CEO of Blues Wireless, Blues Wireless
Search every verified Ray Ozzie interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ray Ozzie, CEO of Blues Wireless, has been active in discussions about the Internet of Things (IoT) and the challenges of simplifying cellular connectivity for developers. In a December 2023 fireside chat, Ozzie described his company's focus on creating an "embeddable data pump" that allows hardware developers to treat cellular as a straightforward data pipe, bypassing complexities such as power management, security, and modem commands. He noted that Blues Wireless products, including the Note Card and Swan module, are designed to reduce the time from prototype to deployment, aiming to shrink a typical three-year cycle to six months. Ozzie also expressed views on the IoT ecosystem, stating that it remains fragmented and that the industry has not yet "picked the winners" in terms of toolchains, which he said keeps the market chaotic. Ozzie has also discussed his involvement with Safecast, a citizen-science project that grew out of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. He described how volunteers, including himself, collaborated to measure radiation and publish open data after the meltdown, an effort he said demonstrated how IoT technology can provide environmental awareness. In November 2021, Ozzie helped unveil the Safecast Air Note, an outdoor air quality monitor that sells for $150 with no ongoing subscription, and which contributes data to the Safecast open dataset under a Creative Commons Zero license. He has characterized the device as a simple, single-purpose tool for measuring outdoor particulate matter.
“A couple weeks after the meltdown we converged in Tokyo and decided the best thing we could do was use our skills to measure radiation on the ground because the government and the power company had their hands full and really weren't giving people any data they could use to ascertain whether their children were safe.”
“From that experience I learned how IoT technology can be used to give us a viewpoint of the state of our environment — just giving people awareness puts us in a much better position than treating resources as infinite.”
“There are many hurdles — power management, security, dealing with AT commands and modems and state tables — and so I created Blues Wireless specifically early on focused on cellular to help customers make it much easier to build cellular-enabled products.”
“The ecosystem is still very fragmented; we have not done the hard work of picking the winners yet — things will not become simpler for customers until we collectively decide to put our weight behind a toolchain that everyone can rally around.”
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As the creator of Lotus Notes, the iconic corporate environment for online collaboration, as well as Microsoft’s former CTO and chief software architect and creator of Azure, Ray Ozzie has helped define the modern digital workplace. He has devoted his life since the 1970s to connecting people with computers and developing collaborative tools. On March 18, 2021, Ray was honored by CHM for a lifetime of work in collaborative software and software entrepreneurship. As part of a special backstage event, Ray Ozzie gave a personal tour of his collection of computing artifacts. For all footage from…
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Interviewed by Marc Weber on 2020-12-10 in Manchester, MA X9392.2021 © Computer History Museum Ray Ozzie was inspired by online collaboration in college, on the mainframe-based PLATO system. The arc of his career has been adapting collaborative features to successive platforms: Personal computers, the Internet, the cloud, mobile, and now the internet of things. PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) was a leading-edge computing environment for education created at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1960. By the early 1970s it was also evolving into perhaps…
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