Maarten Ectors

48 posts

VP IoT, NG Networking & Proximity Cloud

Maarten Ectors is responsible at Canonical for Internet of Things, the next-generation of networking and cloud solutions that are in proximity of the user or at the edges of the network. Previously he was strategy director for cloud, big data and IoT. Maarten reports to Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical.

Maarten Ectors
26 April 2016

Flying mobile base stations are coming to the UK

Article Internet of Things

EE, the largest mobile operator in the UK and now part of BT, just announced a collaboration with Lime Micro, a leader in the next big phase of open source mobile network technology, and Canonical (Ubuntu) to ensure the UK gets better mobile coverage. EE is heavily investing in getting to 95% geographical 4G coverage

Maarten Ectors
26 April 2016

Maarten Ectors
7 April 2016

When a projector and app-enabled software-defined radio cross paths

Article Internet of Things

We had a chat with our head of IoT, Maarten, to discover what happens when a projector crosses paths with an app-enabled software-defined radio (limeSDR.org) Below is a list of pretty cool insights when the two cross paths that include talking to drones via hand gestures, hacking into walkie talkies and finding coverage...

Maarten Ectors
7 April 2016

Maarten Ectors
23 February 2016

The Internet of Scary Things – #IoScaryT

Article Ubuntu

Your broadband modem is likely vulnerable to critical security bugs that allow hackers to remotely control it and you are at their mercy because your telecom operator is not going to do anything about it. Imagine a connected world with billions of things that are insecure. What should you do? Last Thursday a critical GNU

Maarten Ectors
23 February 2016

Maarten Ectors
20 January 2016

NFV does not equal Hypervisor

Article Cloud and server

Summary: This blog post will explain why network equipment providers are incorrectly investing in hypervisors to provide network function virtualisation and why Intel bought Altera. The answer is networking. Until recently switches, routers, DSLAMs, mobile base stations, etc. were all using special purpose hardware...

Maarten Ectors
20 January 2016

Maarten Ectors
20 November 2015

The Top 5 Telecom Problems can be Solved

Article Cloud and server

This year’s TAD Summit was a success but it was another sign that telecom operators are more likely to follow Kodak than become the next Google. The future of telecom will look very red, blood red, not Vodafone red, unless telcos start really upping their game. The future looks bad because telecoms have reached their

Maarten Ectors
20 November 2015

Maarten Ectors
11 November 2015

Canonical Demos the power of IoT to developers with the Samsung ARTIK

Article Internet of Things

Canonical and Samsung will be at this year’s ARM TechCon to show off the power of snappy Ubuntu Core on the Samsung ARTIK 5 and ARTIK 10 modules. The companies will demonstrate how combining Samsung ARTIK and snappy Ubuntu Core results in an easy-to-use development platform for internet-connected devices, enabling...

Maarten Ectors
11 November 2015

Maarten Ectors
30 October 2015

#InternetOfToys – let the toy battles begin

Article Internet of Things

Wouldn’t it be great to play with toys and get paid for it? If this sounds like music to your ears, then this blog post is for you. If you are a business person who thinks toys are just child’s play, then you should read on as well! It’s true that Industrial IoT will generate

Maarten Ectors
30 October 2015

Maarten Ectors
16 October 2015

PiGlow API: one small snap for humanity…

Article Internet of Things

Victor Palau created a very nice blog post around the PiGlow. With his permission we are reproducing it here. My first steps into snappifying, I have publish a RestApi for PiGlow (glowapi 0.1.2). I though it might be a good first step and mildly useful for people wanting to set up build notifications, twitter mentions,

Maarten Ectors
16 October 2015

Maarten Ectors
2 October 2015

Canonical launches new ‘#InternetOfToys’ initiative with partners

Article Internet of Things

IoT World: Hybrid, Erle and Canonical combine to commercialize IoT dev ROSCon: Canonical demonstrates power of apps on robots; shows Erle Spider Mark Shuttleworth keynote at ROSCon: secrets to ROS success Canonical is taking its Internet of Things (IoT) innovation on tour over the few days; bringing a host of new...

Maarten Ectors
2 October 2015

Maarten Ectors
22 September 2015

Crowdsourcing the #AppEnabledHome: GE, FirstBuild and Canonical

Article Internet of Things

IoT is changing the home. Soon you will have apps and app stores on any type of home appliance. Earlier this year, GE’s FirstBuild brought to market the first app-enabled fridge. However, before IoT in the home can be mass market some problems will have to be solved first. What apps will people want?

Maarten Ectors
22 September 2015

Maarten Ectors
16 September 2015

The future of access networks

Article Cloud and server

IoT, Docker, Big Data, Cloud, mobile apps, Video on Demand, etc. It seems like innovation is accelerating but without a roadmap, business plan or strategy. Google and co. seem to have their eye set on taking over the telecom business. Google’s global fiber network, SDN, Fiber, Fi, OnHub, Android, Hangout, Brillo, White...

Maarten Ectors
16 September 2015

Maarten Ectors
9 September 2015

Pi-Cubes – App-Enabled HVAC Control

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by the Cube-Controls team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using Ubuntu technology. Pi-Cubes has been designed to provide makers and hobbyist with a modular automation system that supports up to 24 I/Os and four thermostats. It is

Maarten Ectors
9 September 2015

Maarten Ectors
8 September 2015

The App-Enabled Spider

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by the Erle-Robotics team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using Ubuntu technology. Erle-Spider as the first legged drone powered by ROS and running snappy Ubuntu Core. This smart robot with a 900 MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor

Maarten Ectors
8 September 2015

Maarten Ectors
14 August 2015

Meet Mycroft: Open Source Artificial Intelligence Powered by Snappy

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by the Mycroft team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using Ubuntu technology. If you work in technology you’ve probably had this dream. You wake up and your whole house is a computer, a starship in cyberspace that

Maarten Ectors
14 August 2015