Blog posts tagged
"smart home"

17 posts

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
6 June 2024

A look into Ubuntu Core 24: Your first Linux-powered Matter device

Article Internet of Things

Welcome to this blog series which explores innovative uses of Ubuntu Core. Throughout this series, Canonical’s Engineers will show what you can build with this Core 24 release, highlighting the features and tools available to you.  In this third blog, Farshid Tavakolizadeh, engineering manager from our Industrial team,...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
6 June 2024

Nathan Hart
10 July 2023

An introduction to smart home business models

Article Ubuntu

Smart homes are changing. A modern smart home typically isn’t a self-contained, set-it-and-forget-it, custom installation. It’s a hyper-connected set of devices that work together to automate and enhance the users’ living space. Today’s smart homes contain devices from many manufacturers, running dozens of protocols,...

Nathan Hart
10 July 2023

Nathan Hart
11 May 2023

Matter on Ubuntu: getting started with the standard for smart home devices

Article Internet of Things

Canonical joined the Connectivity Standards Alliance last year to lead the charge for Linux in the smart home. The Matter standard is a particular focus for us. Its secure design and open ecosystem align well with Ubuntu’s own values of security and openness. Ubuntu Core and Matter make for a powerful pair. Ubuntu...

Nathan Hart
11 May 2023

Nathan Hart
5 January 2023

Security in the smart home: considerations for device makers

Article IoT

When people think of home security they usually think of an alarm system with a keypad next to the door. These days, however, home security should have two meanings. I’m here to talk about the second: cybersecurity. In other words, security in the smart home. A recent investigation found that a shocking number of leading

Nathan Hart
5 January 2023

Nathan Hart
25 October 2022

Two approaches to IoT prototyping

Engineering Ubuntu

Taking a new device from an idea to production readiness can be a challenge. Hacks or workarounds can help you deliver a proof of concept, but they can negatively impact production devices. A development kit can be great for quickly proving out an idea, but oftentimes the hardware constraints will be more stringent in...

Nathan Hart
25 October 2022

Canonical
30 September 2022

Meet Canonical at IoT Tech Expo

Article Internet of Things

Santa Clara, USA October 5-6 2022 IoT Tech Expo is almost here! With 250+ speakers, 5,000+ attendees and dozens of sessions dedicated to IoT in the enterprise and transformational IoT and 5G, it will be an impactful gathering. Join Canonical there to discuss our IoT solutions with our experts on-site. Learn about Linux...

Canonical
30 September 2022

Canonical
21 September 2022

Canonical joins the Connectivity Standards Alliance

Article Internet of Things

Canonical will help set new security and reliability standards for IoT September 21st, 2022 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces today that it has joined the Connectivity Standards Alliance as a participant member. In this role, Canonical will help the alliance to develop open standards for the Internet of...

Canonical
21 September 2022

Nathan Hart
13 September 2022

Home Assistant tutorial on Ubuntu Core

Article Ubuntu

Install Home Assistant and create a motion-activated light automation with this tutorial Key Value Summary Install Home Assistant and create an automation Categories Smart Home, Ubuntu Core Difficulty 3 Author [email protected] Overview In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to install Home Assistant on Ubuntu Core,...

Nathan Hart
13 September 2022

Nathan Hart
29 March 2022

The Evolution of the Smart Home: Future Predictions [Part 3]

Article Internet of Things

In blogs one and two of this series, we covered how far we’ve come from the earliest smart homes, including older technologies and standards, and smart-home ideas that covered the gamut from innovative to total head-scratchers. We also covered the smart home landscape today, and what developments are on the immediate...

Nathan Hart
29 March 2022

Nathan Hart
25 March 2022

The Evolution of the Smart Home: Current Trends [Part 2]

Article Internet of Things

In part one of this series, we covered how far we’ve come from the earliest smart homes, including older technologies and standards, and smart home ideas that covered the gamut from innovative to total head-scratchers. We also talked about the DIY movement in the present day and the role of open source in the smart

Nathan Hart
25 March 2022

Nathan Hart
24 March 2022

The Evolution of the Smart Home: How it Started [Part 1]

open source Internet of Things

A brief history Smart home technology has long been the subject for futurists predicting robot butlers and the like. While we may not have “The Jetsons” style tech available to us just yet, smart home technology has come a long way in recent years. Let’s take a look back at the journey of smart home

Nathan Hart
24 March 2022

Amrisha Prashar
5 January 2017

IoT predictions for 2017

Article Internet of Things

Big movements took place in the space of IoT last year from voice-controlled home assistants to block chain solutions. As we enter 2017, Maarten Ectors has put together predictions across the IoT ecosystem that will shape the way industries interact with the online world. We saw big movements in the space of IoT last year

Amrisha Prashar
5 January 2017

April Wang
22 December 2016

The 4th China Mobile Global Partner Conference Forum

Article Internet of Things

China Mobile units 24 industry leaders forming the Digital Home Cooperation Alliance Canonical attends the partner conference and becomes a member of the alliance The 4th China Mobile Global Partner Conference took place on the 18th December 2016 at the 17,000 square meters Pazhou Poly Plaza in Guangzhou, this four-day...

April Wang
22 December 2016

April Wang
7 December 2016

Jamming with Ubuntu Core

Article Desktop

We celebrated the launch of Ubuntu Core 16 hackathon, or shall we say Snapathon, that took place in Shenzhen between 26-27th November. The 30+ hour gathering and coding session was attended by developers, makers and anyone that was interested in the Internet of Things and the technology that powers them. Attendees were...

April Wang
7 December 2016

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