Skandal Technologies is the developer of POET. We are a software and solution integration services company with a multi-disciplinary team of designers, engineers, and operations specialists united by our experience in delivering narrative environments and using new technology to shape human experience. Registered in Helsinki, Finland with operational base in Madrid, Spain, we provide technology and services to clients worldwide.
Skandal has received R&D support from Business Finland and funding from Mundi Ventures.





TAPIO ROSENIUS


CEO


Award-winning Finnish designer and innovator. He is a pioneer in the use of biomimetic and responsive lighting control in built environment.

contact: tapio@skandal.tech

ANDREW BEDDARD



COO



Strategist and consultant with a background spanning government, industry, and new technology. Co-founded Crowd Vision, now a leader in smart infrastructure.



MIGUEL JOSE ALVAREZ



CTO



20+ years of experience on software development, specialised on audio and video processing. Track record of innovation and industry success.



CARMEN MORENO



CFO



Executive with 20+ years’ success driving financial strategies to stimulate business growth on an international scale for start-ups and established corporations.



HISTORY



The POET system development started from a two year research program into topic of Ambient Communication and the role of “nearables” in the hyperconnected society.





In the late 2016 Skandal Technologies joined a Finnish research consortium on a project titled "Towards Digital Paradise” a continuation of “The Naked Approach” research. The focus was in the possibilities of digitalisation and Internet of Things to improve human capabilities and create a more resource smart world. The project studied and developed solutions for dynamic, interactive, connected surfaces - i.e. “nearables” and localised communication and service platforms.


The project was supported by Business Finland and Partners included VTT, Skandal Technologies, Nokia, Streamr, Nextfloor, Barrabes Napapiiri Hub, Premix, Lapland University, Technical University of Tampere, Oulu University, Aalto University and Demos Helsinki.











“The new means of ambient communication let us feel intuitively what’s happening in the digital domain, with no need to constantly check the gadgets we wear and carry. This is the idea of “Nearables”: make us the active subjects of our life and of the hyperconnected world.”


- Vesa Pentikäinen VTT, The Nordic Digital Promise - Four Thesis on Hyperconnected Society



AMBIENT COMMUNICATION IS WHERE THE INTERNET OF THINGS MEETS THE EXPERIENCE ECONOMY.





It is led by site owners, developers, operators and designers willing to create narrative environments, experiential branding, and non-invasive techniques to influence crowd behaviour. It is a hybrid form of spatial interaction that is simultaneously digital and physical, made possible with technology and concepts rooted in human biology, psychology and behavioural science.



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