Blog posts tagged
"Internet of things"

43 posts


Canonical
2 February 2021

Ubuntu Core 20 secures Linux for IoT

Article Internet of Things

2nd February 2021: Canonical’s Ubuntu Core 20, a minimal, containerised version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for IoT devices and embedded systems, is now generally available. This major version bolsters device security with secure boot, full disk encryption, and secure device recovery. Ubuntu Core builds on the Ubuntu...

Canonical
2 February 2021


Valentin Viennot
16 November 2020

Edge computing is dead, long live micro clouds and IoT gateways

Article Cloud and server

“The King is dead, long live the King.” It might be my french roots speaking, but it seems that actual use cases are replacing King Edge, and it might be for the best. Warning; do not read this blog if you’re particularly sensitive about edge computing (and if you don’t know what this is about,

Valentin Viennot
16 November 2020


Canonical
2 November 2020

How Kubernetes is transforming the industrial edge

Article Internet of Things

According to leading independent researchers teknowlogy | PAC, open source platforms – and Kubernetes in particular – are central to the future of digital factories.  The PAC RADAR report offers a detailed market analysis of industrial digitalisation trends, and it predicts that Kubernetes-based platforms that bring...

Canonical
2 November 2020


Adi Singh
1 June 2020

What’s the deal with edge computing?

Article Edgex

With over 41 billion IoT devices expected to be active by 2027 — that’s at least 5 devices for every person on the planet — edge computing has emerged as a tenable solution to prevent the impending snowballing of network traffic. Allow me to lift the veil on this buzzword and explain why it’s been

Adi Singh
1 June 2020


Alex Cattle
31 March 2020

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

Case study Internet of Things

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

Case study Internet of Things

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


sidfaber
24 January 2020

Teaching Robotics with ROS on Ubuntu at SRU

Article Robotics

This week, as part of my work on the Ubuntu Robotics team, I headed up to Slippery Rock University in northwestern PA to meet with Dr. Sam Thangiah and to introduce students to the Robot Operating System (ROS).  New semester, lots of new opportunities for learning! We started with a really simple robot environment.  Check

sidfaber
24 January 2020


cmoullec
17 January 2020

5 key steps to take your IoT device to market

Article Internet of Things

IoT businesses are notoriously difficult to get off the ground. No matter how good your product is or how good your team is, some of the biggest problems you will face are just in getting to market and maintaining your devices once they’re in the field. The webinar will take a look at how Canonical’s

cmoullec
17 January 2020


Sarah Dickinson
10 December 2019

ObjectBox, database for IoT devices, adopts snaps for simplicity and ease of installation

Article Edgex

When designers put their heart and soul into making super-fast, easy-to-use software to help take Internet of Things (IoT) apps to the next level, installation of that software needs to meet the same high standards. ObjectBox is a database and synchronisation solution for rapid, efficient edge computing for mobile and...

Sarah Dickinson
10 December 2019


Alex Cattle
29 November 2019

Build smart display devices with Mir: fast to production, secure, open-source

Article Internet of Things

Industrial robots, home appliances, advertising screens, office information boards… devices of every type around us are getting connected. As they do, their screens turn from single purpose displays to reconfigurable, multi-purpose smart display. As the amount of code required to build these displays, the production...

Alex Cattle
29 November 2019


Sarah Dickinson
28 October 2019

Standardising software to quickly deliver a smart city platform for millions

Article Internet of Things

New York has the highest population density of any city in the United States with over 27,000 people per square mile. The average New Yorker has a commute of 40 minutes, 14 more than the national average. There are over 200 languages spoken in the city. These statistics alone illustrate the challenge of communicating to

Sarah Dickinson
28 October 2019


Galem KAYO
23 July 2019

Getting started with Ubuntu Core – streaming video from a Raspberry Pi

Article Internet of Things

Artificial intelligence relies on machine vision just as much as human intelligence relies on vision. Image sensors are, therefore, crucial for AI applications because of the richness of data that they capture. Capturing and processing video and images at the edge is a capability that intelligent IoT applications need...

Galem KAYO
23 July 2019


Canonical
13 June 2019

Customisable for the enterprise: the next-generation of drones

Article Internet of Things

Drones, and their wide-ranging uses, have been a constant topic of conversation for some years now, but we’re only just beginning to move away from the hypothetical and into reality. The FAA estimates that there will be 2 million drones in the United States alone in 2019, as adoption within the likes of distribution,...

Canonical
13 June 2019


Canonical
18 April 2019

Open infrastructure, developer desktop and IoT are the focus for Ubuntu 19.04

Article Cloud and server

18th April, 2019: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 19.04, focused on open infrastructure deployments, the developer desktop, IoT, and cloud to edge software distribution. “The open-source-first on Ubuntu movement in telco, finance, and media has spread to other sectors. From the public cloud to the...

Canonical
18 April 2019