Blues Wireless the creator of Notecard, a way to add wireless connectivity to any product, has joined the IoT M2M Council (IMC), the largest community of qualified IoT users.

Notecard is a secure system on a module (SoM) with embedded ten-year global cellular connectivity that can be integrated into any remote asset so it can send data using JSon and two-lines of code. The data are routed to the cloud application of the user’s choice.

The IMC has 25,000 rank-and-file members, a plurality of which are product and app developers looking to speed their products to market.

“I had the chance of working with IMC in its inception days and they have done a great job building a large and engaging IoT community,” said Mobeen Khan, chief operating officer at Blues Wireless, who will represent the company on the IMC’s board of governors. “I am excited about re-engaging with the IMC members and helping them accelerate their IoT deployments. We have made it really easy for developers and product managers to use our Notecard to connect to their global assets and rollout secure, low cost IoT for remote monitoring and asset tracking in record time.” 

The IMC’s rank-and-file adopter membership routinely cites speed-to-market and scalability as two of its biggest concerns. The trade group covers 27 vertical markets, from home automation to industrial asset tracking to precision agriculture, with roughly 35% of its membership in North America, 25% in Europe, 25% in Asia, and the rest dispersed.

Lately, the IMC has made a name for itself in best-in-class online events during the pandemic – the group is the exclusive IoT infrastructure partner for the Consumer Electronics Show, where it organises conferences and a pavilion.

“We welcome Blues Wireless and Mobeen Khan to the IMC board as a technology innovator that will help to accelerate the growth of the IoT sector,” said Kim Bybjerg, IMC chairman and head of European business operations at Tata Communications. “Blues’ leadership brings a wealth of experience and also brings an important start-up perspective to our board.”

The IMC is the largest trade group dedicated to the global IoT and M2M sector with more than 25,000 IoT enterprise users, product makers and designers, and apps developers that buy IoT products and services as members. Board companies include Aeris, AVSystem, BeamLive, BICS, Blues Wireless, Digi, FloLiveE, Gurtam, iBasis, Incognito, Ignion, IoT Launch, Keyfactor, KORE, Losant, Microsoft Azure IoT, MultiTech, NimbeLink, Novotech, Arm-subsidiary Pelion, Pod Group, Quectel, Software AG, Somos, Taoglas, Tata Communications, Telit and Vodafone.