Internet of Things

Alex Cattle
1 April 2020

Steps to maximise robotics security with Ubuntu

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The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a popular open-source platform for advanced robotics. Its flexibility and ease-of-use make it well-suited to a wide array of robotics applications – however, these robots are not always sufficiently protected against security threats. Opportunistic attacks are by far the most...

Alex Cattle
1 April 2020

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
31 March 2020

Edge AI in a 5G world – part 1: How ‘smart cell towers’ will change our lives

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This is part of a blog series on the impact that 5G and GPUs at the edge will have on the roll out of new AI solutions. You can read the other posts here. Series overview In part 1 we will talk about the industrial applications and benefits that 5G and fast compute at the

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
31 March 2020

Alex Cattle
31 March 2020

Rigado cuts customers’ time-to-market with Ubuntu Core and AWS

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In the fast-paced world of IoT, being able to reduce time-to-market is a priority. Rigado’s core mission is to provide scalable and secure infrastructure for their customers’ commercial IoT deployments. It became clear to Rigado that, to achieve the ease of use it was looking for, it needed to redesign its gateway...

Alex Cattle
31 March 2020

Alex Cattle
26 March 2020

How Domotz streamlined provisioning of IoT devices

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As the number of IoT devices scale, the challenges of provisioning and keeping them up to date in the field increases. Domotz, who manufacture an all-in-one, network monitoring and management device for enterprise IoT networks, found themselves with this challenge that was further compounded by their rapid software...

Alex Cattle
26 March 2020

Rhys Davies
24 March 2020

Building a Raspberry Pi cluster with MicroK8s

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The tutorial for building a Raspberry Pi cluster with MicroK8s is here. This blog is not a tutorial. This blog aims to answer; why? Why would you build a Raspberry Pi cluster with MicroK8s? Here we go a little deeper to understand the hype around Kubernetes, the uses of cluster computing and the capabilities of

Rhys Davies
24 March 2020

nilayshrugged
24 March 2020

How to launch IoT devices – Part 4: When to ask for help

Article Internet of Things

(This blog post is part of a 5 part series, titled “How to launch IoT devices”. It will cover the key choices and concerns when turning bright IoT ideas into a product in the market. Sign up to the webinar on how to launch IoT devices to get the full story, all in one place.)

nilayshrugged
24 March 2020

Galem KAYO
16 March 2020

Turning your Raspberry Pi 4 into an edge gateway – Part 2

Article Internet of Things

In the first part of this tutorial, we installed and configured EdgeX foundry on a Raspberry Pi 4, turning it into an edge gateway. In this tutorial, the gateway will be connected to dummy IoT devices. These dummy devices will be virtually simulated by software. They will send messages transmitting random measurements...

Galem KAYO
16 March 2020

Rhys Davies
13 March 2020

How to install Ubuntu with the new Raspberry Pi Imager

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The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently released their new “Raspberry Pi Imager” and we love it. It’s a new tool that makes getting going with the Raspberry Pi easier than ever. All it takes is a simple install and three clicks before you have an SDcard ready for Pi. In this article, I’m going to talk

Rhys Davies
13 March 2020

Ted Kern
6 March 2020

ROS Development with LXD

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Linux containers allow for easy isolation of developer environments. If you’re often working with a bunch of different ROS versions, it’s a lot easier to do your work entirely in containers. Getting Started You’ll first need to install LXD using snap. Note Throughout this guide I will be using the hostname to...

Ted Kern
6 March 2020

ROS 2 CI with GitHub Actions

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The ROS 2 Tooling Working Group (chaired by AWS RoboMaker) has been hard at work producing a neat set of GitHub Actions for building and testing ROS packages on a variety of different systems. They work great on Ubuntu targets and preliminary support is already present for MacOS and Windows, making them a great option

Ted Kern
6 March 2020

Rhys Davies
6 March 2020

The State of Robotics – February 2020

Article Internet of Things

In 2020 we are already seeing the world of robotics hit the ground running. So far this year new and exciting things have been cropping up in every industry. The mainstream media pick up ROS stories and big-name robotics companies are no longer just on the factory floors. Here we talk about MoveIt for ROS

Rhys Davies
6 March 2020

alfonsosanchezbeato
3 March 2020

Creating real-time ready systems with ACRN and Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

Sometimes you really need a deterministic response time in your system. For example, a robotic arm that needs to be at the right place at exactly the right time, and you cannot avoid the need for a hard real-time (RT) operating system. But, that is only a small part of your software, and for the

alfonsosanchezbeato
3 March 2020

nilayshrugged
3 March 2020

How to launch IoT devices – Part 3: make vs buy decisions

Article Internet of Things

(This blog post is part of a 5 part series, titled “How to launch IoT devices”. It will cover the key choices and concerns when turning bright IoT ideas into a product in the market. This entire series can be found with slides + audio here: How to launch IoT devices.) Part One can be

nilayshrugged
3 March 2020

cmoullec
27 February 2020

How Domotz streamlined provisioning of IoT devices

Article Internet of Things

Learn how Ubuntu Core and snaps gives Domotz a competitive advantage As the number of IoT devices scale, the challenges of provisioning and keeping them up to date in the field increases. Domotz, who manufacture an all-in-one, network monitoring and management device for enterprise IoT networks, found themselves with...

cmoullec
27 February 2020

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All you need to know about building and managing IoT and embedded devices using Ubuntu.