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Sarah Dickinson
17 May 2017

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

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

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 and more. The 2017 ...

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2017

Canonical joins EdgeX Foundry to help unify IoT edge computing

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Kyle Fazzari
21 April 2017

ROS production: our prototype as a snap [3/5]

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

This is the third blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we came up with a simple ROS prototype. In this post we’ll package that prototype as a snap. For justifications behind why we’re doing this, please see the first post in the series. We know from the previous post ...

Guest
29 March 2017

Making snap packages of photogrammetry software

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

This is a guest post by Alberto Mardegan, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Some time ago I got vaguely interested into photogrammetry, that is the reconstruction of a 3D model out of a set of plain 2D photographs. I just thought that it was ...

Canonical
16 March 2017

The Orange Pi community gets a snap store

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Shenzhen Xunlong Software partners with Canonical to build the Orange Pi App Store Developers can distribute their applications packaged as snaps to Orange Pi owners Hackers and tinkerers can install complex IoT and server projects in seconds Shenzhen Xunlong Software benefits from the existing snap community through the branded store off ...

Canonical
14 March 2017

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

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

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
11 March 2017

The cheapest and smartest mobile and IoT base station of MWC17

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

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 the cheapest server ...

Maarten Ectors
9 March 2017

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

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

didrocks
2 March 2017

A couple of new snap tutorials are now available

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Maarten Ectors
23 February 2017

MWC17: The future of industrial IoT

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Maarten Ectors
17 February 2017

MWC17: The future of wireless networks

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

The telecom industry is not as buoyant as it was some years back. Telecom operators ‘ revenues are under pressure due to innovations from over the top players. Costs are spiralling out of control because of 4/5G deployments, fibre to the premise, social networking data explosions, 4K video streaming, IoT and more. Time to market ...

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