IoT

Internet of Things
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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...

Cloud and server

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....

Internet of Things

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...

Internet of Things

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...

Phone and tablet

Another successful Developer Hackathon in China

by April Wang on 27 August 2015

The second in a series of Chinese developer hackathons took place last weekend (22nd and 23rd August) in Shenzhen. Once again there was an overwhelming...

Internet of Things

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...

Internet of Things
Internet of Things

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...

Internet of Things

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...

Cloud and server

Zabbix + IoT/Snappy: allows users to feel the pulse of things

by Canonical on 12 June 2015

Things around us are becoming smarter every day and many tasks we use to perform manually are becoming automated. As our dependency on the Internet of Things...