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Blog posts tagged
"Internet of things"


jiashiuan
21 July 2021

Why Ubuntu Certification Matters for AIoT

Internet of Things Article

DFI is the world’s first industrial computer manufacturer to join the Ubuntu IoT Hardware Certification Partner Program. Three DFI products have been certified recently, which means you will have an out-of-box experience, secure, faster time to market with DFI products and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is preloaded on the certified devices, and Canonica ...


Canonical
2 February 2021

Ubuntu Core 20 secures Linux for IoT

Internet of Things Article

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 application ecosystem to crea ...


Valentin Viennot
16 November 2020

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

Cloud and server Article

“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, ...


Canonical
2 November 2020

How Kubernetes is transforming the industrial edge

Internet of Things Article

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 together edge and clou ...


Adi Singh
1 June 2020

What’s the deal with edge computing?

Edgex Article

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 ...


Alex Cattle
31 March 2020

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

Internet of Things Case study

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 software – and ...


Alex Cattle
26 March 2020

How Domotz streamlined provisioning of IoT devices

Internet of Things Case study

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 release cadence. One of ...


sidfaber
24 January 2020

Teaching Robotics with ROS on Ubuntu at SRU

Robotics Article

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 ...


cmoullec
17 January 2020

5 key steps to take your IoT device to market

Internet of Things Article

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 ...


Sarah Dickinson
10 December 2019

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

Edgex Article

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 IoT devices. Rather ...


Alex Cattle
29 November 2019

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

Internet of Things Article

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 time and maintenance b ...


Sarah Dickinson
28 October 2019

Standardising software to quickly deliver a smart city platform for millions

Internet of Things Article

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 ...