Powering smart retail with IoT: secure & scalable wireless connectivity

Optimize inventory, enhance customer experiences, and streamline retail operations

Wireless Connectivity for Smarter Inventory Management

Wireless connectivity transforms traditional inventory systems through smart sensors and intelligent tracking devices that operate continuously, even in areas with limited network infrastructure.

By leveraging cellular networks, retailers can gain unprecedented visibility into stock levels, monitor product conditions, and receive instant alerts about inventory changes. This technology empowers businesses to make data-driven decisions, improve operational performance, and deliver a more responsive and customer-centric shopping experience.

Why Choose Blues?

  • Isolated Security Channel

      Cellular IoT provides an isolated and secure channel for retail transactions that operate independently from local Wi-Fi networks, reducing the risk of hacks and data breaches.

  • Uninterrupted Business

      Automatic failover access to multiple radio access technologies ensures there is no downtime for your retail operations, even if one network link fails.

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    Generate Recurring Revenue

      With Notehub, device manufacturers can enable commercial customers with multiple properties to monitor all their systems from a single touchpoint; access to this live data can be charged as a subscription.

  • Reliable Connectivity

      Independence from Wi-Fi means retailers can deploy IoT devices in remote retail locations, large warehouses, or regions with sparse internet coverage, maintaining uninterrupted connectivity for critical business operations.

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    Scale Globally, Simply

      Notecard offers instant connectivity with global cellular networks without changing hardware. This eliminates the need for complex on-site networking hardware and IT configuration.

  • Optimize with Real-Time

      Real-time data gives retailers continuous access to inventory levels, environmental conditions, and customer interactions, enabling businesses to optimize operational efficiency and create more responsive and personalized retail experiences.

Fast-Track Your Remote Monitoring Journey with Blues

Together the Notecard and Notehub provide a robust solution for secure, reliable, and energy-efficient communication between device and cloud.

  • Choose your Connectivity

    Choose from cellular, WiFi, satellite, Lora, or a combination of radio access technologies to wirelessly connect to your device.

  • Build Your Device with Notecard

    When you build your device, include a Notecard. A low-power, system-on-module that enables wireless communication between your device and the cloud.

  • Configure Your Device with Notehub

    Using Notehub, our cloud orchestration layer, you can configure your device and update your device remotely.

  • Securely Access Your Data

    Notecard sends your device data to Notehub using encrypted, off-internet channels. You can access your data as single JSON packets.

  • Use Your Cloud Platform of Choice

    From Notehub, send your data to any major cloud or analytics platform you choose with a low-code implementation.

Why Blues is the Leading IoT Partner for Retail Innovation

Blues is at the forefront of wireless connectivity innovation. Our technology is an all-in-one device-to-cloud connectivity solution that dramatically simplifies the process of developing connected products. By clearing the road of technical complexity, our customers can reduce time-to-market and develop products in days, pilot them in weeks, and scale them in months.

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."

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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