Internet of Things
All you need to know about building and managing IoT and embedded devices using Ubuntu.
Internet of Things
Crowdsourcing the #AppEnabledHome: GE, FirstBuild and Canonical
by Maarten Ectors on 22 September 2015
IoT is changing the home. Soon you will have apps and app stores on any type of home appliance. Earlier this year, GE’s FirstBuild brought to market the...
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Ubuntu nominated in V3 Technology Awards shortlist; cast your vote!
by Canonical on 17 September 2015
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The future of access networks
by Maarten Ectors on 16 September 2015
IoT, Docker, Big Data, Cloud, mobile apps, Video on Demand, etc. It seems like innovation is accelerating but without a roadmap, business plan or strategy....
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Pi-Cubes – App-Enabled HVAC Control
by Maarten Ectors on 9 September 2015
This is a guest post by the Cube-Controls team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using...
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The App-Enabled Spider
by Maarten Ectors on 8 September 2015
This is a guest post by the Erle-Robotics team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using...
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Meet Mycroft: Open Source Artificial Intelligence Powered by Snappy
by Maarten Ectors on 14 August 2015
This is a guest post by the Mycroft team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using Ubuntu...
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The first app-enabled spider
by Maarten Ectors on 5 August 2015
If you are into robot spiders then the erle-spider is something to look forward to. It will be the first app-enabled Snappy Ubuntu Core and ROS powered robot...
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Java on Snappy
by Maarten Ectors on 3 August 2015
Snapcraft is a new tool allowing developers to easily and quickly package their favourite projects as Snappy Apps or Snaps. Since lots of enterprise...
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Spreedbox – most private video chat and file exchange
by Maarten Ectors on 30 July 2015
This is a guest post by Struktur AG. Today, most organizations use online services for communication and often have confidential data shared and stored with...
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More Juju, Big Data and Snappy Beauty from Dataart
by Maarten Ectors on 23 July 2015
What do you get when you combine Juju with Spark & Apache Zeppelin, Raspberry Pi with Snappy, Bluetooth Low Energy, DeviceHive and a TI SensorTag? Check out...
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Flying mobile base stations
by Maarten Ectors on 9 July 2015
Lime Microsystems builds open source hardware chips to enable any type of wireless communication, called software defined radio. Elre-robotics makes...