Abstract: A method of providing a snow storage with heat-insulation, the method including covering a snow pile made at a snow storage site with heat-insulating materials of which at least some are insulation boards. In the method, the insulation of the snow pile is carried out by using insulation board mats which include several insulation boards, or insulation board groups consisting of several insulation boards attached against each other, side by side and/or one after another, and which are pivotably joined together, alternately at the upper corners and the lower corners of their opposite transversal end edges, the resulting continuous insulation board mat composed of several insulation boards one after another being foldable into an accordion-like insulation board bundle and re-openable into a continuous insulation board mat. The invention also relates to equipment for providing a snow storage with heat-insulation.

Abstract: A method for handling insulating materials used for storing snow, wherein the insulating materials covering a heap of snow stored through the summer are taken off the heap of snow before the snow in the heap of snow is transferred to a selected use. In the method, the insulating materials used for covering the heap of snow stored through the summer are transferred to such another use, in which the insulating materials have at least one function other than mere storage of the insulating materials.

Abstract: A method for handling insulating materials used for storing snow, wherein the insulating materials covering a heap of snow stored through the summer are taken off the heap of snow before the snow in the heap of snow is transferred to a selected use. In the method, the insulating materials used for covering the heap of snow stored through the summer are transferred to such another use, in which the insulating materials have at least one function other than mere storage of the insulating materials.

Abstract: A storage system (500) comprises a storage unit (100), wherein said storage unit (100) has sites (S1a, S1b) for accommodating two or more of said objects (G1), said storage unit (100) further comprising one or more capacitive proximity sensors (50) arranged to detect the presence of said objects (G1) in the vicinity of said sites (S1a, S1b). The storage unit may be e.g. a shelving in a retail store. The filling ratio (N/Nmax) or the number (N) of objects on the shelves (90) may be monitored in real time. Consequently, out-of-shelf situations may be effectively avoided.

Abstract: A sensor (100) for capacitively detecting presence of conductive objects (BOD1) comprises a first signal electrode (10a), a second signal electrode (10b), and a base electrode structure (20), wherein the distance (s3) between said first signal electrode (10a) and said second signal electrode (10b) is smaller than or equal to 0.2 times the width (s1) of said first signal electrode (10a), and wherein at least a part of said base electrode structure (20) is between said first signal electrode (10a) and said second signal electrode (10).

Abstract: A broadband cellular network device comprises a base station controller unit (1), an asynchrouous transfer mode controller (2) adapted to control the distribution of cellular traffic consisting of asynchrouous transfer mode cells in trunking mobile communication networks based on ATM technology, and an asynchrouous transfer mode switching means (3) controlled by said asynchrouous transfer mode controller (2). The base station controller unit (1), the asynchrouous transfer mode controller (2) and the asynchrouous transfer mode switching means (3) form an ATM based base station controller (BSC) capable of performing ATM switching and adapted to replace PCM based base station controllers in base station subsystems (BSS) of asynchrouous transfer mode based cellular networks.