Many off-the-grid IoT solutions rely on low-bandwidth cellular protocols (e.g. NB-IoT and LTE-M) for communications. While there are numerous advantages to these protocols, as they consume less power and are more cost-effective, they are typically limited to infrequently relaying small packets of sensor data.

However, what if we took an outside-the-box view of cellular IoT and exposed what we actually could do with NB-IoT and LTE-M by…

  • Remotely controlling machines
  • Transferring large binary files
  • Updating Machine Learning models remotely
  • Performing cloud-based firmware updates

Normally we’d delegate these tasks to Wi-Fi, but this is where the Blues Wireless Notecard cellular system-on-module and its accompanying cloud service, Notehub.io, can help!

Join us as we will dive into all of these topics and see how we can efficiently and securely use narrowband cellular to its full extent.

Speakers

Rob Lauer
Developer Relations Lead, Blues Wireless
Rob is the Developer Relations Lead at Blues Wireless and has a passion for Machine Learning, the IoT, and the open web. You can find Rob rambling as @RobLauer on Twitter.
TJ VanToll
TJ VanToll
Principal Developer Advocate, Blues Wireless
TJ is a software developer, tech author, speaker, and a Principal Developer Advocate for Blues Wireless. TJ has over a decade of development experience, including a few years working on the jQuery, NativeScript, and Kendo UI teams. Nowadays he spends his time helping developers build awesome IoT experiences at Blues.
Zak Fields
Zak Fields
Senior DevX Engineer, Blues Wireless
Zak has a long history in the Internet of Things starting in Windows IoT, then moving on to Azure IoT, Particle and now Blues Wireless. He is a maintainer of the Firmata open-source project, and creator of Windows Remote Arduino. Zak is most often found accidentally catching himself or something else on fire. 🔥🔥🔥
Hosts
Blues
Blues
Blues simplifies wireless communication. Our mission is to transform every physical product into an intelligent service, helping communities and companies to save time and money, and improve the world.
Blues simplifies wireless communication. Our mission is to transform every physical product into an intelligent service, helping communities and companies to save time and money, and improve the world.