--- title: 'Snaps on NAS: IOT apps for your private network' description: QNAP selects snaps and Ubuntu to bring IOT apps to its NAS On Friday QNAP announced that they were adopting snaps as the application format of choice for their NAS going forward. Behind this decision are two factors, the ease of development of snaps and the universality of snaps, especially to create IoT applications. NAS […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/snaps-on-nas-iot-apps-for-your-private-network?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Thibaut Rouffineau](https://canonical.com/blog/author/thibautr "More about Thibaut Rouffineau") 31 May 2016 # Snaps on NAS: IOT apps for your private network [home gateway](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/home-gateway) [smart home](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/smart-home) [Snap](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/snap) [Ubuntu](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/ubuntu) --- Share the article ## QNAP selects snaps and Ubuntu to bring IOT apps to its NAS On Friday QNAP [announced](https://www.qnap.com/i/uk/news/con_show.php?op=showone&cid=518) that they were adopting snaps as the application format of choice for their NAS going forward. Behind this decision are two factors, the ease of development of snaps and the universality of snaps, especially to create IoT applications. NAS have been around for a while, and have been used across a wide array of use cases from media servers in tech-savvy household to remote file server by SMBs. QNAP have been a pioneer in this space offering an appstore for their NAS, with hundred of apps: local web servers (WordPress, Drupal), Media server (Kodi), Cloud backup … The rise of connected homes and buildings means an increasing number of sensors, smart meters,security cameras, plugs being connected to the local network… And therefore to the local NAS. This means NAS are seeing a new lease of life, and can now start to act as local IoT gateways, offering a great combination of local storage and computing power. A range of IoT applications are particularly suited to run on such machines that require local computing for fast decision making and large data storage for auditing or future prediction reasons. Video surveillance applications for example can use local movement detection algorithms to alert of any intrusion, cost effectively store all the video footage locally for audit purposes, back up to the cloud only relevant footage or summaries. By adopting snaps as the preferred application format for their NAS going forward QNAP is looking to surf on the growing popularity of snaps across Ubuntu desktop and Ubuntu Core in IoT. They’re keen to leverage universality of snaps which can be deployed from Ubuntu desktops to Ubuntu Core IoT Gateways. But also the simplicity of creating snaps, with snapcraft a tool that makes it simple to build secure, contained applications from source easily. [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Arduino® VENTUNO™ Q is available for pre-order with Ubuntu pre-installed](https://canonical.com/blog/arduino-ventuno-q-is-available-for-pre-order-with-ubuntu-pre-installed) London, UK – August 25, 2026 – Following our initial collaboration announcement in March 2026, Canonical and Arduino (a subsidiary of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.) are excited... [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical) 25 August 2026 [### Canonical becomes Gold Sponsor of Trifecta Tech Foundation](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-becomes-gold-sponsor-of-trifecta-tech-foundation) Canonical is pleased to announce it is now a Gold Sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation, a non-profit that creates open source building blocks for critical infrastructure... [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical) 30 June 2026 [### Ubuntu Summit 26.04: connected by open source](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-summit-26-04-connected-by-open-source) What an incredible experience! Ubuntu Summit 26.04 has officially drawn to a close, but the energy from our global community is still buzzing – in the comments section, on... [ilvipero](https://canonical.com/blog/author/ilvipero) 22 June 2026 [### A decade of Ubuntu on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE](https://canonical.com/blog/a-decade-of-ubuntu-on-ibm-z-and-ibm-linuxone) This year we celebrate a decade of Ubuntu Server support on the s390x architecture: marking a long-standing collaboration between Canonical and IBM that began at LinuxCon 2015.... [Pedro Lazzarotto](https://canonical.com/blog/author/pedro-lazzarotto) 12 June 2026