Internet of Things

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

The smart multi-personality vending machine

Article Internet of Things

This vending machine is unlike you have seen before. It is a telecom operator in a box. Minutes later it cures the chronic ill via an Uber for Doctors and saves public health care billions. Sell you a house. Be your bank. Anything is possible. The vending machine we displayed at MWC 2017 was

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
11 March 2017

The cheapest and smartest mobile and IoT base station of MWC17

Article Internet of Things

How to solve the top telecom industry problems (declining revenues, spiralling costs, slow time to market) and revolutionise the wireless industry? Open Source Mobile and IoT Base Stations with App Stores. At MWC15 we presented the smartest top of the rack switch of the show. Many network experts did not believe that...

Maarten Ectors
11 March 2017

Canonical
9 March 2017

Mobile World Congress 2017. One for the records – bigger and better!

Article Internet of Things

Mobile World Congress was one for the record books! For starters, we blew-out last year’s number of visitors to Canonical’s Ubuntu booth. The mixture was consumer targeting businesses looking for device/mobility updates, IoT advances, and innovation around artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality. On the other...

Canonical
9 March 2017

Didier Roche
9 March 2017

Fresh Snaps from February 2017

Article Internet of Things

It’s that time of the month! Didier has put together a selection of top ten snaps written in February ranging from blockchain to graphical applications. To recap for those that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats

Didier Roche
9 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

Maarten Ectors
8 March 2017

How to become a LimeSDR innovator?

Article Internet of Things

After an amazing week at MWC, I got people reaching out to me that want to be a LimeSDR innovator. Here is a short guide on what to do and what we are working on next. Start by getting your LimeSDR. At Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, we started a new open source standard to

Maarten Ectors
8 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

didrocks
2 March 2017

A couple of new snap tutorials are now available

Article Internet of Things

We are really proud to announce a new couple of snaps tutorials now available on https://tutorials.ubuntu.com The first one is a pure community contribution thanks to Simos Xenitellis who did a first draft on his own blog. With only a little bit of guidance, we got his work turned into this excellent “Snap a python

didrocks
2 March 2017

Canonical
1 March 2017

Mobile World Congress 2017: day 3 recap

Article Cloud and server

With day three coming-and-going, it is clear the telecoms are going to come under more and more pressure to change their business models not to just thrive, but survive. The biggest threat to today’s telecom service providers are public cloud. Firms like Amazon, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud have become the supply...

Canonical
1 March 2017

Mobile World Congress 2017: day two recap

Article Canonical announcements

One of the overarching themes of day two at MWC has been how software can help telecom service providers to improve operational IT efficiencies – i.e. improved automation and reduced human interaction. For telecom service providers, the problem is not building a cloud, rather operating and maintaining it once...

Canonical
1 March 2017

Canonical
27 February 2017

Mobile World Congress 2017: day one recap

Article Cloud and server

It’s the last week of February and that can only mean one thing, Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. This event, unlike other mega shows, has stood the test of time and has maintained its title as the premier telecom, device, and Internet of Things (IoT) conference in the world. For the past several

Canonical
27 February 2017

The Dell Edge Gateway 3000 launches with Ubuntu Core 16

Article Internet of Things

See the small Dell Edge Gateway 3000 with Ubuntu Core at the Ubuntu booth at MWC 2017 – Hall P3 3K1 Dell Technologies is today announcing the new Dell Edge Gateway 3000 series, at Mobile World Congress 2017. The latest in the line of its purpose built gateways, the 3000 Series includes three unique models

Canonical
27 February 2017

Internet of Things

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