Connected Product Guidebook
Great connected products don't happen by accident. This guidebook gives you the roadmap to build, launch, and scale with confidence.
Plan
Define your business case, map your cloud architecture, and align stakeholders before you write a line of code.
Making the Business Case
Get help convincing stakeholders to approve your idea, allocate budget, or to provide the resources you need.
Why Choose Blues?
Defend your platform choice by showing how Blues reduces execution risk, accelerates time to market, and scales from prototype to production.
Cloud Architecture Guide
Plan your cloud infrastructure around Blues Notehub, organize devices at scale, route data to downstream services, and model costs.
Build
Design and build your prototype with production-ready hardware, firmware, and connectivity patterns.
Prototype Planning Checklist
A comprehensive checklist of requirements, decisions, and tasks to complete before building your connected device prototype.
Firmware Best Practices Guide
Patterns for production-ready firmware: power management, remote configuration, OTA updates, and RF-specific considerations.
Integrating Notecard into a Product
Considerations for using off-the-shelf Notecarriers, and when to design your own PCB for Notecard integration.
Validate
Validate antenna and RF performance, run pilots with real customers, and navigate certification to prove your product is ready for production.
Antenna Guide
Best practices for antenna selection, placement, and design to optimize wireless connectivity.
Pilot Planning Guide and Checklist
An extensive guide and checklist of tasks to consider before launching your pilot deployment.
Product Certification Guide
A guide to help you navigate the certification process for your connected product.
Scale
Launch to production with manufacturing, fleet operations, and go-to-market strategies that grow with you.
Manufacturing and Supply Chain Readiness
From BOM finalization to production line setup: SKU selection, provisioning at scale, quality control, and supply chain management.
Managing Devices at Scale
Patterns for operating your fleet at scale: monitoring, troubleshooting, firmware management, and support operations.
Go-to-Market Guide
Pricing strategy, sales enablement, customer onboarding, support infrastructure, and customer success for commercial launch.