Presenting Kuopio Health members: Metinor AS
Metinor – Making critical environment monitoring simpler, smarter, and more reliable
Metinor AS specializes in delivering innovative cloud solutions enhanced by IoT sensors. The company’s solutions empower businesses with advanced visualization tools, real-time reporting, and comprehensive incident management. Metinor streamlines inspections and audits and facilitates preventive maintenance, ensuring operational efficiency and safety. Serving a wide range of industries, the company offers solutions tailored to each sector and provides the technology that powers data-driven decisions.
Metinor’s solutions cover a wide range of monitoring needs, including temperature control, water leak detection, CO₂ and humidity levels, access activity, and desk occupancy. These real-time insights help maintain optimal conditions, enhance safety, and improve the efficient use of space and resources.
Intelligent monitoring solutions for modern business environments
When Norway-based technology company Metinor AS set out to transform environmental monitoring in laboratories, healthcare facilities, and the life science sector, their starting point was straightforward: critical monitoring should be far easier than it currently is. Their solution combines wireless IoT sensors with a cloud platform that gives organizations real-time visibility into temperature, humidity, pressure differentials, and other essential parameters, without complicated installations or heavy maintenance.
“Our mission is to make monitoring more dependable and simpler. We want to reduce the time teams spend managing systems so they can focus on patient care, research, and operational priorities, not software”, explains Marius Jacobsen, VP Business Development at Metinor.
Metinor focuses particularly on laboratories, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and healthcare environments where strict regulatory requirements demand accurate, continuous data. Metinor’s customers range from small research labs with only a few sensors to global pharmaceutical companies with thousands of monitoring points.
“These industries depend on reliable information at all times. High-quality data isn’t a nice-to-have – it’s essential for safety, compliance, and daily decision-making. One of Metinor’s biggest differentiators is ease of use. The company’s sensors require no configuration and connect instantly via 4G, with battery life lasting up to 15 years. Another differentiating factor is that our platform combines monitoring across labs, facilities, transportation, and temporary setups, which reduces the need for multiple tools. This also gives teams a single operational picture, like a 360-degree view of everything in one place. Clients tell us this is the simplest monitoring system they’ve ever used. You place the sensors where you need them, and they’re online and logging immediately”, Jacobsen continues.
Sensors can be added locally, or they can be sent to other sites within the same geographic area or across borders. Customers always have everything visible locally, and installing new sensors and scaling them at additional sites is just a matter of placing the sensors where they need to be. Jacobsen confirms that the company already has users in Finland.
“Finland has always been open to new technology. That openness was one reason we became interested in partnerships here.”
Simple and secure technology
Despite its simplicity, the platform is engineered to meet demanding security and regulatory standards. Metinor supports compliance with regulations such as 21 CFR Part 11 and maintains full traceability of all sensor data and user actions.
“We never roll out anything until it’s validated. Strong security and compliance shouldn’t create unnecessary complexity for users. We use encrypted communication and very controlled access, so all our data is hosted and protected in a cloud environment where there is full traceability of all activity, and for regulated customers like pharmaceutical manufacturers and laboratories, we support GMP-oriented workflows”, Jacobsen emphasizes.
“While technology itself is designed to be seamless, the actual challenges often lie elsewhere. The biggest hurdle isn’t the installation; it’s helping teams move from old manual routines to a more proactive way of working. With real-time alerts and trend analyses, customers can shift from reacting to issues to preventing them. If you see a freezer starting to behave differently, you can service it before there’s a failure. That’s the kind of insight our clients rely on.”
According to Jacobsen, data increasingly supports organizations’ sustainability efforts. By analyzing environmental parameters such as temperature and humidity, clients can identify areas where energy is being overused or where adjustments could improve efficiency. As pressure grows for organizations to reduce their carbon footprint and meet sustainability targets—sometimes under the risk of fines—the insights provided by the system help them make better decisions and strengthen their sustainability initiatives.
”Another key priority is ensuring that clients remain compliant and audit-ready at all times. The system provides full traceability of both sensor-detected issues and all user actions, with information that is easy to search and analyze, even for events that occurred many years ago. During audits, clients can quickly locate and present any relevant data: Here is my platform—what do you need to see? Here it is”, Jacobsen continues.
Main focus in Europe and North America
Metinor’s current focus is on Europe and North America, where the company sees the strongest response to its system. Looking ahead, Jacobsen expects the company to expand toward more comprehensive and intelligent facility solutions. Artificial intelligence will be integrated where it provides meaningful value, improving analytics and simplifying workflows. To use AI effectively, one must understand its fundamentals, its capabilities, and when its application is truly rational.
“I think that IoT and cloud-based solutions will increasingly become part of everyday operations. You can almost compare it to the transition toward centralized electronic health record systems in hospitals. Expectations will shift toward continuous, high-quality insights becoming a basic requirement for compliance, planning, and maintenance. This won’t be seen as something new and exciting, but rather as the new standard in the way we work.”
Jacobsen says that Metinor intends to be at the forefront of this technology and sees the company as having both a role and a responsibility in helping organizations modernize their processes—enabling them to spend more time improving operations rather than reacting to issues.
Kuopio Health plays a key role in the Finnish innovation landscape
The company first learned about Kuopio Health at the Lab Quality Days event in Helsinki. The team was surprised in a very positive way to discover how innovative the region is.
“We already knew that Finland has openness to new approaches, and Kuopio Health’s collaborative and international mindset aligned perfectly with us. Even from the beginning, we saw clear value in joining. We’re looking to have great conversations, pilot opportunities, knowledge exchange, particularly around kinds of operational efficiency, safety, quality, and innovation, really just to be a part of an ecosystem where a lot of the people that we want to engage with are also present and focusing on the same things”, Jacobsen points out.
Looking ahead, Metinor’s long-term vision is to become the leading platform for unified monitoring—an all-in-one space where clients can access every piece of critical facility data and insight, from freezer monitoring to incident management and beyond. Achieving this requires deep domain expertise, which is essential not only for building the right solutions but for understanding clients’ real-world challenges. Metinor’s team reflects this need: backgrounds span medical devices, clinical research, biomedical engineering, and decades of experience in GMP laboratories. While the company also supports the oil and gas sector, its core focus remains life sciences. As Metinor grows, it prioritizes talent that blends technological and scientific expertise—people who can bridge both worlds and translate practical needs into effective innovations.