Author: Alison Davis

  • How we ran a virtual summit for 100 people

    How we ran a virtual summit for 100 people

    Learn how team balena designed and ran its annual remote summit for 100 teammates from around the world.

  • Paracosm: mobile 3D mapping with balena.io

    Paracosm: mobile 3D mapping with balena.io

    [https://paracosm.io/] Paracosm [https://paracosm.io]- a division of Occipital [https://occipital.com/] – 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…

  • SENSE: industrial roof monitoring with balena.io

    SENSE: industrial roof monitoring with balena.io

    [https://sense-monitoring.com/] SENSE Monitoring [https://sense-monitoring.com/] 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…

  • Deploy a digital signage application with Screenly OSE and balenaCloud

    ——————————————————————————– Update June 2019: This post has been updated: read the latest version here [https://www.balena.io/blog/deploy-free-digital-signage-software-screenly-ose] ——————————————————————————– This post was written by the team at Screenly [https://www.screenly.io/]- which makes it easy to deploy digital signage applications on the Raspberry Pi. Screenly is used by hundre

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

    Inside the Samsung District [https://www.samsung.com/it/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…

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

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

    [https://www.30mhz.com/] Use Cases: Industrial; Environment Monitoring Headquarters: Amsterdam From pepper growers to port operators- 30MHz [https://www.30mhz.com/] 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…

  • Petrolog: remotely managing oil wells with balena.io

    Petrolog: remotely managing oil wells with balena.io

    [https://petrolog.us/] Use Case: Oil & Gas Headquarters: Houston, TX Petrolog [https://petrolog.us/] 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…

  • Etcher 1.0 is here!

    Etcher 1.0 is here!

    After completing over a million writes- Etcher exits beta with 1.0 release and new CLI edition Today- Etcher [https://etcher.io] graduates from beta and reaches a big milestone: an official 1.0.0 release! Since we first released Etcher [https://balena.io/blog/introducing-etcher/] as an open source tool for writing images across platforms- it’s grown far beyond our expectations. It’s burned…

  • resinOS 2.0 released in production

    As many of you know- we released [https://resin.io/blog/introducing-resinos/] resinOS 2.0 as a standalone open source operating system [https://resinos.io] 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…

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

    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 [https://openrov.com] 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 [https://www.openrov.com/products/trident/] kit. They’ve…