17 posts authored by “Alison Davis”

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How we ran a virtual summit for 100 people

Here at balena, our annual teamwide Summit is the banner event in our calendar year. As a globally distributed team, Summit is when we bring everybody together to build deeper relationships, reflect on how we work, and align on our vision for the future. Past Summits have been held in cities such as Athens and Barcelona and involved flying people from 30+ countries to a single location for a week…

October 06, 2020 / 7 min

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Paracosm: mobile 3D mapping with balena.io

Paracosm, a division of Occipital, specializes in 3D mapping of large scale indoor and outdoor spaces. They've created a handheld 3D scanner called the PX-80 that allows their users to capture the world around them. The PX-80 uses a combination of LiDAR, IMU, and color camera sensors to calculate a user's path through a scene, and then generates a colorized point cloud of that space. Paracosm’s…

February 23, 2018 / 2 min

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SENSE: industrial roof monitoring with balena.io

SENSE Monitoring helps companies track conditions on the flat roofs of steel frame buildings such as warehouses, factories, and large retail facilities. Their IoT product keeps building owners and facility managers informed about the health of critical roof infrastructure and indicates when a structure might need preventive maintenance. S-One, SENSE’s measuring system and accompanying app, are…

January 29, 2018 / 1 min

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Deploy a digital signage application with Screenly OSE and balenaCloud

Update June 2019: This post has been updated: read the latest version here This post was written by the team at Screenly, which makes it easy to deploy digital signage applications on the Raspberry Pi. Screenly is used by hundreds of companies to power thousands of screens around the world. Be sure to check out the video tutorial at the end of the post! UPDATE: Screenly OSE now ships with support…

November 21, 2017 / 5 min

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How Samsung Italy built an access control system with ARTIK and resin.io

Inside the Samsung District in Milan, Italy, members of the sales and product & solutions teams meet with companies to showcase the latest technologies from Samsung. Visiting customers can see the newest and most innovative products in action. The B2B showroom demonstrates, for example, what a digital signage solution might look like when it’s installed in a store, or how collaboration tools could…

August 22, 2017 / 2 min

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Petrolog: remotely managing oil wells with balena.io

Petrolog provides IoT solutions for oil well automation and remote monitoring, helping operators increase production and reduce operating costs. Petrolog’s main product is a POC (pump off condition) controller. The controller detects when a well enters pump off condition, which occurs when the fluid in the well is too low for the pump to lift it to the surface. The POC controller then…

June 13, 2017 / 2 min

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Etcher 1.0 is here!

After completing over a million writes, Etcher exits beta with 1.0 release and new CLI edition Today, Etcher graduates from beta and reaches a big milestone: an official 1.0.0 release! Since we first released Etcher as an open source tool for writing images across platforms, it’s grown far beyond our expectations. It’s burned over a million images and we’ve solved hundreds of issues to improve…

May 12, 2017 / 5 min

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resinOS 2.0 released in production

As many of you know, we released resinOS 2.0 as a standalone open source operating system last fall, with new features designed to improve reliability and performance. We kept resinOS 1.x as the recommended version within the resin.io dashboard as we worked to get 2.0 fully production ready. Now we're happy to announce that the production version of resinOS 2.0 is available from the resin.io…

April 17, 2017 / 8 min

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OpenROV: deploying Docker containers to underwater drones with balena.io

You've probably seen robots and drones on land and in the air, but have you ever seen one under water? OpenROV is creating low cost, highly capable drones that enable anybody to explore the underwater world. After four years of designing and testing, OpenROV is now taking pre-orders for their Trident kit. They've also open sourced their design so that community members can build their own drones…

March 23, 2017 / 1 min

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UP board comes to resin.io

We’re very excited to announce that resin.io now supports the UP board! The UP board is a community-funded board designed for ‘professional makers’ who need a reliable, high-performing device to build and grow their projects. The UP board is x86-based with a Raspberry Pi compatible 40-pin connector. You can read all about the board specs here. Resin.io brings UP users a modern development…

March 15, 2017 / 1 min

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We're at Embedded World this week!

Come see us at Embedded World in Nuremberg this week! We're excited to be demoing resin.io with a couple of partners and announcing support for some new boards. You can find us: With the UP board team at the AAEON booth (Hall 1-310). Keep an eye out for a post announcing support for the UP board later this week. With the KITRA team at the Samsung booth (Hall 3A-317). We'll be releasing support for…

March 13, 2017 / 1 min

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30MHz: real-time environment monitoring with balena.io

From pepper growers to port operators, 30MHz enables businesses to be more productive by monitoring their environments in real time. They provide a full suite of tools for industrial companies to gather metrics from across the physical world and turn them into action. 30MHz’s plug-and-play toolkit is simple to deploy and includes everything you need to quickly roll out a fleet of wireless sensors…

March 01, 2017 / 2 min

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TAPP Case Study

TAPP is eliminating the hassle of payment in bars and restaurants, allowing friends to enjoy their time together without worrying about dividing up the bill. It also allows bars and restaurants to serve groups and gather insights about their customers. TAPP connects a Raspberry Pi-powered device to the point of sale of each participating bar or restaurant. Customers download the TAPP app, add…

February 04, 2017 / 2 min

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Smart Plants Case Study

Smart Plants is enabling remote and autonomous management of critical industrial infrastructure. The company has launched its full-stack, cloud-based ClevAir service to provide remote monitoring, analytics, and optimization for ventilation systems in large industrial buildings, and has plans to expand into other industrial verticals. Smart Plants first came across balena whilst searching for a…

January 25, 2017 / 1 min

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Enerbrain Case Study

Enerbrain believes that buildings are central to sustainable development and is on a mission to make them smarter, healthier and more energy efficient. The company’s products are designed to remotely manage heating, ventilation, and cooling (HVAC) systems in large buildings, which can significantly decrease energy consumption. Enerbain has designed their own hardware, based on balenaOS and 3G…

January 23, 2017 / 2 min

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The Evolution of the Beast Continues

TLDR: the Beast is a single board computer cluster designed as a testing and demo rig for resin.io. We built Beast v1, with 120 Raspberry Pis, back in 2014 and started working on the next iteration, Beast v2, with 144 Raspberry Pis, about a year later. Now we're designing Beast v3 and sharing progress on Gitter! Beast v2 in the wild Weighing in at nearly 150 kg and measuring nearly 2m tall, Beast…

January 06, 2017 / 2 min