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Blog posts tagged
"smart home"

Nathan Hart
10 July 2023

An introduction to smart home business models

Ubuntu Article

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, interfacing with mult ...

Nathan Hart
11 May 2023

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

Internet of Things Article

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 Core’s containerisation ...

Canonical
21 September 2022

Canonical joins the Connectivity Standards Alliance

Internet of Things Article

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 Things (IoT) and advo ...

Nathan Hart
13 September 2022

Home Assistant tutorial on Ubuntu Core

Ubuntu Article

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, then create a motio ...

Nathan Hart
29 March 2022

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

Internet of Things Article

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 horizon. Here, we’ll ...

Nathan Hart
25 March 2022

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

Internet of Things Article

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 ...

Amrisha Prashar
5 January 2017

IoT predictions for 2017

Internet of Things Article

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 ...

Maarten Ectors
15 September 2016

The future of your smart home

Internet of Things Article

You can’t hide from the Internet of Things [IoT] any more. IoT is mentioned in the press almost weekly now, if not daily. Even your grandmother is talking about IoT. Smart thermostats, devices that listen to and understand you, buttons you push to get products delivered, smart televisions, fridges, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, drone ...

Thibaut Rouffineau
31 May 2016

Snaps on NAS: IOT apps for your private network

Desktop Article

QNAP selects snaps and Ubuntu to bring IOT apps to its NAS On Friday QNAP announced that they were adopting snaps as the application format of choice for their NAS going forward. Behind this decision are two factors, the ease of development of snaps and the universality of snaps, especially to create IoT applications. NAS ...