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The Blues team attended The Things Conference, the flagship event for LoRaWAN® and Low-Power Internet of Things (IoT) for two inspiring days engaging with partners, industry leaders, and exploring the latest advancements in IoT technology – including the launch of our very own Notecard for LoRa. 

Blues’ Starnote enables device manufacturers to connect to satellite networks using the existing Notecard ecosystem. It represents a blend of cutting-edge technology and user-centric design poised to redefine the boundaries of Satellite connectivity. 

This new collaboration combines the powerful capabilities of Blues’ connectivity solutions with Blynk’s versatile development platform, creating an efficient, streamlined way for developers to build, deploy, and manage their projects.

Blues announced a partnership with Arduino. Together, we launched the Blues Wireless for Arduino Opta, an expansion module that brings Notecard’s wireless connectivity to the Opta PLC.

Discover the current landscape of satellite IoT, its key challenges, and how Starnote’s intuitive design overcomes these challenges.

Learn how wireless harmonization makes it effortless to connect your products to the cloud and transform them into intelligent services.

Visit booth #10770 at CES 2024 to discover how Blues and VROEGH Design are building the future of cloud-connected micro mobility transportation.

Visit booth #10770 at CES 2024 to discover how Geocene and Blues are bringing the next generation of cloud-connected sensors to life.

Learn how Blues’ cloud-connected Notecard and Notehub are poised to transform the healthcare landscape as we know it.

Blues announced an expansion to our line of Notecards to cover a range of connectivity technologies within an interchangeable, harmonized ecosystem.

It is common to have EVSE operators manage the connectivity provider and even cloud instance. With many new operators entering the market, especially smaller scale operations, time is of the essence.

The foundation of a successful charging infrastructure in the EV industry rests on one crucial element: connectivity.

Learn about the major obstacles to IoT development and how to overcome them. Give your IoT initiatives more power for success.

Unleash IoT’s potential for efficiency and productivity in asset management, food tech, and EV energy. Learn about benefits, implementation, and considerations.

Increase sustainability efforts with these ten IoT solutions that enable us to become more informed and connected to the environment.

Optimize your cannabis cultivation process with IoT sensors and analytics from Blues.

There is no one-size-fits-all answer for deciding to build or buy your cellular module. Use this guide to help you make the choice.

Hidden fees in cellular IoT projects, particularly in data routing costs, can jeopardize the project’s success. Here are ways to avoid them.

Notehub JS is designed to get you connected to the Notehub API quickly, and allow you to interact with Notehub.io IoT data in a JavaScript-friendly way.

Blues was joined at CES by customers and partners for an interactive IoT product showcase.

Join us in congratulating the winners of the “Build a Smarter World” contest with Blues and Edge Impulse.

David MacKenzie, 30-year industry veteran and VP of Product Development at Prodigy shares his insights on IoT.

Introducing an industry-first no-code, RTOS-independent firmware update capability.

The award was presented during the 2022 California Heat and Fire Expo. Read why this is such a meaningful win for Blues.

Learn how new improvements to Notehub routes makes it easier than ever to maintain consistent syncing of data between Notecard and your cloud.

Announcing a new version of our small form-factor Notecarrier

Recently the Developer Experience and Cloud Services teams met up to recap, review, and experience a one-day internal hackathon to see what sorts of connected projects we could build in a single day.

Today we’re announcing a new contest in partnership with our friends at Edge Impulse.

After a brief hiatus due to the global pandemic, the in-person ST Technology Tour is back. Blues Wireless has a strong partnership with ST and we are thrilled to be participating as a sponsor for the developer conference in Burlington, MA on Nov. 2, 2022.

Digital transformation project strategies are increasingly built around managing risk. In this post, I introduce some considerations when developing an IoT product.

Some basic Python code can create beautiful, highly customized IoT data visualizations in no time.

The Blues Amplifiers program thanks our most influential and creative developers and gives them a platform to showcase their efforts, reach more people, and shape the future of the Blues Wireless community.

