NOV

Uncovering the Hidden Use Cases of Narrowband Cellular for the IoT

November 17, 2021

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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

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 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 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 simplifies gathering and moving sensor data from your device or product to your cloud. Think of us as the “I” in IoT. We move data bi-directionally over the global cellular network (130+ countries) and Wi-Fi through hardware and software endpoints for the best out-of-the-box connectivity. We support all Microcontrollers and Cloud Application Endpoints, so you can build your product, your way.