The lives of millions of people all around the world are touched daily by the work Vaisala does and the technologies that they create. Vaisala products and services provide our customers with the means to influence and better understand their environment. Curiosity, the desire to meet challenges and an extraordinary ability to innovate are Vaisala's core, both past and present.

Vaisala's origins date back to the 1930s when Professor Vilho Väisälä, Vaisala's founder and long-time managing director, invented some of the operating principles of a radiosonde. The company was established in 1936 in Finland, and the first radiosondes were manufactured in the basement of a residential building in the center of Helsinki. From a modest start, the company evolved to become a world leader in many measurement fields.