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Summer 2025 | Niemi Palvelut Oy - Occupational safety for tailboard work with 360-degree images

Together with Niemi Palvelut Oy, we carried out a pilot in which we used 360-degree images to create a lightweight digital twin of the tailboard of a truck and its working environment. The aim of the simulation was to support Niemi's orientation and thus reduce accidents related to tailboard work.

Read more about the orientation concept:
Virtual Start

Autumn 2024 - Spring 2025 | Simulation training package together with OSAO's Digikyvykäs Kampus (Digitally capable campus) project. We were able to implement a very unique and extensive simulation training package by Finnish standards. A similar simulation training package that cuts across the entire organization has not previously been implemented at any level of education in Finland.

The training includes both joint training days for members of the entire OSAO organization as well as sector-specific sparring workshops.
Digikyvykäs campus project, OSAO

2024 Autumn | 360-degree simulation learning environment for a kindergarten bus Simulation Wizard helped implement a mobile kindergarten in Ukraine - Traumatic conditions require a safe space.

he project was built in cooperation with 30 Finnish companies, and the Ministry of the Interior of Finland, the Ukrainian Board of Education, the Ukrainian Institute of Education Development (UIED) and the Association of Innovate and Digital Education (AIDE) also participated in the project. The bus began its journey towards Kherson on September 16 to carry out its important mission, the core of which is supporting teachers and providing psychosocial assistance to Ukrainian children and families.

"We are incredibly proud to be part of this project," says Anssi Salmi, founder of Simulation Wizard.

"We contributed strong simulation expertise to the project in the form of 360-degree photography. The bus was made into a digital twin by photographing the car from both the inside and outside. The images can be used to enable, among other things, remote training of personnel," Salmi concludes.

2016 May | At a dinner in Smolna, invited by the sitting Minister of Education.

I was honored to represent Vantaa Varia and the SME region at the invitation of the then Minister of Education, Sanni Grahn-Laasonen, at the Government's banquet hall in Smolna in May 2016. At the time, a reform of vocational education was underway, and the Minister of Education wanted to hear the opinions of Finland's best development teachers as a basis for implementing the reform. In total, there were about 25 development teachers from all over Finland at the event.

2015 - 2017 | Virtual Virtuosos project, Vantaa Vocational College Varia, Vantaa

I worked as a project manager for the Virtual Virtuosos project at Varia in Vantaa. Several schools around Finland participated in the project. The aim of the project was to inspire students to the world of digitalization and to do development work on various virtual environments and applications.
You can learn more about the project here.

Since 2013 | Developing simulator training, Vantaa Vocational College, Vantaa

When I became a teacher at Varia in Vantaa in the fall of 2013, there was not a single simulator in the logistics department. I quickly got busy and the first wheel loader simulator manufactured by MeVea arrived at the end of December of that year. By spring and winter 2019, the number of simulators had increased to eight and will certainly continue to increase in the future. In addition to developing simulators, we have also experimented with virtual glasses technology, 360-degree photography and other smaller digital technology applications.
You can learn more about Varia simulators here.
Here you can read an article from Vantaan Sanomat regarding the development and use of simulators.

2011 - 2013 | Procurement of a combined vehicle simulator, Tredu, Tampere

I worked as a project manager for a combined vehicle simulator project while working at Tredu in Tampere. The project budget was approximately 1.0 million euros, of which the simulator accounted for approximately half. The simulator arrived at Tredu in early 2013 and has been operating flawlessly in Tredu's logistics unit in Hervanta, Tampere ever since.
A similar truck simulator from the POVERI project. Photographed before the acquisition of the Tampere simulator.