Buddy Platform CEO Dave McLauchlan has joined forces with City of Adelaide CIO Peter Auhl to submit a panel idea to next year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. Panel ideas are now open to the public for voting, so please cast your vote here. SXSW is a unique series of festivals focused on … Continued
In the hospitality and tourism industry, the customer experience is paramount. When experience and atmosphere is your core product, you want to do everything you can to make it as rich and immersive as possible. Often, creating these experiences relies on lush landscapes, stunning displays and environmental comfort for guests. These lean on ample power, … Continued
As Kermit The Frog famously said, “It isn’t easy being green”, and today following the decision of the US Federal Government, we find that to be true. We are unapologetic environmental enthusiasts here at Buddy Platform, we love that we’re helping to preserve our precious resources by making cities more efficient. So, when learning today … Continued
In January of 2016, Facebook announced that they were going to shut down the world’s most popular mobile backend as a service (mBaaS) – Parse.com. An mBaaS is a product that provides a lot of the cloud-based functionality that many mobile apps require – as distinct from the functionality found on the device itself. For … Continued
Since announcing Buddy Ohm in Sydney on March 21st, we have fielded a number of questions, and met with many prospects in the U.S., and here across Australia. We couldn’t be more excited about the potential for a complete resource monitoring system like Buddy Ohm. Our conversations with early customers only validates the real opportunity for Buddy … Continued
The Internet of Things Consortium recently included a short roundtable on smart cities, asking member organizations to share their thoughts on the current state, and future of smart city initiatives. Of course, Buddy Platform is right in the thick of it, building the next generation in data infrastructure that will power these projects all … Continued
Ninety seven percent of climate scientists agree that the earth has been getting warmer over the past century and that is very likely caused by human activity. Careful study of ice cores, tree rings, ocean sediments, and coral formations prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that the increase in carbon dioxide is linked to … Continued
Earlier today, the Buddy Platform team unveiled Buddy Ohm a simple, complete and low cost solution for monitoring the consumption of electricity, gas, water, steam and solar power generation, called Buddy Ohm. The new product helps accurately measure the consumption of these resources in buildings, government facilities, and public infrastructure, helping managers, occupants and citizens get … Continued
Mobile World Congress (MWC) is one of the largest and most important technology trade shows in the industry, and its scope and breadth of topics continues to grow year over year. Buddy Platform has participated in MWC for a number of years, exhibiting as part the Washington State Department of Commerce’s Choose Washington stand. We couldn’t be more proud to represent … Continued
With just less than two weeks to go until Facebook’s Parse service is shut down, developers and marketing departments are urgently looking for alternative hosting options for their mobile applications. But you’re not in this alone! Buddy staff can help ease this transition with complete documentation and help-desk-level support when needed. If this is your first … Continued
Having self-hosted Parse Server ‘buyer’s remorse’? We have found that a number of customers have gone down the path of standing up their own instance of the open-source Parse Server upon which Parse on Buddy is based. But, they’ve run into a couple of deal-breaking issues: The open-source Parse Server has a host of missing features. … Continued
Recently I had the opportunity to attend the 2016 Smart City Summit in Boston. I estimate nearly 300 participants including a host of municipalities, infrastructure providers, professional services organizations, and partners like Buddy Platform were in attendance. It was very encouraging to see a number of city infrastructure Internet of Things (IoT) projects underway, not … Continued
Have you heard? Facebook’s Parse service is shutting down! Of course you have, at least if you have been following activity here at Buddy for any length of time. Every day that passes, the reality of Parse’s shutdown is landing with app owners and managers around the world, and we have been working with many … Continued
Earlier today in Adelaide, South Australia Buddy Platform CEO, David McLauchlan presided over the Annual General Meeting (AGM), in addition to providing an update on the business, and areas of focus for the company. For anyone that has questions regarding the AGM or the business update, please send a note to [email protected]
With the show coming to a close, I thought it would be good to share how things went, and pull out some trends we heard after talking with over 1000 show attendees passing through the Buddy Platform booth over two days. IoT World Europe is a smaller show than the event hosted in Santa Clara, … Continued
Time is running out As some of you know, Facebook is shutting down their Parse service on January 28th, 2017, leaving less than three months for developers to find a new, long term mobile backend. That’s why we’re excited to share our scalable, fully hosted, and fully featured Parse on Buddy service is now available. … Continued
This week the City of Adelaide, South Australian Department of State Development, and the Smart City Studio in partnership with Buddy Platform, unveiled The Connected Adelaide Model (CAM). The model was constructed with over 30,000 LEGO bricks and typical smart city devices and sensors, all tied into Buddy Platform to process and visualize data in … Continued
Today at our headquarters in Adelaide, South Australia we hosted an Extraordinary Shareholder meeting to provide some updates and formally vote on two resolutions put before shareholders. It was a great opportunity to get a clear view of where Buddy is heading, so if you missed the webinar and teleconference, we’ve posted it below for … Continued
Earlier today we issued some updates on the transactions to acquire Zentri and Noveda Technologies. It’s safe to say the Zentri transaction didn’t come together like I, or many others on the team expected. But even with that, we remain really excited about our opportunity to advance existing and new business through our pipeline. First … Continued
Our Experience at the Peggy Smedley Institute Event – IoT platform growth Our CEO, David McLauchlan spoke at the Peggy Smedley Institute this last Friday in sunny San Diego addressing the rise of IoT platforms and the top four capabilities you should consider when evaluating a platform solution. During our session, we demonstrated a real-time … Continued
