Internet of Things

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

FTC and D-Link

by Guest on 19 April 2017

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

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]...

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...

RobotCheers uses Ubuntu to create hospitality robots

by Canonical on 11 April 2017

Meet Spiro. Spiro greets you after a long day of travel, answers questions related to your stay and can give you a guided tour – in essence, all that a hotel...

The smartest industry 4.0 crane

by Maarten Ectors on 10 April 2017

Lots of big name industrial players are launching IoT platforms and are hopeful that their big data analytics, open APIs, and other features will catapult...

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Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct.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...