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"IoT"

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2017

Canonical joins EdgeX Foundry to help unify IoT edge computing

Internet of Things Article

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 slow nature of their ...

Guest
17 April 2017

Industrial IoT: manage and control remote assets

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Florian Hoenigschmid, Director of azeti. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com When you make a phone call, watch TV or wash your hands, you probably won’t associate this with terms like predictive maintenance, equipment damage, downtime or Service Level Agreements ...

Kyle Fazzari
13 April 2017

ROS production: our prototype [2/5]

Internet of Things Article

This is the second blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we discussed why Ubuntu Core was a good fit for production robotics. In this post we’ll be on classic Ubuntu, creating the example ROS prototype that we’ll use throughout the rest of the series as we work toward using ...

Thibaut Rouffineau
27 March 2017

Putting Ubuntu in embedded

Internet of Things Article

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 ...

Kyle Fazzari
22 March 2017

Distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps

Internet of Things Article

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 be standalone. For ...

Thibaut Rouffineau
20 March 2017

Three flaws at the heart of IoT security

Internet of Things Article

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 Internet of Things h ...

Canonical
14 March 2017

NXP and Canonical to demo Ubuntu Core on the LS1043A at Embedded World

Internet of Things News

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 quickly go from dev ...

Maarten Ectors
13 March 2017

This elevator catches intruders, saves lives, generates money, …

Internet of Things Article

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
9 March 2017

The $1M/month revenue generating fountain each smart city should have

Internet of Things Article

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 ...

Canonical
2 March 2017

Mobile World Congress 2017: day four recap

Cloud and server Article

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) and augmented reali ...

Maarten Ectors
23 February 2017

MWC17: The future of industrial IoT

Internet of Things Article

The internet of things, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, big data, robots/drones, blockchain, industry 4.0 and other hype terms are popping up everywhere. Our partners will be showcasing real industrial solutions that go far beyond the hype and are based on these cutting edge technologies. How to tell industrial IoT reality apa ...

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