At this week’s CES in Las Vegas, device-to-cloud expert Blues presented 28 customer- and partner-built products deployed in commercial environments, showing how reducing infrastructure complexity is enabling more businesses to embrace IoT and launch smart connected products at scale.

The stand featured real products and devices from industries including transportation and logistics, commercial buildings and facilities, industrial equipment, and energy and environmental monitoring. From connected truck batteries to the world’s first connected port-a-potty, each product demonstrated how Blues’ unified device-to-cloud system is accelerating customers from concept to deployment while reducing complexity, controlling costs and helping them scale with end-customer demand.

Rather than prototypes or concepts, the showcase focused on commercial deployments of smart connected products and intelligent services that help organisations prevent downtime, reduce truck rolls, improve energy efficiency, enhance safety assurance and prevent losses.

“CES is full of big ideas; we’re bringing proof,” said Ian Small, CEO of Blues. “These 28 products show what happens when teams can avoid infrastructure complexity and focus on business impact. Our customers are building secure, scalable, smart connected products and delivering intelligent services using the tools they already know, delighting their end customers and getting to real business impact faster, without the surprises and roadblocks that usually slow IoT projects down.”

Blues (blues.com) entered CES (www.ces.tech) following a landmark year for the company. In 2025, it announced $33m in funding, including a $25m raise led by Sequoia Capital and an $8m add-on round. The company also expanded its global satellite IoT connectivity footprint with the launch of Starnote for Iridium, enabling subscription-free satellite-backed IoT deployments for remote and hard-to-reach environments. Former Evernote CEO Ian Small joined Blues as CEO in May 2025, with founder Ray Ozzie assuming the role of executive chairman.

Blues’ device-to-cloud system combines plug-and-play hardware, data routing, and fleet management into one integrated platform. Customers use Blues to move data instantly, securely and economically from physical products to their applications, without building or managing complex infrastructure. Blues’ flagship products – Notecard, Starnote and Notehub – work together to help users accelerate the creation of smart connected products and field data-driven intelligent services.

Companies across transportation and logistics, commercial buildings and facilities, industrial equipment, energy and environmental monitoring, and more, go from concept to business impact faster, enabling new services, reducing operations costs and scaling alongside their customers.