Internet of Things archives
11 posts from April 2017
ROS production: obtaining confined access to the Turtlebot [4/5]
By Kyle Fazzari, 27 April 2017
This is the fourth blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a snap of our prototype, and released it into the store. In...
Canonical joins EdgeX Foundry to help unify IoT edge computing
By Sarah Dickinson, 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...
ROS production: our prototype as a snap [3/5]
By Kyle Fazzari, 21 April 2017
This is the third blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we came up with a simple ROS prototype. In this post we’ll package that...
FTC and D-Link
By Guest, 19 April 2017
This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Anyone who...
Industrial IoT: manage and control remote assets
By Guest, 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 ubuntu-devices@canonical.com...
ROS production: our prototype [2/5]
By Kyle Fazzari, 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, 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, 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, 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Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct.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, 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, 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...