Category: AB Open

News and updates on developments at AB Open.

Six Years of Progress in Open Source Mobile Infrastructure

A look at open source cellular progress over the past six years and more recent developments which suggest that a bright future lays ahead. Six years ago today The H – Open published an article I wrote entitled, Building a GSM network with open source. In this I covered… Read More

Ground Electronics Unveils the Circumference Pi Cluster

Ground Electronics, AB Open’s manufacturing division, today unveils a new “datacentre-in-a-box” platform targeting software development, testing, and education: the Raspberry Pi-powered Circumference. Presented to the public for the first time today ahead of a crowdfunding campaign launch in the coming weeks, Circumference is designed to offer all the functionality of… Read More

Flood Network Partners with AB Open on River Level Sensor Initiative

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Five smart sensors to be installed in Calder Valley for citizen-science flood monitoring project. Halifax, UK, 26th September 2017 — Open-source and technical communities consultancy AB Open and citizen science initiative Flood Network have jointly announced their partnership to install Internet of Things (IoT) river level sensors… Read More

Wuthering Bytes 2017

With Gareth on vacation there’s no Community Round-Up this fortnight, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to provide a rundown on what we have in store for the annual Wuthering Bytes technology festival — running over 10 days again! — that will get off to a start in… Read More

Microchip Technology Partners with AB Open for IoTUK Boost Programme

Halifax, West Yorkshire, 20th June 2017—Open-source and technical communities consultancy AB Open has announced a partnership with Microchip Technology Incorporated as part of the IoTUK Boost project launched by the Digital and Future Cities Catapults. Read More

My Time at AB Open

Over the course of starting intern at AB Open and undertake this project, I’ve learned more here than I did in my whole time in formal education. Well, that might be a slight exaggeration, but only slight. Read More

AB Open Names SME Cohort Participating in LPWAN Technology Programme

Eight businesses selected to participate in IoTUK LPWAN Boost. Halifax, West Yorkshire, 3rd April 2017 — Open-source and technical communities consultancy AB Open has released the names of businesses chosen to participate in a free long-range wireless communications network testbed built with the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M)… Read More

AB Open Invites Calderdale Businesses to Participate in LPWAN Technology Programme

Halifax, West Yorkshire, 31st January 2017—Open-source and technical communities consultancy AB Open has opened a call for businesses in the Calderdale area to participate in a free long-range wireless communications network testbed built with the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) applications in mind, as part of the IoTUK Boost project launched by the Digital and Future Cities Catapults. Read More

IoTUK Boost Partnership

I’m thrilled to be able to share details of an announcement from the Digital Catapult earlier today, confirming that AB Open have been selected as one of six partners to help lead the development of IoT enabled services and applications for UK SMEs and entrepreneurs. Read More

LoRaWAN and Flood Network interview

We were visited recently by DesignSpark — the community guys at RS Components — who came up to talk to us about our work with with LoRaWAN, The Things Network and Flood Network. Following which they went away, worked their magic and managed to produce a video… Read More

A Scanning Electron Microscope… for fun!

Back in April I mentioned that we’d been working on a number of fun projects and one of those involves an early 1980s vintage scanning electron microscope (SEM), which we don’t really have a use for, but sometimes when a bargain — it cost less than you’d pay for… Read More

GNU Tools Cauldron 2016

With GNU Tools Cauldron 2016 taking place on our doorstep it would be remiss of us to not lend our support. As such we are delighted to announce that we are sponsoring the annual developer conference for GCC, GDB, binutils and runtimes etc. This year Cauldron will run over… Read More