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"Ubuntu Core"

Jamie Bennett
18 April 2018

Eclipse 2018 survey: The IoT landscape, what it empirically looks like

Internet of Things Article

Every year the Eclipse Foundation along with other sponsors conduct an online survey of the IoT market looking at what technologies are being used and how. The 2018 edition of that survey has just been made available and I thought it would be a great idea to look at some of the overarching trends.  The Internet ...

Guest
5 April 2018

The Nextcloud Box: a review of building an IoT device with snaps

Internet of Things Article

In 2016, Canonical, Nextcloud and WDLabs introduced the Nextcloud Box, the first IoT style device running with snaps out of the box. Besides sales of nearly 2K boxes before Western Digital shut down their research division WDLabs late last year, the snap been extremely popular with some days hitting over 10,000 downloads. Its installed ba ...

Kyle Fazzari
16 March 2018

Your first robot: Sharing with others [5/5]

Desktop Article

This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we discussed methods of control, did a little math, and wrote the ROS driver for our robot. But it still required several nodes to be running at once, and sharing ...

Kyle Fazzari
9 March 2018

Your first robot: The driver [4/5]

Desktop Article

This is the fourth blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we worked on getting data out of the wireless controller and into ROS in a format meant for controlling differential drive robots like ours: the Twist message. Today we’re going to create ...

Canonical
21 February 2018

Canonical announces Ubuntu Core across Rigado’s IoT gateways

Canonical announcements News

Rigado customers will benefit from open source, cost-effective, secure software in their commercial IoT deployments London, UK –  21st February 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Ubuntu Core will be deployed across Rigado’s Edge Connectivity gateway solutions, further establishing Ubuntu Core as the premier ...

Kyle Fazzari
11 February 2018

Your first robot: The controller [3/5]

Desktop Article

This is the third blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post you were introduced to the Robot Operating System (ROS), and got your robot moving by ROSifying one of the CamJam worksheets. Today we’re going to move beyond the CamJam worksheets, and work ...

Sarah Dickinson
30 November 2017

Ubuntu Core manages 25m data points a minute

Internet of Things Article

IMS Evolve’s systems monitor 25 million data points every minute of every day and manage almost 98,000 sites across 12 countries. Learn how they adopted Ubuntu Core on Dell Edge Gateways to run the cold-chain solutions of some of the most recognisable food retailers. ...

Sarah Dickinson
20 November 2017

Building a future-proofed IoT consumer device with brand stores

Internet of Things Article

When building or deploying any IoT device either in remote locations or consumer’s homes, it is now essential for manufacturers to consider and review how their devices can be future-proofed once it leaves their warehouses – such as update mechanisms and deploying security patches quickly. This is particularly so in the consumer market wh ...

Sarah Dickinson
2 November 2017

Launching Fingbox: from idea to distribution in under a year

Internet of Things Article

If you’re using a network security and scanning tool at home then there is a strong chance you have adopted Fing – the free network scanner for iOS and Android with over 25 million downloads. Following the success of their app, the founders of Fing decided to launch their first hardware product called Fingbox. Less ...

Sarah Dickinson
24 October 2017

Cinergy makes significant digital signage savings using Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

Based in Dallas, Texas, Cinergy operates a chain of three cinema entertainment centres (CECs) with ambitious expansion plans. CECs are an all in one entertainment venue incorporating cinemas, restaurants, bowling and other activities such as escape rooms. With so many activities to communicate including the latest promotions and film time ...

Canonical
13 September 2017

NEC partners with Canonical on Ubuntu Core based signage platform

Canonical announcements News

CMS digital signage solution leverages NEC large format displays and the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 Munich, 13 September 2017 – NEC Display Solutions Europe today announced a collaboration with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Core and Screenly, the leading digital signage software solution for Raspberry Pi. This is one of several ...

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