Internet of Things archives
73 posts from 2015
IoT World and the power of Snappy Apps everywhere
By Maarten Ectors, 19 May 2015
IoT World was an eye opener for many. The same open source operating system that everybody loves from the cloud now powered the first smart fridge with apps...
IoT World: Snappy for Whitebox Switches
By Tom Callway, 13 May 2015
Canonical announces snappy switches with Ubuntu Core and network function apps Penguin Computing the first to ship network switches with snappy Ubuntu Core...
IoT World: Canonical & Industry Leaders Drive IoT Commercialization
By Canonical, 11 May 2015
Host of new Snappy Ubuntu Core-enabled devices demonstrate revenue opportunities in IoT First commercially-designed IoT devices with GE’s FirstBuild, Acer,...
IoT: Canonical and GE’s FirstBuild Collaborate on Smart Refrigerator
By Canonical, 11 May 2015
San Francisco, CA – May 11, 2015 – FirstBuild, GE Appliances’ new global co-creation community is set to showcase ChillHub, its community-generated smart...
First drone with apps – Ubuntu Core Drone
By Maarten Ectors, 11 May 2015
This is a guest post from Victor Mayoral from Erle Robotics. Erle-Copter: the first drone with apps powered by Ubuntu Core Over the last months and with the...
DataArt’s DeviceHive platform arrives on Azure Marketplace
By Canonical, 24 April 2015
The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) enables businesses to predict when industrial equipment is going to fail, so that action can be taken beforehand. A...
Ubuntu 15.04: Desktop, Phone and IoT; towards a converged future
By Canonical, 21 April 2015
Ubuntu 15.04 desktop extends leadership of developer experience Snappy Ubuntu Core on general availability for the first time New developer tools allow...
Ubuntu 15.04: What’s new for cloud users?
By Canonical, 21 April 2015
Ubuntu 15.04: OpenStack ready to roll with Kilo and first outing of Snappy Core Adds LXD, a new hypervisor with incredible density and speed First release of...
Using Snappy Ubuntu Core on Certified Public Clouds
By Udi Nachmany, 16 April 2015
In December we announced Snappy Ubuntu Core for the public cloud, and its availability in beta on Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google...
The power of Software Defined Networking appliances – SDNA
By Maarten Ectors, 8 April 2015
For Mobile World Congress we purchased the cheapest Intel server with 6 ports from the Amazon Store: After installing Snappy Ubuntu Core and working with...
Uber meets IoT
By Maarten Ectors, 8 April 2015
Thanks to Ninjablocks and their Ninjasphere, Uber meets IoT. Use gesture control to call for an Uber ride. Uber revolutionised the world of personal transport...
Predictive Maintenance on Industrial Turbines Explained via Duct Tape
By Maarten Ectors, 8 April 2015
In the world of IoT all consultancy slides talk about predictive maintenance as being the “Killer Industrial IoT App”. However Dataart took the theory to a...