In this post, you’ll learn how to affordably add wireless cellular connectivity to new or existing Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs).

MWC is one of the premier events for businesses across the entire technology and connectivity ecosystem. In this post, I share my thoughts on this year’s themes relative to IoT.

Meet the new Adafruit Feather-compatible Notecarrier.

Sparrow is a developer toolkit that accelerates construction of low-cost, LoRa-based device cluster applications.

LTE connectivity is perfect for off-grid applications. Blues Wireless will be at RE+ Tech with a reliable, low-power cellular IoT connectivity solution.

Get a basic introduction and beginner’s tips for successfully navigating IoT device certification and testing.

Learn how to use the Notecard to ascertain location information via cell tower and/or Wi-Fi access point triangulation, when GPS is unavailable.

Learn how to build an asset tracking solution that can take GPS readings, and send out alerts when the tracker leaves a configured geofence.

Learn how to build a low-cost, cellular-enabled water leak detection device complete with SMS notifications if a leak’s detected.

Smart agriculture operations driven by IoT help improve yield, efficiency, and profitability. Blues Wireless will be at Tech Hub Live with a low-cost and simple IoT connectivity solution.

Learn about the new Notecard balenaBlocks, and how to use them in balena projects.

Learn what wireless IoT connectivity means, what options to consider, how to implement them, challenges you can expect, and how to solve for them.

Clean Earth Rovers is deploying autonomous vehicles to clean up coastal waterways. Learn more about their work and how you can help.

Learn how to build a globally-available power outage detector with a Cellular Notecard.

Raghu discusses 3 potential IoT Use Cases within the context of the 2022 ILTA International Operating Conference & Trade Show

Follow this simple tutorial to learn how you can create your own custom dashboard using Node-RED with data extracted from Notehub.

See how the IoT can benefit the aviation industry by making it easy to synch and visualize flight data.

Learn how to add affordable prepaid cellular to an ESP32-based IoT solution.

Learn how to build a device that detects falls, and sends emergency alert messages with location information.

Using the Notecard’s connectivity across 137+ countries, Velvetwire integrates timely cold chain data into its industrial IoT solution to help track global vaccine shipments.

Learn how to use Adafruit.io, GPS, and a Wi-Fi Notecard to map an outdoor space.

Learn how to use Edge Impulse and a Notecard to detect anomalies in elevator operation.

Build a Notecard-powered anti-theft device complete with SMS alerts when movement is detected, for under $100.

We just released a new Notecarrier with Qwiic ports, improved antennas, and a gorgeous black PCB.

American Crane’s CEO is leading digital transformation initiatives with smart crane solutions powered by the Blues Wireless Notecard.

Learn how to build a robust, low-power, global asset tracker with a cellular Notecard and Datacake.

In this webinar we showed how to use low-power cellular IoT in the Raspberry Pi ecosystem.

Check out some of the coolest Raspberry Pi and Blues Wireless-powered IoT projects to date!

Learn JSONata through a series of examples of the language in action

Build your own asset tracker from hardware to software and everything in between.

Build a basic anomaly detection ML model with thermal images using Edge Impulse.

Expand your wireless reach with a 30mm x 35mm System-on-Module that’s compatible with any Cellular Notecard-based design.

Build IoT projects with the Notecard, publish them on Hackster, and get paid!

Blues Wireless was recognized as CES 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree for our new Notecard Wi-Fi IoT SoM.

Learn how to build a low-cost (and low-code) Cellular + GPS enabled IoT asset tracker that can span the entire globe.

Learn To Relax With an IoT Stress Monitor

Learn how building IoT solutions is now possible using C# and ‘tiny’ .NET frameworks.

Follow along as we build a conceptual automated pothole detector with a map-based dashboard. So easy a marketing guy did it.

Learn how Evexia Telehealth is using the Blues Wireless Notecard to keep underserved patients in the Caribbean engaged with healthcare providers.

