IoT
Internet of Things
The Turtlebot 3 has launched
by Kyle Fazzari on 31 May 2017
If you’re familiar with ROS (Robot Operating System), chances are you’re also familiar with the Turtlebot. The first version of the Turtlebot was created back...
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Ubuntu ranked as 2nd most used IoT OS by Eclipse Foundation survey
by Sarah Dickinson on 17 May 2017
Last week we posted a blog on programming languages following the Eclipse Foundation 2017 IoT survey results. This week we look at the findings from a...
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Why language choices can be irrelevant when choosing the right IoT OS
by Sarah Dickinson on 10 May 2017
This is the first in a series of two blogs exploring the finding from the latest Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. A couple of months ago we posted a...
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Webinar: Delivering the value of IoT in the retail industry
by Canonical on 9 May 2017
Register Now IoT is being embraced by an increasingly diverse set of sectors and one which is reaping the benefits is the retail sector, specifically...
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Canonical joins EdgeX Foundry to help unify IoT edge computing
by Sarah Dickinson on 24 April 2017
Fragmentation is the nature of the beast in the IoT space with a variety of non-interoperable protocols, devices and vendors which are the natural results of...
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Industrial IoT: manage and control remote assets
by Guest on 17 April 2017
This is a guest post by Florian Hoenigschmid, Director of azeti. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected]...
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ROS production: our prototype [2/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 13 April 2017
This is the second blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we discussed why Ubuntu Core was a good fit for production robotics. In...
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Putting Ubuntu in embedded
by Thibaut Rouffineau on 27 March 2017
This year Canonical joined Embedded World 2017 for the first time with a booth. And the initial reaction from anyone visiting the booth was one of surprise...
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Distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps
by Kyle Fazzari on 22 March 2017
One of the key tenets of snaps is that they bundle their dependencies. The fact that they’re self-contained helps their transactional-ness: upgrading or...
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Three flaws at the heart of IoT security
by Thibaut Rouffineau on 20 March 2017
This blog has been syndicated from SCMagazine UK, contributed by Thibaut Rouffineau – head of devices marketing. According to the latest estimates by Gartner,...
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NXP and Canonical to demo Ubuntu Core on the LS1043A at Embedded World
by Canonical on 14 March 2017
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...
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This elevator catches intruders, saves lives, generates money, …
by Maarten Ectors on 13 March 2017
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...