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Blog posts tagged
"IoT"


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 ...


Canonical
22 February 2017

Screenly announces a follow-up to its popular digital signage solution

Internet of Things Article

Screenly’s platform has grown to run over 10,000 screens in less than four years Making it the largest commercial deployment of Raspberry Pi for digital signage Enables rich content in-store screens to be flexible media platform Screenly 2 has been rebuilt from scratch with Ubuntu Core to bring more and easier to use features with ...


Amrisha Prashar
21 February 2017

Webinar: Qt on Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

Are you interested in developing Qt on Ubuntu Core? Learning how to package Qt apps as snaps? And the solutions they bring to the world of Digital Signage? If so, join us for a webinar. You will learn the following: Introduction to Ubuntu and Qt in digital signage Why use Qt for digital signage Packaging ...


Canonical
20 February 2017

IOTA: IoT revolutionised with a ledger

Internet of Things Article

Ever since the introduction of digital money, the world quickly came to realize how dire and expensive the consequences of centralized systems are. Not only are these systems incredibly expensive to maintain, they are also “single points of failures” which expose a large number of users to unexpected service interruptions, fraudulent acti ...


Amrisha Prashar
13 February 2017

Eclipse foundation: IoT developer survey

Internet of Things Article

The third annual IoT Developer Survey, hosted by Eclipse IoT has just been launched. In previous years it has provided interesting insights about how developers are building IoT solutions, for example – did you know that 73% of people use Linux to develop their IoT projects? – Canonical is pleased to support this initiative once ...


Canonical
9 February 2017

openHAB arrives as a snap!

Internet of Things Article

openHAB is a completely open source smart home alternative to Apple Homekit and Samsung SmartThings. Consumers can mix and match hardware and services from different brands London, UK – February 9th, 2017: Canonical, openHAB Foundation and Azul Systems have launched the snap packaging of openHAB 2.0, a free open smart home platform that a ...


Maarten Ectors
6 February 2017

10 crazy IoT ideas that can soon become real

Internet of Things Article

1) Smart cities: revenue generating fountains What if instead of being a cost to cities, fountains become a revenue generator? Crazy idea? Just put the same coin accepting mechanism you find in vending machines and allow tourists to switch the fountain on for 30 seconds to get the ideal photo taken. But why not put ...


Amrisha Prashar
3 February 2017

The first consumer device to run snaps: Nextcloud box

Internet of Things Article

The Nextcloud box is a private cloud and IoT solution for home users, giving consumers a way to take back control over their personal data. It’s an app-enabled home gateway and the first Ubuntu-Core-enabled consumer device. Snaps and Ubuntu Core are key enablers of the “out-of-the-box” solution, sustainable auto-update and security functi ...