Blues, a leader in IoT connectivity solutions, has officially announced the launch of three new fleet management capabilities, including Smart Fleets, Fleets to Exclude, and Batch Jobs.
According to certain reports, the stated capabilities arrive on the scene bearing an ability to simplify the process of working with, manipulating, and managing connected device fleets at scale.
 More on the same would reveal how these tools can be individually or in combination, making up a powerful proposition for fleet orchestration and task automation to reduce effort, human error, and improve the quality of data routed to the cloud.
Talk about the given development on a slightly deeper level, we begin from Smart Fleets, a solution which leverages real-time operational data to dynamically and automatically group devices into one or more sub-fleets within a larger fleet, thus greatly simplifying analytical, management, or administrative tasks
This translates to how devices are automatically added to or removed from sub-fleets based on configurable, user-specified data, including both sensor readings and device metadata. Smart Fleets can be further used to highlight outliers, partition devices by geography, differentiate live devices from test devices, group devices needing upgrades or other attention, and more.
In case that wasn’t enough, devices can also belong to multiple Smart Fleets at once, something which empowers fleet admin to manage, manipulate, and report on their devices through different business lenses at the same time.
On top of that, they can even combine Smart Fleets with Blues’ Notehub cloud API to further extend the possibilities for automated fleet management and control.
Next up, we have Fleets to Exclude, which makes it possible for fleet admins to rapidly and easily remove problematic data sources from outbound cloud routing so to protect downstream analytics, alert, and diagnostics from contamination due to known bad data. Such a mechanism, like you can guess, really goes the distance to eliminate the data within selected fleets from a specified data feed.
Hence, if a collection of environmental sensors starts sending corrupted readings due to a calibration issue, Fleets to Exclude can instantly block that data from reaching the analytics platform, preventing false alarms in maintenance dashboards, and keeping operational decision-making accurate.
Turning our attention towards Batch Jobs, they effectively allow fleet admins to safely and reliably perform consistent, repeatable tasks (including applying configurations, provisioning devices, and migrating fleets in bulk) across either their entire fleet or subsets of their fleet.
More on the same would reveal how Batch Jobs leverages a flexible encoding for each task and methodically applies that task to each device in the specified fleet. This aspect effectively eliminates repetitive manual updates, ensures fewer version mismatches, and faster adoption of process improvements across your fleets.
Thanks to that, the stated solution should be able to boost efficiency, attain consistency, and reduce errors across large deployments.
Founded in 2018, Blues’ rise up the ranks stems from helping organizations get their physical products and businesses to bank upon data and the delivery of data-fueled intelligent services. The company’s proprietary technology is presently committed to provision and communicate with any physical product, anywhere. The idea here is to enable new sources of revenue and new customer experiences, while simultaneously reducing costs.
Blues’ excellence in what it does can also be understood once you consider it serves thousands of organizations worldwide across industries like health care, energy, and logistics etc
“Working with large fleets of connected devices reveals complexities that are not obvious early in development,” said Brandon Satrom, SVP of Product & Experience at Blues. “Smart Fleets, Fleets to Exclude and Batch Jobs are powerful, easy to use tools that unlock fleet management at scale in the Blues environment. Extending these new fleet management capabilities with our Notehub API provides Blues customers with a full toolbox for fleet management, simplifying administration, reducing workload, minimizing errors, accelerating deployment times, and increasing data quality. All of which enable organizations to scale their IoT operations more efficiently and with greater control.”
