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TJ VanToll

TJ VanToll

Principal Developer Advocate

TJ VanToll is a software developer, tech author, and a Principal Developer Advocate for Blues. TJ has over a decade of development experience, including a few years working on the jQuery, NativeScript, and Kendo UI teams. Nowadays, he helps developers build awesome IoT experiences.

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Articles by TJ VanToll

26 articles published

July 30, 2025

Detecting Anomalous Devices With Notehub Smart Fleets

A guide to using Notehub smart fleets to automatically detect anomalous devices—such as those that are tipped, tampered with, or reporting faulty sensor data.

  • Notehub
TJ VanToll
TJ VanTollPrincipal Developer Advocate
June 25, 2025

Using Batch Jobs to Automate Notehub Workflows

Learn how to use batch jobs to make project-wide changes, generate reports, provision devices, and more.

  • Notehub
TJ VanToll
TJ VanTollPrincipal Developer Advocate
April 8, 2025

Configuring Your Notecard for GPS Tracking—A Beginner’s Guide

Everything you need to know about configuring your first Notecard for GPS tracking

  • GPS/GNSS
TJ VanToll
TJ VanTollPrincipal Developer Advocate
February 25, 2025

Introducing Notehub Smart Fleets

Learn about smart fleets, a new Notehub feature that lets you dynamically group your devices based on their data.

  • Notehub
TJ VanToll
TJ VanTollPrincipal Developer Advocate
February 13, 2025

Using Environment Variables to Change Notecard Configuration

Learn how to use environment variables, both built-in and custom, to change Notecard configuration remotely.

  • Notecard
  • Notehub
TJ VanToll
TJ VanTollPrincipal Developer Advocate
January 16, 2025

Automating Firmware Management with the Notehub API

Learn how to use the Notehub API to manage firmware updates for your devices or fleets of devices.

  • Notehub
TJ VanToll
TJ VanTollPrincipal Developer Advocate
December 11, 2024

How to Call Third-Party Web Services From Notecard

Learn how to make external web requests with Notecard by building a project that retrieves current weather data from the OpenWeather API.

  • Notecard
TJ VanToll
TJ VanTollPrincipal Developer Advocate
November 12, 2024

What’s New in Notehub

A look at the latest features we’ve shipped in Notehub, including JSONata improvements, new data exporting options, and two new integrations.

  • Notehub
TJ VanToll
TJ VanTollPrincipal Developer Advocate
September 17, 2024

Announcing an Official Integration With Blynk

Everything you need to know about using Blues and Blynk together to build your next project.

  • Announcement
TJ VanToll
TJ VanTollPrincipal Developer Advocate
September 4, 2024

Announcing the Blues Wireless for Opta Expansion

Add wireless connectivity to your micro PLC projects with the new Blues Wireless for Opta—available today!

  • Announcement
TJ VanToll
TJ VanTollPrincipal Developer Advocate
July 31, 2024

Implementing Geofences With Blues and Datacake

A guide to Datacake’s new Zone feature, and how to use it to create geofences for a Notecard-based project

  • Asset Tracking
  • GPS/GNSS
TJ VanToll
TJ VanTollPrincipal Developer Advocate
June 5, 2024

Announcing Starnote Availability and Starter Kit

Our cost-effective satellite module is now in stock, and we have a new starter kit to help you get up and running fast.

  • Satellite
  • Announcement
TJ VanToll
TJ VanTollPrincipal Developer Advocate
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