11 posts authored by “Marc Pous”

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Use the MING stack to accelerate your IoT application development

Last week I received my 100W solar panel, a charge controller, and a power inverter. My goal was to get the information coming from the charge controller into a Raspberry Pi. My engineer's mind was telling me that I should create a service that could pull the data from the controller and visualize it on a nodeJS dashboard. However, some time ago the balena Ambassador, Alex Lennon, contacted me to…

May 15, 2023 / 11 min

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Scale your Industrial deployment with IIoT Edge Gateways Managed by HiveMQ and balena

Scaling an industrial IoT project across multiple sites can be a challenging task. The most repeated question we get is how to digitize a factory, followed by how to scale from one to multiple sites. Balena’s mission is to reduce the friction for device owners who need to manage massive amounts of devices. Find here how to expand your industrial deployment with IIoT edge gateways managed by…

April 18, 2023 / 15 min

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Industrial IoT Edge Gateway reference architecture using MING with HiveMQ and balena

In this blogpost, we are going to describe a reference architecture for deploying an open-source Industrial IoT edge gateway. This pretends to be a reference application that you can clone and deploy to accelerate the digitalization of your industry. With this Industrial IoT gateway running on the edge you can augment any industry and digitalize the plant floor, acquire data from multiple sources…

March 30, 2023 / 14 min

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Meet balena at the Embedded World 2023

Come see us at Embedded World 2023 in Nuremberg this week! We're excited to be there speaking and showing balena with some partners. Where you can find balena? You can find us on the Embedded World floor visiting our partners such as Seeed Studio, Soracom or Blues Wireless. If you want to meet us feel free to fill this form here to schedule a meeting. Alternatively meet us on our speaking…

March 13, 2023 / 1 min

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Legacy to digital factory using MQTT, InfluxDB, NodeRED and Grafana with balena

Factories and industries which have been manufacturing for many years can benefit significantly from digitalization. Digitalization is related to the use of digital technologies to improve operations, increase efficiency and visibility, among others. As you can imagine, one of the most used technologies in the digitalization process are computers and the Internet. Nowadays, computers and the…

February 08, 2023 / 12 min

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How to set up Blues Wireless to backup sensor data on Raspberry Pi using balena

In this post, I’ll introduce Blues Wireless, and how to use it as a backup method of connectivity with embedded devices, like Raspberry Pis. We’ve packed the power of Blues Wireless into a balena Block so that any edge developer can add it to a fleet and provide extra connection redundancy to your devices. Set up Blues Wireless as a backup connectivity method for your balena fleet We’re all used…

June 15, 2022 / 7 min

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Connect a Seeed Soil and Temperature sensor with your balena Helium Data-Only Hotspot on Datacake

In another blog post, we showed you how to build a Helium Data-only hotspot using balenaCloud. Here’s a way to add a practical gardening use case to the hotspot: monitoring the temperature and moisture level of plants outside (while mining a small amount of $HNT depending on the type of equipment you use!). Adding the sensors to monitor the garden One of the main problems in my garden is that the…

May 26, 2022 / 8 min

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Build your Helium Data-Only Hotspot with balena

In previous posts, we covered different ways to build a LoRaWAN gateway connected to The Things Stack (the former The Things Network (TTN)). In this post, we’ll show you how to deploy a fleet of Helium data-only hotspots on Raspberry Pi and Seeed WM1302 LoRa concentrators (SX1302). Learn how to build a Helium hotspot with balena and Seeed Helium is a crowdsourced LoRaWAN network running on…

April 22, 2022 / 9 min

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Run your private The Things Stack network server on a Raspberry Pi with balena

Use this guide to learn how to build a standalone LoRaWAN server solution that runs on a Raspberry Pi and balena. This solution uses The Things Stack LoRaWAN Network Server Open Source Edition and you can run it with one click. Running it using containers on balena means that it can run alongside with other services such as the balena LoRaWAN BasicsTM Station gateway. As a result, you can have…

August 13, 2021 / 11 min

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How to classify socks using a Raspberry Pi, Edge Impulse, and balena

We’re going to create a project on a Raspberry Pi with a Camera that distinguishes between socks using the Edge Impulse Machine Learning system running on balena. We all know that matching socks is a nightmare, so having an affordable, intelligent system saying if a sock matches with another sock is the best weekend project ever. Use AI on a Raspberry Pi with Edge Impulse and balena to determine…

September 14, 2020 / 11 min

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Deploy a LoRa Basics™ Station gateway with TTN and balena

In the past we have showed how to deploy a The Things Network (TTN) LoRa gateway with balena, and how to build an outdoor TTN LoRa gateway with balenaFin. In this blogpost, you will learn how to deploy a The Things Network (TTN) v2 and The Things Stack v3 LoRaWAN gateway running the newest Semtech Packet Forward protocol, the LoRa Basics™ Station. build a LoRa Basics Station with balena This…

July 22, 2020 / 13 min