AT&T and Blues Wireless Collaborate on IoT Product

AT&T reportedly is collaborating with Ray Ozzie, former CTO and Chief Software Architect at Microsoft, and his new company Blues Wireless to develop Notecard, a System-on-Module (SOM) designed to combine prepaid cellular connectivity, low-power hardware design, simple software design, and secure communications into a single solution. AT&T will provide the connectivity. Notecard reportedly will enable developers of a broad range of commercial and industrial products to embed connectivity, near globally. Battery-powered, fixed, or mobile, nearly any product can be cloud-connected and secured, according to the release. The new product is designed to connect things like home appliances, alarm systems, meters, tank level controls, construction equipment, HVAC systems, locks and gates, vending machines, and applications that can improve operations and provide supply chain transparency.