24 posts tagged with “case study”

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Raydiant: The Success Story of Digital Signage Using balena

Raydiant is the leading in-location Experience Operating System, which offers digital signage solutions for physical businesses. They rely on balena to manage and update their devices, ensuring security and performance. This case study delves deeper into Raydiant's experience with balena, exploring aspects such as security, hardware and software interaction, cost savings, customer support, and…

June 15, 2023 / 3 min

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Seeed Studio: The Story of How 200,000 LoRaWAN® Devices Were Deployed in one Year with balenaCloud

Rapid growth typically depends on an ability to scale quickly—from shipping logistics to global distribution and coordination—but these efforts are largely unseen and underappreciated. Seeed Studio understands these challenges intimately, and is ready to share insights about their hugely successful SenseCAP M1 rollout with balenaCloud, including specific thoughts on balena’s built-in scaling…

January 23, 2023 / 6 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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How Lorenz Technology provisions and manages AI drone fleets at scale with balena

Lorenz Technology simplifies security and surveillance using a fleet of AI drones which collect, analyze, and share data in real time. Read on to see how they remove the friction from AI drone fleet maintenance and management using balena. Simplifying how they manage their AI drone fleets Lorenz Technology push boundaries of the security industry with their global fleet of AI-driven drones which…

February 23, 2022 / 2 min

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QVNTRA leverages balena to scale Aging-in-Place IoT solution

The United States Census Bureau shows more than 54 million people were over 65 in the US on July 1 2019, and it’s projected that by 2050, that number will increase to 83.7 million. With a rapidly aging population causing an increase in demand and an ever-shrinking labor market, senior living providers are seeking to scale their resources and services through technology. QVNTRA, an emerging senior…

February 01, 2022 / 4 min

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Infarm uses balena to make farm-to-table work

Sustainably feeding the planet is at the heart of the farm-to-table movement and the motivation behind a new breed of tech companies working to make locally grown herbs and vegetables commercially viable. Balena is there to help. For Berlin-based Farm-as-a-Service company Infarm, the answer to food-to-table farming is remote-controlled microfarms that use edge technology to optimize growing…

September 22, 2020 / 5 min

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Skycatch: navigating at-scale fleet management challenges using balena

Skycatch relies on balena to operate thousands of drones and edge devices that digitally image, process, and map industrial job sites. Learn how balena helps them remove the friction of at-scale device and fleet management so they can focus on serving customers and improve their unique GNSS and imagery platform. About Skycatch Skycatch provides a platform to companies, like Skansa and Komatsu, to…

February 25, 2020 / 3 min

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How Bosch remotely manages and deploys to IoT devices at scale with balena

Learn how Bosch uses balena as part of their IoT fleet management and devops solutions. Bosch is a world leading multinational engineering and electronics company who invests heavily in IoT; developing innovative solutions for smart homes, cities and manufacturing. Part of this research and development is looking for new business approaches in the context of industrial IoT, and in one such…

November 19, 2019 / 2 min

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Keeping a watchful-eye on WiFi and cellular networks in Ghana with balenaCloud

Balena user Sam Moorhouse writes a guest blog post to tell us about how he's using Raspberry Pi devices on balenaCloud to monitor ISP-supplied 4G (cellular) routers in Ghana. His project watchful-eye keeps eyes 👀 on these devices which are used as a fallback connectivity option for his charity project Global Code which runs a summer program each year teaching students in Ghana about the joys of…

May 31, 2019 / 4 min

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Sonder: creating unique hospitality experiences with balena

Sonder is on a mission to become the biggest and most loved hospitality company in the world. From their headquarters in San Francisco, the Sonder team operates a new breed of accommodation rentals; one that offers guests hotel-style luxury with all the design, comfort, and flexibility of a serviced apartment, available in cities across North America and Europe. Their approach is underpinned by…

April 24, 2019 / 2 min

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S O NAH: Pioneering smart city tech with balena.io

S O NAH are pioneering at the forefront of smart city technologies, and are using balena in their work to solve common city problems such as parking, restricted-area detection and traffic analysis (counting and classification). Their first product, S O NAH Parking, is designed to detect empty parking spaces and guide users to their location. S O NAH has developed their own hardware, centred around…

October 11, 2018 / 2 min

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Bitreactive: decentralized sensor management with balena.io

Bitreactive provides assisted living technology solutions for nursing homes and home care. They specialize in decentralized sensor management and edge analytics built around the Continua Design Guidelines, an implementation framework for personal connected devices. Bitreactive's solutions, such as the BALT personal hub, focus primarily on bed monitoring, both for institutions and remote homes…

June 27, 2018 / 1 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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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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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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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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Intale uses resin.io to provide an end-to-end solution for the retail market

Intale develops integrated cloud solutions that connect and unify the retail market for small retail shops and convenience stores. Their POS app doesn't just facilitate transactions but improves the efficiency of all operations, automatically managing stocks and providing unique insights most small businesses are not accustomed to. As a result, communication between small businesses and the rest…

November 09, 2015 / 1 min

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Amazing automated 3D printing with NVBOTS

NVBOTS is a truly progressive approach to a progressive industry. Founders, AJ, Chris, Forrest & Mateo built their first 3D printer while studying at MIT but found that once they got over the initial fascination stage and started using it for practical uses it became practically difficult to manage and use. Multiple users scheduling printing jobs as well as ensuring someone was physically in the…

October 10, 2015 / 1 min

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Figure Devices uses balena to bring customised photos to life

Figure devices creates amazing photobooths bringing technology and elegance to the hands of the users. Benoît, Nicolas and Victorien met while working at a Paris based startup. One day Nicolas retold a story of him and his father building a photobooth for his brother's wedding. Enticed by the idea of creating something of their own as well as the multidisciplinary nature of the project, they quit…

May 28, 2015 / 1 min

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How Pact Coffee uses Raspberry Pis to ship upto 4k coffee packs a day

This is the first in a series of exposés illustrating how our customers have used balena to create great products. This time we sat down with Tony To (CTO) and Sam Levy (Developer) from Pact Coffee to discuss how they are using balena to scale their production lines and eradicate inefficiencies. Pact is a recurring subscription coffee company that sends fresh coffee through the post. They…

April 10, 2015 / 2 min