104 posts tagged with “balena”

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Refactoring Our Mission Statement

For several (transformative) years, balena’s mission has been to 'unlock the potential of physical computing by removing friction from fleet owners'. This mission served as a north star, driving our efforts to make a significant impact on the friction encountered by developers and businesses across the globe whilst working on IoT and edge computing challenges in the real world. We are incredibly…

May 17, 2023 / 3 min

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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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Recent organisational changes at balena

Balena has been going through a period of change over the past year. The most notable is a change of leadership at the company with Alexandros Marinos stepping down from the role of CEO and moving into an advisory position in the company's board of directors. In his place three of us from the balena team: Chris Crocker-White, Konstaninos Mouzakis and Phil Wilson have stepped up to form the Office…

March 21, 2023 / 3 min

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Creating an IoT marketplace and launching Fleets for Good

Today we’re launching a big update to balenaHub, creating a marketplace to find and share resources for IoT building products and services. Alongside, we’re launching Fleets for Good (formerly open fleets), our way of sharing our technology to enable users who want to use our platform for a good cause. balenaHub rebrand Back in November 2020 we launched the first iteration of balenaHub. Then in…

March 01, 2023 / 5 min

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balenaCloud pricing changes and credits: let us explain

Recently, we added the ability to purchase credits for balenaCloud, and today we’re announcing changes to our pricing effective on March 8th, 2023. Let us explain these changes, our thinking behind them, and look at how they may affect you. A reminder: balenaCloud credits Last week, we launched a brand new feature to balenaCloud, allowing you to purchase credits upfront at a discount to reduce the…

February 06, 2023 / 6 min

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Save with balenaCloud by pre-purchasing device credits

Today we’re announcing a brand new feature within balenaCloud, allowing you to pre-purchase balenaCloud credits upfront, providing a discount and reducing the overall cost of running your fleet. If you can anticipate your future usage and growth on the platform, you can now pre-purchase credits (device-months) up-front, and receive a discount based on the quantity you purchase. These credits are…

February 01, 2023 / 1 min

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Meow Wolf: Running smart art exhibitions with balena

Technology has opened many doors, and the art world has taken notice. Meow Wolf is a collective of artistic creators using groundbreaking technology to create unique and breathtaking artistic experiences empowered by IoT. Meow wolf art installation using balena devices Who are Meow Wolf? Founded in 2008 in New Mexico, Meow Wolf operates interactive art experiences in Santa Fe, Denver, and Las…

January 04, 2023 / 3 min

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balena monthly roundup - September 2022

BalenaEngine is a fork from Moby Project, which deprecated the use of the aufs storage driver with the 19.03.x release series. Because of this balenaOS is also looking to deprecate the use of AUFS. Read more about this and how it might affect your devices in our latest blog. Also in this month's email: Two new IoT project tutorials Find out which events we’re attending this month New Fleets and…

September 16, 2022 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - August 2022

You might remember that a little while ago we renamed balenaCloud “applications” to Fleets. This month we surfaced a new concept on balenaHub and balenaCloud: Apps. Apps are a response to a specific use case, built out of many services or balenaBlocks, and are self-contained, doing only their job on a single device. Read more about Apps and the road to multi-app on our blog. Also in this month's…

August 11, 2022 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - July 2022

balenaOS is now (since v2.85) available in a single unified image that can be configured at runtime for development or production mode. We’re moving on from maintaining both development and production images to reduce operational overhead as well as giving us a better understanding of how our users would manage an image in production. Instead, you can now access development mode via runtime…

July 12, 2022 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - June 2022

This month, balenaForums member bversluijs shared his expertise on using openbalena to manage fleets and to prototype ideas. In his blog post he teaches you how to use an external AWS S3 provider for openbalena instead of using the integrated Minio S3 container. Check out the whole tutorial here. Also in this months email: Connect a Seeed sensor to monitor your garden Bring your model railroad…

June 14, 2022 / 5 min

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Reducing friction in balena device support with our heuristic diagnostics parser

Every six months or so, our company takes a break from most of our normal activities to engage in a “Hack Week,” a week of working on a project completely outside of our day-to-day tasks. People form small teams and work on projects around a common theme, and embark on a friendly competition for bragging rights, swag, and the potential to finalize their product for the masses to use. Hack Week…

June 09, 2022 / 10 min

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Bring your model railroad to life with LED, movement, and sound automation using balena

Many model railroad enthusiasts have basements filled with photo-realistic layouts or join clubs with amazing cities and yards. I’m not an enthusiast, but a few years ago I pulled out an old Lionel set I had as a kid and thought a new paint job could make it look less plasticy. I’ve never built a layout (nor would I have room for a large one) but occasionally I’d send a train around a loop or…

June 07, 2022 / 13 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