Internet of Things

Canonical
11 April 2017

RobotCheers uses Ubuntu to create hospitality robots

Article Internet of Things

Meet Spiro. Spiro greets you after a long day of travel, answers questions related to your stay and can give you a guided tour – in essence, all that a hotel concierge offers. Spiro was developed by RobotCheers to enhance the customer experience and is running in hotels across China. The service robot industry is

Canonical
11 April 2017

Maarten Ectors
10 April 2017

The smartest industry 4.0 crane

Article Internet of Things

Lots of big name industrial players are launching IoT platforms and are hopeful that their big data analytics, open APIs, and other features will catapult them to be the leader of industry 4.0. If you don’t have an OT background, you aren’t relevant. I tend to disagree. We don’t need yet another CloudFoundry, Hadoop, Time

Maarten Ectors
10 April 2017

Kyle Fazzari
6 April 2017

From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct. For latest updated documentation about robotics in Canonical please visit https://ubuntu.com/robotics/docs. My background is pretty heavily littered with robotics. A natural side effect of this is that I’ve published...

Kyle Fazzari
6 April 2017

Maarten Ectors
5 April 2017

How Bosch Rexroth is innovating the PLC market

Article Internet of Things

Last year I introduced a new concept called App Logic Controller or ALC. You basically run an app store on a PLC type of device and as such any industrial protocol, edge analytics, cloud or other industrial integration is an app away. Developers can make industrial solutions in days if not hours via open source

Maarten Ectors
5 April 2017

Canonical
4 April 2017

Nexiona collaborates with Canonical and Dell to create MIIMETIQ Edge

Article Internet of Things

There is a perception that IoT projects are complex, expensive and therefore limited to larger companies that have the means to manage them. However, the reality is very different. Nexiona, creators of IoT technology for system integrators, has developed a package that’s affordable to all company sizes – with a process...

Canonical
4 April 2017

David Callé
30 March 2017

Snaps are now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop and server

Article Internet of Things

The snapd team recently announced a new release of snapd supporting Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) for servers and desktop (i386, amd64). The snapd service is what makes possible the installation and management of applications packaged as snaps. In a nutshell, if you have systems using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, welcome to a brand...

David Callé
30 March 2017

Guest
29 March 2017

Making snap packages of photogrammetry software

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by Alberto Mardegan, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Some time ago I got vaguely interested into photogrammetry, that is the reconstruction of a 3D model out of a set of plain 2D photographs. I just thought...

Guest
29 March 2017

Guest
28 March 2017

Battlestar solution

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Forecasts suggest that by 2020, 20bn to 30bn IoT devices will be connected to networks worldwide. Almost certainly, the tactics employed by Colonel Saul Tigh in this clip from...

Guest
28 March 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

Canonical
23 March 2017

Out of date software leaves you vulnerable

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Two weeks ago, Der Spiegel wrote an article highlighting that out of date software on private clouds was leaving government and political party information vulnerable to being hacked. Given that political organisations being targeted is currently such a hot topic, it is somewhat of a surprise how widespread this issue...

Canonical
23 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

Guest
21 March 2017

When products and digital signage speak the same language

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by Dominique Guinard, Co-founder & CTO at EVRYTHNG. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Digital signage is booming. From stores to offices and public buildings, screens are now commonplace. This is a domain our partner Screenly masters, managing...

Guest
21 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
16 March 2017

The Orange Pi community gets a snap store

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Shenzhen Xunlong Software partners with Canonical to build the Orange Pi App Store Developers can distribute their applications packaged as snaps to Orange Pi owners Hackers and tinkerers can install complex IoT and server projects in seconds Shenzhen Xunlong Software benefits from the existing snap community through...

Canonical
16 March 2017

Internet of Things

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