Smart things as a service
- Bring your IoT devices to market in the blink of an eye with SMART START
- Focus on your apps, we handle the rest
- Fast to market, low risk, and scalable
Canonical offers full-service enablement, customisation and development to get your first device to market. App store and security updates guaranteed.
Fast to market
Lead time to ship a smart product can be as short as 2 weeks. We have all the components ready for you to pick.
Agile
Start small with up to 1000 devices. Invest a small budget. Move fast, get market insights early and take the next steps.
Scalable
Expand after your market introduction. More customers, more devices, new hardware, new apps.
Launched with SMART START
Industrial gateway
Digital medical diagnostic device
V2X infrastructure
Shop floor data collector
Health monitoring kiosk
Networking equipment
Simple choices
We've standardised and accelerated your journey to market.
Boards
- Certified x86 boards (Intel NUC family and more)
- Certified Raspberry Pis (Compute Modules and derivatives)
- All peripherals supported
- CI/CD pipeline integration
Apps
- App embedding
- Strict application isolation for security
- Tamper-proof containerisation
- Automatic OTA updates
App store
- Private branded IoT app store included
- Secured, hosted and managed
- Global CDN for software delivery
- CI/CD pipeline integration
Software updates
- Choose suitable update frequency
- Automatic roll-backs on failure
- Metered billing
- Single secure source of updates
Services
- Knowledge transfer workshops
- On-demand training content
- Engineering consulting
Support
- After-sales support
- Ticket resolution
- Long term commercial partnership
Ubuntu is pervasive in business and has a rich ecosystem of partners to accelerate time to market and time to value for organizations that choose to utilize SMART START.
Flexible add-ons
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Hardware enablement
Bring up Ubuntu Core in any hardware
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Secure boot
Secure the boot chain for your devices
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Full disk encryption
Secure data at rest for privacy and confidentiality
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High-availability Kubernetes
Build resilience into your appliance
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Kernel livepatch
Zero downtime for Kernel updates
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FIPS certification
Meet federal Information Processing requirement
