Power smarter grids with IoT: secure, scalable connectivity for energy management

Enable real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and smarter grid operations with Blues IoT

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Wireless connectivity for real-time energy monitoring

Deploy secure, multi-network connectivity to access smart grid data analytics. These can track critical infrastructure performance, detect anomalies, and prevent outages before they occur, improving energy infrastructure efficiency.

Transform Grid Management with Secure, Scalable IoT Connectivity

Learn how Blues Notecard and Notehub connect your energy grid devices to the cloud, making them smarter and more data-driven.

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    Predictive Maintenance

      Catch equipment issues before they turn into system-wide failures. Together, Notecard and Notehub enable 24/7 monitoring, replacing fixed maintenance schedules with usage-based predictive maintenance.

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    Optimized Energy Efficiency

      Intelligent energy monitoring allows your customers to optimize power usage while maintaining reliable connectivity by instantly responding to changing conditions.

  • ​​Over-The-Air Remote Asset Management​

      Enjoy easy APIs, plug-and-play wireless technologies, and zero-touch provisioning. Leverage world-class engineering across low-power, modems, carriers, certification, device management, and more.

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    Connectivity Flexibility

      Simplify connectivity and protect uptime by adapting to evolving network standards and moving between radio technologies with ease.

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    Scalable Global Coverage

      Expand your monitoring capabilities without compatibility headaches. Our wireless connectivity works across all your equipment types with carrier-agnostic global coverage.

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    Real-Time Grid Monitoring

      Turn raw sensor data into intelligent insights. Notehub provides secure data routing to major cloud platforms. Enabling real-time monitoring and analytics for intelligent grid insights.

Improve grid efficiency with IoT-enabled insights

Be proactive about grid asset management. Transform raw equipment data into actionable insights that reduce operational costs, enable predictive maintenance for energy grids, and improve resource allocation across the power infrastructure.

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    Notecard

    Where Wireless Connectivity Meets Simplicity

    Notecard combines out-of-the-box wireless connectivity, low-power design, and market-leading security into a System-on-Module.

    With Notecard, connect your product using the full spectrum of connectivity technologies including cellular, WiFi, satellite and LoRa, within an interchangeable architecture.

    Its plug-and-play functionality lets you hit the ground running so you can move from prototype to full-scale production in months, not years.

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    Notehub

    Data Mastery to Power Intelligent Applications

    With Notehub, our cloud orchestration layer, routing your data to the cloud has never been easier.

    Treat Notehub as your command-and-control center for secure bi-directional data flow, streamlined provisioning at scale, and intuitive remote asset management.

    It natively supports secure routing to major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, and numerous other cloud platforms — often in a “no-code” implementation.

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Use Cases

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Downtime Prevention

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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Energy Savings

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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Truck Roll Reduction

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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Safety Assurance

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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Loss Prevention

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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Why Customers Love Us

Jamie Fox

Director, Technology and CRM

"By using the Blues platform, we saved about 12 months of R&D time, getting us to market about a year sooner."

Danny Wilson

Founder and CEO

"I like working with Blues because it solves several very important problems for me that I no longer have to worry about."

Bill Kezele

President

"Since integrating the Notecard. Our operational runtime is extremely high - you can almost say it's never down."

Rob Wurth

CEO

"You could have a whole department to keep devices running—or you can hire Blues."

David Mackenzie

VP of Product Development

"Blues aligns perfectly with our own mission to transform industries through cutting-edge technology."

Karen Norheim

President and CEO

"We now forecast a 10X factor in cost savings for our smart crane system. Blues provides lower up-front costs than a traditional system."

Start Building Today

Get started, build your proof of concept using a Blues Starter Kit, ready-made example application, and our developer resources.

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    Starter Kit

    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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  • Choose an Example Application

    Clone a working example—from vehicle telemetry monitoring to cargo tracking—and start seeing your device data flow into Notehub.

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  • Follow Our Getting Started Tutorial

    Go from hardware setup to API calls in under an hour by following our hands-on tutorial, or join our next getting-started session live.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Notehub supports secure, bi-directional routing to leading cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, and more, with all data encrypted end-to-end. To learn more, view our detailed documentation here.

Yes! Our family of Notecard modules support the four main different communication modes: cellularWiFisatellite, 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.

Start building your IoT solutions for smarter energy grids today.

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