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Drive Efficiency, Safety, and Reliability in Modern
Transportation and LogisticsWhether your goal is to optimize fuel use, prevent equipment failure, ensure cargo integrity, or monitor asset use across the planet, Blues helps you deploy faster, generate real bottom line impact, and create happy customers.
Three Critical Challenges for Smart Connected Products in Transportation and Logistics
Building connected products for Transportation and Logistics means solving problems most product manufacturers never encounter. Your products don't operate in static, controlled settings; they're constantly moving through potentially difficult and hazardous environments. Success requires connected solutions purpose-built for these real-world conditions.
Patchy Network Coverage
Devices must maintain reliable connectivity as vehicles travel from urban areas with strong cellular coverage to remote regions that can sometimes have limited infrastructure. Seamless roaming and fallback across networks, wireless technologies, and geographies is essential.
Unreliable Power
Many connected products for Transportation and Logistics must operate where power is limited, intermittent, or completely unavailable. Prolonged running on energy scavenged when available becomes a core technical requirement, making ultra low power design a must.
Field Deployed Assets
Connected products deployed in Transportation and Logistics are usually widely dispersed in harsh conditions, making it difficult to maintain or upgrade them when problems are identified or requirements change. Having to wait for assets to return home for service isn’t an option.
Purpose-Built for Transportation and Logistics
Blues enables you to deploy with confidence, knowing your smart connected products will perform reliably wherever your customer’s fleet operates.
Maintain Continuous Visibility
With Blues' multi-RAT connectivity, your connected products automatically switch between cellular and satellite to maintain uninterrupted visibility. Ensure cargo integrity, deliver accurate ETAs, and respond immediately to impending equipment failures—wherever your customer’s fleet operates.
Designed for the Field
Blues’ ultra low power design lets your connected product operate reliably in challenging power environments. Our secure, three-tier OTA updates let you upgrade as needed, minimizing costly service in the field. Reduce total cost of ownership and avoid the expense of premature hardware refreshes.
Seamless Global Coverage
Blues connects your products across 140+ countries without carrier negotiations, multiple SIM cards, or complex roaming agreements. Deploy once and operate everywhere, maintaining uninterrupted data flow for your customers' international operations.
Take Your Next Step
Whether you own the business, product, tech stack (or all three!), we're ready to chat or to help you dive right in.
Use Cases
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Differentiate Your Products with Always-On Connectivity
Almost 50% of fleet managers report losing track of their vehicles or distributed assets on a monthly basis. Learn how you can deliver a competitive advantage to your customers with embedded smart connected products that seamlessly converge cellular and satellite technologies to ensure assets stay connected anywhere they go.
Why Customers Love Us
By using the Blues platform, we saved about 12 months of R&D time, getting us to market about a year sooner.
Jamie Fox
Director, Technology and CRM
I like working with Blues because it solves several very important problems for me that I no longer have to worry about.
Danny Wilson
Founder and CEO
Since integrating the Notecard. Our operational runtime is extremely high - you can almost say it's never down.
Bill Kezele
President
You could have a whole department to keep devices running—or you can hire Blues.
Rob Wurth
CEO
Blues aligns perfectly with our own mission to transform industries through cutting-edge technology.
David Mackenzie
VP of Product Development
We now forecast a 10X factor in cost savings for our smart crane system. Blues provides lower up-front costs than a traditional system.
Karen Norheim
President and CEO
Start Building Today
Get started, build your proof of concept using a Blues Starter Kit, ready-made example application, and our developer resources.
Buy a 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.
Choose an Example Application
Clone a working example—from vehicle telemetry monitoring to cargo tracking—and start seeing your device data flow into Notehub.
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.
Take Your Next Step
Whether you own the business, product, tech stack (or all three!), we're ready to chat or to help you dive right in.
FAQs
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 MinSpin program. Whether you're building a prototype or scaling to thousands of devices, Blues can help streamline the entire development lifecycle.
Yes. With Starnote, 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, Wi-Fi, 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.
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 MinSpin 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.