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Blog posts tagged
"IoT"


Galem KAYO
26 November 2020

Embedded Linux for teams

Internet of Things Article

A Linux kernel for each developer team, which uses it to bring up target boards. Bespoke, built, issued, and maintained over years by the vendor. Teams that focus on building great apps, rather than figuring out hardware dependencies. Happy developers that bootstrap smart devices in no time. This is what highly productive embedded systems ...


Galem KAYO
17 November 2020

Cybersecurity defenses for IIoT

Ubuntu Article

Cybersecurity attacks on industrial IoT solutions can have detrimental consequences. This is the case because IoT devices record privacy-sensitive data and control production assets. Therefore, demonstrable trustworthiness is prerequisite to IoT adoption in industrial settings. Fortunately, IT security is a mature field. Experts have iden ...


Galem KAYO
8 November 2020

Edge-native Linux

Internet of Things Article

Tech innovators use Linux to create intelligent devices for homes, factories, buildings, cities or vehicles etc… These things are deployed at the edge, in privacy sensitive or business critical environments. They require ever more compute to run ever smarter applications. A Linux distribution engineered for embedded devices running highly ...


anastasiavalti
5 November 2020

Ubuntu at ROS World 2020: Learn how to do more for your robot

Robotics Article

Come and connect with the Ubuntu robotics team on November 12th to answer all of your questions. This is the first time ROSCon has ever been virtual and is the first time it’s ever been free to attend, so we’re looking forward to seeing tons of new faces! We have ROS experts and field engineers ready and waiting to talk. ...


sidfaber
2 November 2020

ROS 2 and Kubernetes Basics

Cloud and server Article

Construct a prototype ROS 2 system distributed across multiple computers using Kubernetes. Our goal is not only to provide you with a working configuration, but also to help you understand why it succeeds and overcome future design challenges. ...


Canonical
15 October 2020

Introducing HA MicroK8s, the ultra-reliable, minimal Kubernetes

Canonical announcements Article

15th October 2020: Canonical today announced autonomous high availability (HA) clustering in MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes. Already popular for IoT and developer workstations, MicroK8s now gains resilience for production workloads in cloud and server deployments. High availability is enabled automatically once three or more nodes a ...


liam zheng
4 August 2020

Advantech releases EPC-C301 for machine vision applications with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Internet of Things Article

Advantech, a leading global provider of intelligent IoT systems and embedded platforms, is pleased to announce EPC-C301, a compact fanless box PC powered by 8th Gen. Intel® Core™ processor. This system features diverse domain-focused I/O and can operate in broad temperature ranges. EPC-C301 integrates Intel® and Canonical technologies, pr ...


Alan Griffiths
3 July 2020

A snap confined shell based on Mir: Mircade

Internet of Things Article

Mircade: An example snap confined user shell There are various scenarios and reasons for packaging a Snap confined shell and a selection of applications together in a confined environment. You might have applications that work well together for a particular task; or, you may want to offer a number of alternative applications and have them ...


anastasiavalti
24 June 2020

Ubuntu Masters 3: the community expands

Ubuntu Article

What is Ubuntu Masters? The Ubuntu Masters conference stemmed from a vision to bring the engineering community together to freely exchange innovative ideas, in the spirit of open source. After two hugely successful conferences, connecting IT teams across industries and countries, and featuring speakers from innovators such as Adobe, Netfl ...


liam zheng
24 June 2020

Building an Ubuntu Core 18 image for Nitrogen i.MX6 board

Internet of Things Article

This article is written by Taiten Peng. Have you got i.MX6 hardware and are wondering how Ubuntu Core would run on it? In this blog, we will build an Ubuntu Core 18 image with the generic Ubuntu kernel for an i.MX6 based Boundary Devices board. The Nitrogen6X hardware from Boundary Device is well supported upstream ...


Rhys Davies
16 June 2020

The Ubuntu Appliance portfolio

Internet of Things Article

We are delighted to share a new initiative – the Ubuntu Appliance portfolio. Together with NextCloud, Mosquitto, Plex, OpenHAB and AdGuard, we have created a new class of Ubuntu derivatives: specialised appliance images that do one thing beautifully. Ubuntu Appliances transform a Raspberry Pi or PC into a secure, self-updating solution, f ...


Adi Singh
1 June 2020

What’s the deal with edge computing?

Edgex Article

With over 41 billion IoT devices expected to be active by 2027 — that’s at least 5 devices for every person on the planet — edge computing has emerged as a tenable solution to prevent the impending snowballing of network traffic. Allow me to lift the veil on this buzzword and explain why it’s been ...