Internet of Things archives
54 posts from 2018
Ubuntu Core Smart Speaker
By Alan Pope, 20 December 2018
With the holidays coming up, many of us can expect to spend time with our friends and families, often listening to seasonal music, or indeed escaping the...
Design and Web team summary – 19 December 2018
By Anthony Dillon, 19 December 2018
Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. Base squad This week, the bulk of our work was on improving our internal system for...
Secure VPN Connection with Ubuntu Core
By Alan Pope, 12 December 2018
As part of a personal drive to be less dependent on 3rd party Internet services, I’ve moved some things in house, under my own control. This includes...
Canonical launches MicroK8s – deploy Kubernetes in seconds
By Canonical, 6 December 2018
Canonical has released MicroK8s – a fast and efficient upstream Kubernetes delivered as a single snap package that installs on 42 flavours of Linux. With a...
Design and Web team summary – 04 December 2018
By Anthony Dillon, 4 December 2018
Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. Web squad Takeovers In collaboration with the marketing team, we have produced three...
Collaborative robots – Cobots and the changing nature of work
By Guest, 3 December 2018
This is a guest blog by Jamie Branch, Corrosion Engineer at Apellix. Collaborative robots, or cobots, work side by side with humans to enhance human...
The power of installed-base snap metrics
By cprov, 27 November 2018
The Snap Store is able to provide insightful information to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) about usage of their snap applications. Our goal is to help...
Behind the drone: how aerial robotics solve industrial IOT challenges
By Alex Cattle, 20 November 2018
Apellix, an emerging leader in the field of aerial robotics, are creating innovative industrial solutions with the help of Ubuntu. The development of aerial...
Innovating toward safety: computer controlled aerial robotic systems
By Guest, 14 November 2018
This is a guest blog by Jamie Branch, Corrosion Engineer at Apellix. In the United States alone, 849 workers lost their lives in 2016 from falling while on...
Ubuntu Core and Kura: A framework for IoT gateways
By James Nunns, 10 November 2018
The Linux distribution model, whilst established and well understood for computing, has some limitations when it comes to IoT edge gateway devices. Due to...
The rise of the Digital Smart Kiosk
By Guest, 9 November 2018
This is a guest blog by Jody Smith, Product Manager at Broadsign. The world’s increasing demand for quick, personalised service often clashes with budgetary...
A guide to snap permissions and interfaces
By Alex Murray, 1 November 2018
Snap is a Linux application package management system which allow developers to easily publish self contained software packages (snaps) that work across many...