Blog posts tagged
"IoT"

330 posts


Canonical
9 August 2017

68% of businesses are struggling to hire talent for IoT

News Canonical announcements

Research from Canonical shows businesses are battling with drought in the “Internet of Talent” pool London, 9th August 2017 – Businesses are struggling to recruit employees with the skills needed to make the internet of things a success according to a new IoT Business Models report from Canonical – the makers of the IoT...

Canonical
9 August 2017


Guest
20 July 2017

Robot development made easy with Husarion CORE2-ROS & Ubuntu – part 2

Article Internet of Things

This is the second post in a series of two by guest bloggers from Husarion; Domink Nowak and Michal Zieliński. The first blog can be read here. This blog picks up on why Husarion use Ubuntu… Ubuntu has a very wide collection of packages, both in official repositories and supplied by third-parties. For example, the Robot...

Guest
20 July 2017


Canonical
19 July 2017

Achieving ROI trumps security as the IoT industry’s biggest challenge

News Canonical announcements

While security concerns continue to grab headlines, business benefits and ROI are the top-ranked challenges for IoT professionals today London, 19 July 2017 – Despite over 23,000 articles* being written about IoT security in the last 12 months, it’s ensuring a return on investment that represents the biggest challenge...

Canonical
19 July 2017


Guest
12 July 2017

Robot development made easy with Husarion CORE2-ROS running Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

This is the first in a series of two posts by guest blogger; Dominik Nowak, CEO at Husarion. We’ve seen many breakthroughs happening in the IT industry over the last decade. Arguably the most meaningful one on the consumer side was the adoption of smartphones and mobile development. What’s the next big thing, now that

Guest
12 July 2017


Sarah Dickinson
12 July 2017

TechnoSec and Ubuntu Core help DE.OL transition to a smart factory

Article Internet of Things

The industrial internet of things market (IIoT) is estimated to reach US$ 195.47bn by 2022 according to Markets and Markets. A number of companies in this sector recognise the need to modernise their operations – DE.OL, an Italian company who design and manufacture hydraulic cylinders are one of these. Working with...

Sarah Dickinson
12 July 2017


Sarah Dickinson
3 July 2017

AZLOGICA use Ubuntu Core for customised IoT agricultural solutions

Article Internet of Things

Shrimps are now considered as the most lucrative seafood product with demand growing from consumers due to their high nutritional value. This is reflected in the export figures with the two largest exporters of shrimps, Ecuador and India, seeing increases of 7.6% and 10.8% respectively in the first half of 2016. Due to...

Sarah Dickinson
3 July 2017


Sarah Dickinson
3 July 2017

How Ubuntu helped InnovaPOS revolutionise the vending machine industry

Article Internet of Things

The smart vending machines market is on the rise with estimates of 2.7 million to be sold by 2020 with Asia Pacific predicted to be the fastest growing region with a CAGR of 15% over the same period. It is this opportunity that Spanish company InnovaPOS, founded in 2014, was created to spearhead. Their vision

Sarah Dickinson
3 July 2017


Canonical
27 June 2017

Canonical supports Ubuntu Core on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3

News Canonical announcements

London UK, 27th June 2017: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announces that its IoT OS, Ubuntu Core, is available on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 – the general-purpose compute product from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 (CM3), announced in January 2017, is a micro-version...

Canonical
27 June 2017


Canonical
13 June 2017

Amazon Greengrass launches as a snap on Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

Last week, Amazon launched Greengrass, their new IoT platform allowing developers to create intelligent edge software. Amazon is collaborating with a variety of manufacturers to make Greengrass available on as many devices as possible from home gateways, industrial gateways to smart microphones. This is a reflection of...

Canonical
13 June 2017


Kyle Fazzari
31 May 2017

The Turtlebot 3 has launched

Article Internet of Things

If you’re familiar with ROS (Robot Operating System), chances are you’re also familiar with the Turtlebot. The first version of the Turtlebot was created back in 2010 to serve as an inexpensive platform for learning ROS. This was followed in 2012 by the Turtlebot 2, which has since become the reference platform for...

Kyle Fazzari
31 May 2017


Sarah Dickinson
17 May 2017

Ubuntu ranked as 2nd most used IoT OS by Eclipse Foundation survey

Article Internet of Things

Last week we posted a blog on programming languages following the Eclipse Foundation 2017 IoT survey results. This week we look at the findings from a business perspective which highlight a number of IoT trends emerging from the wide ranging survey from key industries, growth of new technologies, most common concerns...

Sarah Dickinson
17 May 2017


Sarah Dickinson
10 May 2017

Why language choices can be irrelevant when choosing the right IoT OS

Article Internet of Things

This is the first in a series of two blogs exploring the finding from the latest Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. A couple of months ago we posted a blog inviting developers to contribute to the 3rd Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. The 2017 results are now published with a total of 713 respondents, from all

Sarah Dickinson
10 May 2017


Canonical
9 May 2017

Webinar: Delivering the value of IoT in the retail industry

Article Internet of Things

    Register Now IoT is being embraced by an increasingly diverse set of sectors and one which is reaping the benefits is the retail sector, specifically supermarkets and how they are using data in cold-chain (refrigeration) solutions. For this webinar, join Paul Edrich, CTO of IMS Evolve, who is helping major...

Canonical
9 May 2017


Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2017

Canonical joins EdgeX Foundry to help unify IoT edge computing

Article Internet of Things

Fragmentation is the nature of the beast in the IoT space with a variety of non-interoperable protocols, devices and vendors which are the natural results of years of evolution in the industrial space especially. However traditional standardisation processes and proprietary implementations have been the norm. But the...

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2017