Internet of Things

Canonical
3 June 2015

So You Want to Write a Snappy App?

Article Cloud and server

Introduction If you are anything like me, you love to write apps for Ubuntu. Like the Ubuntu phone two years ago, snappy is a bit of a green field in terms of IoT related apps. If you are like me and have a Beagle Bone and a Raspberry Pi 2 and several old netbooks and

Canonical
3 June 2015

Canonical
2 June 2015

Intel and Canonical collaborate around IoT gateways

News Internet of Things

Intel and Canonical are collaborating around Intel® IOT Gateways and Snappy Ubuntu Core. The Intel® IOT Gateway will come with support for Snap Stores. The Snap Store supports a model where a range of applications will be deployed to a gateway. In this model, the gateway becomes a platform for multi applications (home,...

Canonical
2 June 2015

Maarten Ectors
28 May 2015

GE’s First Build is the future of smart home appliances…

Article Internet of Things

First Build is the GE team that is responsible for the Chillhub, the first smart fridge with apps. The Chillhub runs Ubuntu Core and as such any Ubuntu developer can make Snappy Apps for it. This week part of the Canonical IoT team has been visiting First Build’s headquarters in Louisville and they have seen

Maarten Ectors
28 May 2015

Maarten Ectors
19 May 2015

IoT World and the power of Snappy Apps everywhere

Article Internet of Things

IoT World was an eye opener for many. The same open source operating system that everybody loves from the cloud now powered the first smart fridge with apps from GE, the first Ubuntu Core drone with apps from Erle-Robotics, industrial gateways with apps, Pengiun Computing professional top of the rack switches with apps,...

Maarten Ectors
19 May 2015

Tom Callway
13 May 2015

IoT World: Snappy for Whitebox Switches

Article Cloud and server

Canonical announces snappy switches with Ubuntu Core and network function apps Penguin Computing the first to ship network switches with snappy Ubuntu Core Canonical today announces the availability of ‘snappy’ Ubuntu Core on whitebox and OCP switches. Ubuntu Core is a high security platform with transactional updates,...

Tom Callway
13 May 2015

Canonical
11 May 2015

IoT World: Canonical & Industry Leaders Drive IoT Commercialization

News Internet of Things

Host of new Snappy Ubuntu Core-enabled devices demonstrate revenue opportunities in IoT First commercially-designed IoT devices with GE’s FirstBuild, Acer, Microsoft & DataArt London and San Francisco, May, 11 2015 – Canonical is collaborating with some of the world’s smartest technology brands, including GE’s...

Canonical
11 May 2015

IoT: Canonical and GE’s FirstBuild Collaborate on Smart Refrigerator

News Internet of Things

San Francisco, CA – May 11, 2015 – FirstBuild, GE Appliances’ new global co-creation community is set to showcase ChillHub, its community-generated smart refrigerator in the Ubuntu booth (Stand 545) at the second annual Internet of Things World conference at the Moscone Center on May 12 – 13, 2015. ChillHub is a...

Canonical
11 May 2015

Maarten Ectors
11 May 2015

First drone with apps – Ubuntu Core Drone

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post from Victor Mayoral from Erle Robotics. Erle-Copter: the first drone with apps powered by Ubuntu Core Over the last months and with the support of Canonical, Erle Robotics engineers have been working hard to bring the first drone with apps to the market. Last week Erle Robotics introduced...

Maarten Ectors
11 May 2015

Canonical
24 April 2015

DataArt’s DeviceHive platform arrives on Azure Marketplace

News Cloud and server

The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) enables businesses to predict when industrial equipment is going to fail, so that action can be taken beforehand. A leader in this space, DataArt, developed one of the first IoT and big data open sourced platforms, DeviceHive, and published on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace....

Canonical
24 April 2015

Canonical
21 April 2015

Ubuntu 15.04: Desktop, Phone and IoT; towards a converged future

News Desktop

Ubuntu 15.04 desktop extends leadership of developer experience Snappy Ubuntu Core on general availability for the first time New developer tools allow immediate and constant access to latest updates London – 21 April, 2015. Ubuntu 15.04, the latest release from Canonical, will be available for download this week with...

Canonical
21 April 2015

Ubuntu 15.04: What’s new for cloud users?

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu 15.04: OpenStack ready to roll with Kilo and first outing of Snappy Core Adds LXD, a new hypervisor with incredible density and speed First release of Snappy Ubuntu Core for cloud container hosts and smart devices OpenStack “Kilo” – Ubuntu leads with choice of SDNs, easy install and management Updated developer...

Canonical
21 April 2015

Udi Nachmany
16 April 2015

Using Snappy Ubuntu Core on Certified Public Clouds

Article Cloud and server

In December we announced Snappy Ubuntu Core for the public cloud, and its availability in beta on Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, as well as Vagrant. Snappy is the smallest, leanest Ubuntu ever, perfect for ultra-dense computing in cloud container farms, Docker app deployments or...

Udi Nachmany
16 April 2015

Maarten Ectors
8 April 2015

The power of Software Defined Networking appliances – SDNA

Article Internet of Things

For Mobile World Congress we purchased the cheapest Intel server with 6 ports from the Amazon Store: After installing Snappy Ubuntu Core and working with partners like Microsoft, F5, Dataart, Cybervision, Forgerock, ARM, Balabit, Zabbix, etc. and the Ubuntu Core engineering team, the server became this: A switch,...

Maarten Ectors
8 April 2015

Uber meets IoT

Article Internet of Things

Thanks to Ninjablocks and their Ninjasphere, Uber meets IoT. Use gesture control to call for an Uber ride. Uber revolutionised the world of personal transport via an app on your mobile. Imagine the same power of apps onto any smart device in your home, business, city, etc. using the operating system you are already...

Maarten Ectors
8 April 2015

Internet of Things

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