Blues, a leader in easy-to-build IoT solutions that improve business operations, reduce costs and decreaseย time-to-market, announced it will expand coverage through a partnership with software company 1NCE. 1NCE and Blues are the only companies offering global, lifetime coverage for IoT devicesย enabling enterprises to develop solutions to challenges facing markets fromย clean energyย to manufacturing toย health care.
1NCE extends the existing cellular coverage of Blues’ Notecard, an easy-to-integrate wireless IoT module. 1NCE’s coverage of 158 countries and regions adds to the 140 countries already covered by Blues’ Notecard product, giving enterprise customers the ability to deploy IoT connected products at a greater global scale.
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“Our partnership with 1NCE extends our customers’ IoT coverage to support testing and product deployments around the world,” saysย Jim Hassman, Blues President and CRO. “Blues customers use our Notecard to tackle important missions, from monitoringย air qualityย to reducingย food waste. Together, 1NCE and Blues support our customers’ ingenuity with our joint commitment to simplicity, enterprise-grade reliability andย scalabilityย inย the cloud.”
Notecard affordably and securely connects customer products toย the cloudย without the burden of cell plans, fees or complex device setup andย provisioning. It works seamlessly withย Notehubย to securely route data from a customer’s products to theirย cloud applicationย of choice.
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Notecard’s firmware supportsย failoverย to a secondary SIM for uninterrupted connectivity, so customers can leverage 1NCE for reliable Notecard coverage within previouslyย underserved regions. APIs, libraries, documentation,ย source code,ย open hardwareย designs and community simplify theย low codeย engineer and developer experience as they progress from prototype to pilot to production.
“Blues has one of the best IoT solutions in the market, and we see eye-to-eye on the need for global connectivity that’s bundled upfront and included in a customer’s device. Partnering with Blues will allow us to do what we do best: making it easy for customers to collect data anywhere in the world by turning connectivity into a nearly invisible part of the IoTย value chain,” saidย Ivo Rook,ย Chief Operating Officer, 1NCE.
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