Kaa and Snappy Ubuntu at Mobile World Congress 2015

Online, March 10, 2015 (Newswire.com) - A couple of months ago, CES 2015 has clearly demonstrated that smart, connected products are gaining ground at a blistering pace. Mobile World Congress 2015 was expected to attest this explosive dynamics of IoT expansion into new industries and consumer markets. Undoubtedly, it did.

Celebrating its 10th year in Barcelona, MWC has once again proven a huge capacity of the IoT field as well as offered a sneak peek at the upcoming IoT developments. This year, MWC featured a startup pitching event called IoT Stars:

“IoT Stars received some 50 IoT startup applications from 22 countries, the jury judged all applications taking into consideration the originality of the idea, the experience and quality of the team, diversity of the sector, the location of the startup, quality of presentation and market potential of the product”

Our recently announced partnership with Canonical has led to an opportunity that we could not miss. On the first evening of the event, our friends at the Ubuntu Core team suggested to host a joint demo at their booth, where they had “the smartest switch in all Barcelona”. This was a rather bold claim, if you take into account the number of network equipment giants which were showcasing their latest and greatest products at Grand Via’s quarter million square meters of floor space. On the other hand, given ultra­convenient transactional application updates and containers available in snappy Ubuntu Core as well as the great volume of compatible software, this claim was a well judged one. Kaa project team was excited to contribute and further reinforce the statement.

In just a few hours, we created a snap package for the Ubuntu Core operated switch which controlled an attached LED board. The message and speed at which the text was printed out were controlled by a Kaa server instance hosted in AWS. We used the configuration management functionality for Kaa C SDK that will become generally available with the upcoming 0.7.0 release.

The demo was very well received by the visitors, thus having proved an enormous potential of our partnership with Canonical. Andrew Kokhanovskyi, CyberVision’s CTO and founder of Kaa, said:

“We are extremely pleased to work with Canonical on shaping the open­source future of the IoT. We enjoy the open­minded, opportunistic spirit of this relationship, and looking forward to presenting some mind­blowing capabilities with the combination of our technologies.”

About Canonical

Canonical is a well­known company for its desktop operating system, used by over 20 million people, but now they are taking care of Ubuntu, a world’s most popular free operating system.
Ubuntu Touch brings the intuitive user experience to smartphones, and is now available as a developer preview. Canonical cloud suite offers a clean, repeatable and manageable stack for anyone deploying private or public clouds. 

 About Kaa Project

Kaa is an open source platform for building and facilitating applications in the realm of Internet of Things. Kaa allows companies to expedite a products’ time­to­market, increase performance, and attract customers/subscribers. Kaa introduces standardized methods for enabling integration and interoperation across connected products. The Kaa IoT platform is licensed under Apache 2.0, and is 100% open source without royalties. Kaa is designed to be robust, flexible, and easy to use and deploy.