Learn how to add an affordable cellular option to the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2.

Lessons from the Raleigh Connected Communities Conference.

In this webinar, we looked into some key issues that may arise when you start to scale an IoT project.

Learn how to perform an in-place upgrade of your Raspberry Pi OS from Buster to Bullseye.

Let’s dive into a few ‘hidden’ use cases of cellular IoT like file transfer and remote control.

Learn the basics of how to build and test your first image classification project with Edge Impulse.

The first Long Term Support (LTS) release of our Notecard Firmware is available today.

Notecard and Notehub.io can be used to relay water quality data and send SMS notifications when levels go out of bounds.

You’ll need to overcome 11 different challenges when building your first IoT sensor project. Let’s dig in.

Patients receiving chemotherapy have adverse effect that can lead to hospitalization. Agilix Health provides real-time health tracking to keep patients healthy and at home.

You can build without React or Blues Wireless, but why would you?

45% of fresh flowers grown for U.S. markets don’t make it to market. AgroPatterns is fixing this with software and cellular IoT.

Notecards have now sent more than 20M events to Notehub.io (and beyond)!

Building an IoT product requires skills across a wide range of disciplines. Get it right and you launch a successful product.

Today we’re announcing a new feature for all Airnote owners: an updated dashboard for quickly and easily viewing device readings.

Mobeen Khan explains the 3 elements required to successfully build an IoT project.

Swan is the most extensible Feather-compatible MCU on the market today.

Learn how to use a Raspberry Pi, a Notecard, and a bit of machine learning to detect common household rodents.

Follow a Notecard’s journey to Iceland and set up your own standalone GPS asset tracker with the Notecard and Notecarrier.

Raghu explains the top three IoT Public Safety Use Cases from this year’s FDIC International Conference.

The earth is a large, interconnected system. Let’s take a look at how fires 3,000 miles away can affect Air Quality in Boston.

Learn about a new Notecarrier created by the SparkFun team.

Learn more about using Programmable I/O on the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller.

You can now encrypt Notecard data before it is securely routed to your cloud application.

Within the enterprise, it’s still the developer who drives the ultimate success or failure of an IoT project.

Another de facto advantage of cellular is the utilization of a robust infrastructure that has been built up over decades.

Learn about securely delivering Notecard data to the low-code IoT platform, Datacake.

Gig East is now open as a hub for entrepreneurs, startups, remote workers, and those who value innovation in action.

Let’s examine some of the common (and unexpected) scenarios for when IoT solutions should utilize cellular.

The Gig East Exchange is a hub for everyday entrepreneurs, tech startups, remote workers, and anyone who values innovation in action.

The advantages of cellular IoT go beyond global availability, to security, reliability, and low power consumption.

Tips and tricks for optimizing the power consumption of a Raspberry Pi to make it a candidate for off-grid remote monitoring.

Cellular IoT technologies allow devices to securely connect to a network for transmitting data. Let’s dive into the details!

See how a Raspberry Pi Pico, Twilio, and Notecard can be used in a fun dad joke project on Hackster.

Learn how to securely route data from Notecard to your cloud application with Notehub.io.

Join us on April 21st for a virtual lunch & learn, hosted by Raleigh IoT.

Network connectivity options for IoT projects are endless. Let’s take a critical look and find the best path forward.

In celebration of IoT Day and Earth Day, we’re giving away some Airnotes, and we want you to have one.

Just got your first Notecard? Use our quickstart and in-browser serial terminal to learn the basics.

Our hope is that, over the next decade, we can help connect humanity to the environment around us in the same way that we connected to each other in the last one.

When taken together, the strings of cellular IoT create a developer-hostile environment where complexity rules.

Developers from around the globe are energized, determined, and more excited than ever to build products and solutions for the IoT.

Remote sensing and control shouldn’t be expensive or complicated. With just a few lines of code, anything can be cloud-connected. This changes every thing.