Internet of Things

All you need to know about building and managing IoT and embedded devices using Ubuntu.

From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core

by Kyle Fazzari on 6 April 2017

Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct. For latest updated documentation about robotics in Canonical...

How Bosch Rexroth is innovating the PLC market

by Maarten Ectors on 5 April 2017

Last year I introduced a new concept called App Logic Controller or ALC. You basically run an app store on a PLC type of device and as such any industrial...

Nexiona collaborates with Canonical and Dell to create MIIMETIQ Edge

by Canonical on 4 April 2017

There is a perception that IoT projects are complex, expensive and therefore limited to larger companies that have the means to manage them. However, the...

Snaps are now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop and server

by David Callé on 30 March 2017

The snapd team recently announced a new release of snapd supporting Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) for servers and desktop (i386, amd64). The snapd service is what...

Making snap packages of photogrammetry software

by Guest on 29 March 2017

This is a guest post by Alberto Mardegan, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

Battlestar solution

by Guest on 28 March 2017

This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact [email protected] Forecasts...

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...

Out of date software leaves you vulnerable

by Canonical on 23 March 2017

Two weeks ago, Der Spiegel wrote an article highlighting that out of date software on private clouds was leaving government and political party information...

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...

When products and digital signage speak the same language

by Guest on 21 March 2017

This is a guest post by Dominique Guinard, Co-founder & CTO at EVRYTHNG. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

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,...

The Orange Pi community gets a snap store

by Canonical on 16 March 2017

Shenzhen Xunlong Software partners with Canonical to build the Orange Pi App Store Developers can distribute their applications packaged as snaps to Orange Pi...