Blog posts tagged
"IoT"

330 posts


Guest
17 April 2017

Industrial IoT: manage and control remote assets

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by Florian Hoenigschmid, Director of azeti. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com When you make a phone call, watch TV or wash your hands, you probably won’t associate this with terms like predictive maintenance, equipment damage, downtime or...

Guest
17 April 2017


Kyle Fazzari
13 April 2017

ROS production: our prototype [2/5]

Article Internet of Things

This is the second blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we discussed why Ubuntu Core was a good fit for production robotics. In this post we’ll be on classic Ubuntu, creating the example ROS prototype that we’ll use throughout the rest of the series as we work toward using

Kyle Fazzari
13 April 2017


Thibaut Rouffineau
27 March 2017

Putting Ubuntu in embedded

Article Internet of Things

This year Canonical joined Embedded World 2017 for the first time with a booth. And the initial reaction from anyone visiting the booth was one of surprise quickly followed by the question: ‘Ubuntu is what I run on my desktop, not on my embedded systems. Why is Ubuntu at an embedded show?’ First of all

Thibaut Rouffineau
27 March 2017


Kyle Fazzari
22 March 2017

Distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps

Article Internet of Things

One of the key tenets of snaps is that they bundle their dependencies. The fact that they’re self-contained helps their transactional-ness: upgrading or rolling back is essentially just a matter of unmounting one snap and mounting the other. However, historically this was also one of their key downsides: every snap must...

Kyle Fazzari
22 March 2017


Thibaut Rouffineau
20 March 2017

Three flaws at the heart of IoT security

Article Internet of Things

This blog has been syndicated from SCMagazine UK, contributed by Thibaut Rouffineau – head of devices marketing. According to the latest estimates by Gartner, the total number of connected devices will reach 6.4 billion by the end of this year. From connected homes, to autonomous vehicles, to futuristic smartdust, the...

Thibaut Rouffineau
20 March 2017


Canonical
14 March 2017

NXP and Canonical to demo Ubuntu Core on the LS1043A at Embedded World

News Internet of Things

The LS1043A, NXP’s quad-core ARM 64bit-powered SoC, is built for embedded networking and IoT Gateways with high throughput needs. Ubuntu Core is a versatile operating system for IoT and networking equipment based on snaps, the cross-platform Linux package format. Device manufacturers can use snaps and branded stores to...

Canonical
14 March 2017


Maarten Ectors
13 March 2017

This elevator catches intruders, saves lives, generates money, …

Article Internet of Things

The world is becoming software defined and most people don’t realise what this means until software apps and app stores invade their day to day objects like elevators. This blog post is about the smartest elevator demoed at MWC17 and the future of elevators with app stores. What happens if we add artificial intelligence to

Maarten Ectors
13 March 2017


Maarten Ectors
9 March 2017

The $1M/month revenue generating fountain each smart city should have

Article Internet of Things

What if smart cities can have fountains generating revenue instead of costing money? App Stores on Fountains, one of the many crazy ideas we demoed on MWC, that can come true shortly… Say IoT and lots of people will bring up Smart Cities. Ask them what is so exciting about Smart Cities and they will

Maarten Ectors
9 March 2017


Canonical
2 March 2017

Mobile World Congress 2017: day four recap

Article Cloud and server

Today was the final day for Mobile World Congress 2017.  It has been a long, hectic, but exciting week. For starters, we had a record number of visitors to Canonical’s Ubuntu booth. The mixture was consumer targeting businesses looking for device updates, IoT advances, and innovation around artificial intelligence (AI)...

Canonical
2 March 2017


Maarten Ectors
23 February 2017

MWC17: The future of industrial IoT

Article Internet of Things

The internet of things, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, big data, robots/drones, blockchain, industry 4.0 and other hype terms are popping up everywhere. Our partners will be showcasing real industrial solutions that go far beyond the hype and are based on these cutting edge technologies. How to tell...

Maarten Ectors
23 February 2017


Canonical
22 February 2017

Screenly announces a follow-up to its popular digital signage solution

Article Internet of Things

Screenly’s platform has grown to run over 10,000 screens in less than four years Making it the largest commercial deployment of Raspberry Pi for digital signage Enables rich content in-store screens to be flexible media platform Screenly 2 has been rebuilt from scratch with Ubuntu Core to bring more and easier to use...

Canonical
22 February 2017


Amrisha Prashar
21 February 2017

Webinar: Qt on Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

Are you interested in developing Qt on Ubuntu Core? Learning how to package Qt apps as snaps? And the solutions they bring to the world of Digital Signage? If so, join us for a webinar. You will learn the following: Introduction to Ubuntu and Qt in digital signage Why use Qt for digital signage Packaging

Amrisha Prashar
21 February 2017


Canonical
20 February 2017

IOTA: IoT revolutionised with a ledger

Article Internet of Things

Ever since the introduction of digital money, the world quickly came to realize how dire and expensive the consequences of centralized systems are. Not only are these systems incredibly expensive to maintain, they are also “single points of failures” which expose a large number of users to unexpected service...

Canonical
20 February 2017


Amrisha Prashar
13 February 2017

Eclipse foundation: IoT developer survey

Article Internet of Things

The third annual IoT Developer Survey, hosted by Eclipse IoT has just been launched. In previous years it has provided interesting insights about how developers are building IoT solutions, for example – did you know that 73% of people use Linux to develop their IoT projects? – Canonical is pleased to support this...

Amrisha Prashar
13 February 2017