorologist and Sounding Solution Manager at Vaisala.  Chris Vagasky, welcome to WeatherBrains!  Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain #2 is also a meteorologist at Vaisala.  Ron Holle, welcome to the show!

Gwendalyn Bender, product manager for assessment services for Vaisala, discusses the range of services and products offered by the company in this Solar Speaks Live video, powered by Unirac, from the 2015 Solar Power International tradeshow. Bender also touches on the concept of accuracy in weather forecasts and how it impacts projects.

Site assessment is often discussed as an important step in planning any project, but what exactly do you need to look for? We spoke with Gwendalyn Bender of Vaisala to tell us more. She even touches on why developers of the notable Ivanpah solar project weren't as concerned as the media when the project didn't perform as hoped for its first summer. Listen to learn more.

In this bonus edition of Thinking Aloud from the 23rd ITS America Annual Meeting and Expo in Nashville, Tennessee, Paul Hutton talks to Bill Bronrott, deputy administrator of the US DOT's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and catches up with FLIR, Econolite, LightGuard, McCain, Vaisala, QVision and Jim Barbaresso from the organising committee of North America's next turn to host the ITS World Congress, Detroit 2014. Meanwhile Kevin Borras talks to Thinking Aloud sponsor Jupiter and with four of the main drivers in the Integrated Corridor Management project in both San Diego and Dallas. Thinking Aloud is brought to you by Inrix, Traffax, Jupiter and Econolite and is available to download or listen to now, and remember it can also be found in the iTunes store. And don't forget to register for Thinking Highways, the ITS sector's most innovative magazine, at http://thinkinghighways.com/registration/. Be sure to join us next week for more Thinking Aloud.

In the fourth and final daily podcast from the ITS World Congress in Vienna, Paul Hutton finds out what's worrying a man who's been to all 19 of the congresses, gets news from Traficon, IRF and Hodos Media, talks to Swarco, InnovITS snd Navtech Radar, while Kevin Borras really does give his two cents about an aspect of the congress's organisation and Sarah Hawkes investigates Vaisala. There's also AustriaTech's guide to Vienna and Kapsch pay tribute to a great event.