From connected HVAC and elevators to water systems and fire panels, commercial buildings demand rugged, future-proof smart connected equipment that helps reduce costs, prevent failures, and improve building performance.
Building smart-connected products for the Commercial Buildings and Facilities sector means navigating complex, potentially aging infrastructure while serving customers who expect reliability but also do not have a high tolerance for installation or operational hassles. Manufacturers must design for environments shaped by restrictive networks, unskilled operators, and legacy systems.
Commercial buildings weren’t designed for IoT. Highly controlled networks, blocked WiFi access, and limited Ethernet mean your products can’t rely on building IT. Connected equipment must work in environments where traditional connectivity is unavailable, restricted, or impossible to use.
Building managers and facility operators aren't IT professionals. They can't troubleshoot connectivity issues, reconfigure devices, or manage complex provisioning. Simple deployment and autonomous operation are essential.
Connected building systems are installed in elevator shafts, behind walls, on rooftops, and in locked mechanical rooms. Physical access for maintenance, troubleshooting, or updates is difficult, expensive, and disruptive. Remote management and over-the-air updates are requirements.
Blues enables you to deploy with confidence, knowing your smart connected products will perform reliably regardless of legacy physical and digital infrastructures.
Blues offers a reliable cellular connection. Your connected building systems work independently of WiFi networks, ethernet infrastructure, and IT departments. Deploy in any mechanical room, elevator shaft, or rooftop without needing to make network access requests or firewall exceptions.
Blues eliminates coordination with building IT staff for installation, troubleshooting, or network changes. Your devices connect immediately upon installation and maintain communication without requiring intervention from buildings and facilities managers.
Blues enables complete remote over-the-air device management. Deploy OTA firmware updates, adjust device configurations, and diagnose issues remotely. Eliminate truck rolls to inaccessible locations and manage your entire building systems fleet from a single dashboard.
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Increase uptime by remotely monitoring the condition of your connected products so you can act before a failure occurs. Data-driven predictive maintenance eliminates costly outages, increases customer satisfaction and boosts everyone's P&L.
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Improve energy management by connecting your products to gain real-time visibility, generate predictive insights, and enable your own automated controls. Reduce energy consumption, improve equipment efficiency and lower costs, while increasing sustainability and meeting compliance needs.
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Eliminate costly and unnecessary truck rolls by connecting your products to deliver real-time visibility into when maintenance or top ups are actually needed, instead of on a fixed schedule. Increase customer satisfaction with proactive, data-driven, perfectly-timed service visits. Learn more about how Blues eliminates unnecessary truck rolls.
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Connect your products to enhance safety and security through continuous monitoring, event detection, and automated alerts. Protect people, vehicles, cargo, and operations. Cost-effectively meet safety regulations and prove compliance. Learn more how Blues enhances safety and security.
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Reduce theft and eliminate spoilage by connecting your products with uninterrupted global coverage, using sensor telemetry and real-time location to protect equipment and inventory. Avoid these preventable and costly losses which disrupt operations. Learn more about how Blues helps reduce theft and reduces spoilage.
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Get started, build your proof of concept using a Blues Starter Kit, ready-made example application, and our developer resources.
Our demo kit in a box. Includes an MCU, carrier board and pre-configured Notecard with your choice of cellular, satellite, LoRa or WiFi.
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Blues makes it easy to connect any IoT device to the cloud in minutes using our Notecard modules and Notehub platform. With just a few lines of JSON, your device can securely send data to the cloud—no complex setup or custom firmware required.
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Our Notecard Cellular is an ultra-low-power, plug-and-play module designed for long battery life and global coverage. It includes 10 years of data and 500MB of usage with no monthly fees or contracts. Perfect for remote, embedded, or battery-operated IoT deployments.
Custom modules like the Notecard XP are also available for large scale deployments and help reduce total bill of materials by using only components your application requires.
Yes! Every Notecard includes 500MB of bundled data that’s good for up to 10 years and has no contracts and no subscriptions. You get predictable pricing and complete cost control, even at scale. Visit our Pricing page to learn more.
Blues handles security for you. Notecards include built-in ECC certificates and use encrypted, off-internet communications to send data to Notehub. You don’t need to manage credentials or certificate renewal.
Blues offers a full ecosystem of Notecards for easy connectivity, and Notecarriers for easy prototyping. We also offer design support through our Design Review Program. Whether you’re building a prototype or scaling to thousands of devices, Blues can help streamline the entire development lifecycle.
Yes. With Starnote for Skylo or Notecard for Skylo, Blues enables satellite connectivity via Skylo for global fallback or primary communication. It’s fully integrated into our API and Notehub so you can switch from cellular to satellite with little or no code changes.
Yes! Our family of Notecard modules support the four main different communication modes: cellular, WiFi, satellite, and LoRa. All of them use the same developer-friendly API so you can switch Notecards without needing to rewrite your application code. Some of our Notecards even support multiple communication modes like our Notecard Cell+WiFi and Notecard for Skylo.
With Notehub, you get built-in fleet management tools: real-time overviews, location mapping, alerts, OTA firmware updates, and device diagnostics. It works at any scale, securely and efficiently.
Through our Design Review and Proof of Concept (PoC) programs, Blues can provide suggestions and feedback for product design, firmware consulting, and manufacturing guidance to help you go from idea to production faster and more cost-effectively.
We also have built a catalog of trusted partners who are skilled experts ready to help you build your connected devices.
