1. Vaisalan tarina Kjell Forsén, toimitusjohtaja Tieteen Vaikuttavuus seminaari 11.3 2010

2. Page 2 / March 2010 / ©Vaisala Environmental phenomena

3. Page 3 / March 2010 / ©Vaisala The customer need

4. Page 4 / March 2010 / ©Vaisala Vilho Väisälä  The founder of the Vaisala Group Dr. Vilho Väisälä 1889 - 1969  Practicing meteorologist and Professor of meteorology  Scientist – innovator with application understanding  Received university degree and doctorate in mathematics  Produced over one hundred scientific papers and ten patented inventions

5. Page 5 / March 2010 / ©Vaisala State of the art in the late 1920s  How to measure the upper atmosphere?  Manned hot air balloons  Kites and balloons  Self recording instruments retrieved Images courtesy of NOAA

6. Page 6 / March 2010 / ©Vaisala Disruption in 1936 use of radio – RS11 radiosonde  First delivery was to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Gold Medal at 1937 World Fair, Paris.  Company Mittari Oy established in the basement of Professor Vilho Väisälä's apartment building.

7. Page 7 / March 2010 / ©Vaisala Vaisala’s value creation has come from innovations for environmental observations Vaisala innovation Automatic weather station Accelera- tion (VTI) Pressure CO2 Industrial measurements Upper air soundings Surface weather observations Applications Vaisala technology evolution Microelectronics 1979 Microsensors 1995 Optical sensing GPS 2004 xx xxx RS92 Integrated weather station Sensor integration 1936 1973 Radio 1976 Thinfilm First mover 200x 1984 Relative humidity measurement Upper air sounding RS80 New technology enablers 201x Dual pol. WR

8. Page 8 / March 2010 / ©Vaisala Values  Customer focus – focus on what matters to the customer  Science based innovation – systematic approach, good theoretical knowledge, creativity, quality  Goal orientation – setting and committing to ambitious goals  Personal growth – possibility to learn and grow up to personal limits  Focus on greater good – emphasis on group benefit and mutual cooperation  Fair play – honesty, confidence, integrity

9. Page 9 / March 2010 / ©Vaisala Research and development  Research and development activities are a key prerequisite for the success of the Vaisala Group.  Strategic Research also in-house  R&D expenditure in 2009 increased to 12.4% of net sales  In addition to internal research activities Vaisala – partners with leading research organization – supports meteorological programs and studies – supports student research internships and fellowships

10. Page 10 / March 2010 / ©Vaisala R & D Partnerships  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  Vaisala and NOAA have a long-standing cooperative research and development program for transferring and enhancing wind profiler technology and applications  Wind profiler R&D  National Center for Atmospheric Research NCAR  COSMIC program – a new satellite program to measure atmospheric profiles  Dropsonde R&D  University of Oklahoma  designing and implementing improved mesoscale observing and forecasting systems  University of Arizona  Lightning Detection R&D  University of Colorado  Weather Radar algorithms and SW  Helsingin Yliopisto, Stanford, MIT, University of Hawaii etc.

11. Page 11 / March 2010 / ©Vaisala KIITOS