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Maarten Ectors

Maarten Ectors

48 posts

VP IoT, NG Networking & Proximity Cloud

Maarten Ectors is responsible at Canonical for Internet of Things, the next-generation of networking and cloud solutions that are in proximity of the user or at the edges of the network. Previously he was strategy director for cloud, big data and IoT. Maarten reports to Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical.

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 ...

Maarten Ectors
15 September 2016

Why open source matters to the IoT market

Internet of Things Article

With everything becoming connected through IoT, security will be key to its success. And the best way to secure a system is to allow anybody to inspect the code and contribute a patch. The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to become a $4-11 trillion market by 2025, contributing 11% to the global economy, ...

Maarten Ectors
26 April 2016

Flying mobile base stations are coming to the UK

Internet of Things Article

EE, the largest mobile operator in the UK and now part of BT, just announced a collaboration with Lime Micro, a leader in the next big phase of open source mobile network technology, and Canonical (Ubuntu) to ensure the UK gets better mobile coverage. EE is heavily investing in getting to 95% geographical 4G coverage ...

Maarten Ectors
7 April 2016

When a projector and app-enabled software-defined radio cross paths

Internet of Things Article

We had a chat with our head of IoT, Maarten, to discover what happens when a projector crosses paths with an app-enabled software-defined radio (limeSDR.org) Below is a list of pretty cool insights when the two cross paths that include talking to drones via hand gestures, hacking into walkie talkies and finding coverage where it ...

Maarten Ectors
23 February 2016

The Internet of Scary Things – #IoScaryT

Ubuntu Article

Your broadband modem is likely vulnerable to critical security bugs that allow hackers to remotely control it and you are at their mercy because your telecom operator is not going to do anything about it. Imagine a connected world with billions of things that are insecure. What should you do? Last Thursday a critical GNU ...

Maarten Ectors
20 January 2016

NFV does not equal Hypervisor

Cloud and server Article

Summary: This blog post will explain why network equipment providers are incorrectly investing in hypervisors to provide network function virtualisation and why Intel bought Altera. The answer is networking. Until recently switches, routers, DSLAMs, mobile base stations, etc. were all using special purpose hardware components called ASICs ...

Maarten Ectors
20 November 2015

The Top 5 Telecom Problems can be Solved

Cloud and server Article

This year’s TAD Summit was a success but it was another sign that telecom operators are more likely to follow Kodak than become the next Google. The future of telecom will look very red, blood red, not Vodafone red, unless telcos start really upping their game. The future looks bad because telecoms have reached their ...

Maarten Ectors
11 November 2015

Canonical Demos the power of IoT to developers with the Samsung ARTIK

Internet of Things Article

Canonical and Samsung will be at this year’s ARM TechCon to show off the power of snappy Ubuntu Core on the Samsung ARTIK 5 and ARTIK 10 modules. The companies will demonstrate how combining Samsung ARTIK and snappy Ubuntu Core results in an easy-to-use development platform for internet-connected devices, enabling developers to lower cost ...

Maarten Ectors
30 October 2015

#InternetOfToys – let the toy battles begin

Internet of Things Article

Wouldn’t it be great to play with toys and get paid for it? If this sounds like music to your ears, then this blog post is for you. If you are a business person who thinks toys are just child’s play, then you should read on as well! It’s true that Industrial IoT will generate ...

Maarten Ectors
16 October 2015

PiGlow API: one small snap for humanity…

Internet of Things Article

Victor Palau created a very nice blog post around the PiGlow. With his permission we are reproducing it here. My first steps into snappifying, I have publish a RestApi for PiGlow (glowapi 0.1.2). I though it might be a good first step and mildly useful for people wanting to set up build notifications, twitter mentions, ...

Maarten Ectors
2 October 2015

Canonical launches new ‘#InternetOfToys’ initiative with partners

Internet of Things Article

IoT World: Hybrid, Erle and Canonical combine to commercialize IoT dev ROSCon: Canonical demonstrates power of apps on robots; shows Erle Spider Mark Shuttleworth keynote at ROSCon: secrets to ROS success   Canonical is taking its Internet of Things (IoT) innovation on tour over the few days; bringing a host of new developments to the ...

Maarten Ectors
22 September 2015

Crowdsourcing the #AppEnabledHome: GE, FirstBuild and Canonical

Internet of Things Article

  IoT is changing the home. Soon you will have apps and app stores on any type of home appliance. Earlier this year, GE’s FirstBuild brought to market the first app-enabled fridge. However, before IoT in the home can be mass market some problems will have to be solved first. What apps will people want? ...

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