We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with the Azure IoT team at Microsoft for reference integration of Mender, an end-to-end open source OTA software update manager for IoT products. Microsoft Azure IoT is a secure, open and scalable cloud platform to connect, monitor, and control billions of IoT assets.

In developing today’s Internet of Things (IoT) products, support for both analyt...

In today’s connected embedded device market, driven by the Internet of things (IoT), a large share of devices in development are based on Linux of one form or another. When planning a system design for beyond the prototyping phase, things get a little more complex. On this recently published article on opensource.com, Mender’s Drew Moseley covers mechanisms to consider when developing and mainta...

In embedded Linux development, there are two approaches when it comes to what operating system to run on your device. Either build your own distribution (with tools such as Yocto/OpenEmbedded-Core, Buildroot etc.) or you use a binary distribution where Debian and derivatives are common.

It is common to start out with a binary distribution. This is a natural approach as this is a familiar enviro...

We are very excited to announce Mender Hub: a community-supported repository to enable OTA updates on any board and OS. Our goal is to create the world’s largest repository to enable a secure and robust OTA update process for connected devices. Please join us today and be part of writing the history in securing the world’s connected devices.

There is no out-of-the-box update solution for the...

View our 2 minute video explaining the challenge of updating devices remotely and why Mender should be considered over building your own update mechanism: