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Ideas, Insights, and IoT Innovation

Expert content for builders and product teams shaping connected products — from quick tips to strategic insights.

News
By
Cindy Rojas
Blynk Achieves SOC 2 Compliance: Ensuring Secure and Scalable IoT Deployments
Blynk's SOC 2 compliance certification provides enterprise-grade security for IoT implementations in industrial automation, smart buildings, and energy management. Learn how our secure platform benefits your business.
Product Updates
By
Mariia Shynkevych
Gain a Holistic View of Your IoT Data Across Fleets with Blynk’s New Dashboards
Struggling with fragmented IoT data? Blynk’s enhanced Dashboards provide a no-code, unified interface to monitor, analyze, and control all your devices in one place. Gain real-time insights, facilitate decision-making, and improve operations—without switching between systems.
Insights
By
Mariia Shynkevych
AWS Fleet Hub End-of-Life: Why Blynk is the Best Alternative for IoT Device Management
With AWS Fleet Hub shutting down, businesses need a scalable IoT management alternative. Discover how Blynk + AWS IoT Core provides a low-code, enterprise-ready solution to streamline device monitoring, security, and automation—without the engineering burden.
News
By
Mariia Shynkevych
Blynk Selected by Iridium as Pre-Integrated Software Solution for their New Satellite IoT Development Kit
Discover how Blynk’s low-code IoT platform powers the new Iridium Certus™ 9704 Development Kit, enabling global satellite IoT solutions with customizable mobile apps, pre-built dashboards, and seamless scalability for industries like logistics, agriculture, and energy.
Insights
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Future-Proof Your HVAC Product Line with Demand Response Capabilities
Discover how DR-ready HVAC systems can boost revenue, meet regulations, and lead sustainability efforts. Learn about the advantages and integration strategies with Blynk's IoT platform.
Insights
By
Cindy Rojas
Connecting the Unreachable: How Satellite IoT Empowers Remote Industries
Learn how Satellite IoT enables seamless connectivity for remote industries and how Blynk’s low-code platform simplifies global IoT for industries in remote and challenging environments.
Insights
By
Iryna Liashchuk
How to Stay Ahead with Your IoT Solution in HVAC
Discover how HVAC leaders are overcoming industry challenges and stay ahead of the competition. Learn how they build IoT solutions with high user adoption that boost ROI and streamline innovation in the HVAC industry.
News
By
Mariia Shynkevych
Blynk and MOKO Partner to Deliver Low-Code LoRaWAN Solutions for Asset Tracking
Blynk’s low-code IoT platform, combined with MOKO SMART’s hardware, provides a scalable, white-label LoRaWAN solution with cloud infrastructure, a comprehensive device and user management portal, and a mobile app builder for customized IoT applications. Tailored for industries like logistics, construction, and agriculture, it empowers businesses with real-time asset tracking, workforce safety, and streamlined operational control.
Insights
By
Cindy Rojas
How Construction Companies Are Using IoT for Health, Safety and Efficiency
How construction companies are leveraging IoT for increasing safety, compliance, and efficiency. Learn about the challenges and solutions for scaling IoT from pilot to full deployment.
News
By
Mariia Shynkevych
Blynk and Seeed Studio Expand Partnership with LoRaWAN and MQTT Support
Blynk and the Seeed Studio, a global leader in AI and IoT hardware solutions, are expanding their partnership to enable seamless integration of LoRaWAN and MQTT devices.
News
By
Mariia Shynkevych
Blues and Blynk: No-Code Apps and Low-Power Cellular Connectivity for Enterprise IoT
Discover how Blynk’s no-code platform and Blues’ low-power cellular connectivity make IoT development faster and easier. Build and deploy scalable IoT apps without coding, connect devices globally, and manage them from anywhere—even in remote areas. Perfect for businesses looking to streamline IoT projects and reduce time to market.
Insights
By
Cindy Rojas
Building Custom IoT Software vs. Low-Code Solutions: Key takeaways from Blynk at The Things Conference
Build vs. buy in IoT development: How low-code platforms can accelerate your IoT initiatives.
News
By
Cindy Rojas
DPTechnics Partners with Blynk to Deliver End-to-End IoT Solution for Cellular Projects
Discover how Blynk’s integration with DPtechnics simplifies deployment of the large-scale cellular IoT projects. The scalable, end-to-end platform integrates DPTechnics' cutting-edge hardware with Blynk’s powerful low-code IoT software, providing businesses with an easy-to-deploy, future-proof option for managing large IoT deployments. Ideal for industrial and commercial applications, the collaboration simplifies IoT development and enables rapid scaling without the need for custom solutions.
Guides
By
Mariia Shynkevych
How to Use Blynk to Bolster Large-Scale LoRaWAN® IoT Deployments
Discover how Blynk’s integration with The Things Stack simplifies and accelerates large-scale LoRaWAN® IoT deployments. Learn how to seamlessly connect your devices, manage and visualize data, and build custom applications with Blynk’s no-code platform. Get started today with our easy onboarding process and explore powerful features like custom device statuses and global LoRaWAN coverage.
News
By
Mariia Shynkevych
Blynk and Blues Partner to Simplify IoT Solutions Development
Leverage Blynk’s no-code app builder and Blues’ low-power cellular hardware for fast, scalable IoT deployments. Build custom mobile apps, manage devices, and deploy solutions without coding, reducing time to market and boosting efficiency in remote environments. Perfect for agriculture, logistics, and asset tracking.
News
By
Mariia Shynkevych
Blynk and The Things Industries Partner to Simplify Large-Scale LoRaWAN® IoT Deployments
Blynk and The Things Industries partner to provide a unified IoT solution combining no-code app development with global LoRaWAN connectivity. Businesses can now deploy, manage, and scale IoT projects easily across remote and urban environments without custom development, benefiting from seamless device provisioning and user-friendly tools for data visualization and device control.
News
By
Mariia Shynkevych
Blynk and NCD: IoT for Your Business Running from Day One
Use NCD’s off-the-shelf hardware, connect it to the Blynk IoT platform using Node-RED, and access secure cloud storage, real-time monitoring, and customizable apps—no coding needed. Ideal for businesses and enterprises, compatible with MQTT-enabled sensors and gateways.
News
By
Mariia Shynkevych
Blynk and NCD Partner to Deliver Enterprise IoT Solutions Off-the-Shelf
This partnership delivers a fully integrated IoT solution with MQTT-enabled devices and a low-code platform. Enterprises can eliminate custom development, reduce costs, and deploy reliable, scalable IoT systems faster—ready to use across industries.
Insights
By
Iryna Liashchuk
ThingsBoard vs. Blynk: The Ultimate IoT Platform Showdown
Explore Thingsboard alternatives to get the appropriate IoT platform for your project based on features, cost, and usability.
Insights
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Tuya vs. Blynk: Choosing the Right IoT Platform for Your Business
Explore Tuya alternatives to get the appropriate IoT platform for your project based on features, cost, and usability.
Guides
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
How to improve interactivity in no-code IoT apps using Blynk's sheets
Discover how to enhance user experience and interactivity in no-code IoT apps with Blynk's new Sheets functionality. This guide covers practical use cases, setup instructions, and benefits of integrating Sheets to make your IoT applications more intuitive and visually appealing. Perfect for developers looking to streamline operations and improve engagement in their smart device applications.
Success Stories
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Built with Blynk PRO: Software for industrial HVAC, pumping solutions, and indoor farming
Learn how young businesses build IoT solutions with Blynk low-code software, saving time and resources on development. Blynk PRO plan allows you to launch a POC without heavy investments.
Product Updates
By
Vova Shymanskyy
Blynk Expands Protocol Range: Introducing MQTT Support
Blynk now supports MQTT, alongside HTTPs, LoRaWAN, and our own Blynk protocol, offering enhanced device interoperability, simplified project migration, and broad SDK compatibility for IoT projects.
Solutions
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Decoding Disconnections: Blynk’s Approach to IoT Connectivity Indication
Typically, IoT platforms signal a device as either online or offline. Blynk transforms this approach by enabling custom 'offline' statuses. This allows for indicating whether a disconnection is routine or if the device needs attention. Learn more about our new approach and how you can use it for your device.
Product Updates
By
Mark Kiehl
RGB Control Widget
Try out the RGB Control Widget with this demo project. With this widget you can dynamically set the color, turn the RGB on/off, set the brightness, and choose custom animation effects.
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Meet Device Header: Build IoT Apps that Look Custom Developed
Header constructor helps bring to the top what matters the most for your product and be able to read the key information at a glance making your IoT app look sleek and professional.
News
By
Vova Shymanskyy
Blynk.NCP Integrated with Zephyr RTOS for Enhanced IoT Development
The integration of Blynk with the Zephyr ecosystem offers embedded engineers robust, pre-built IoT tools ready for immediate use on over 500 Zephyr-supported hardware platforms across different architectures like ARC, ARM, MIPS, Nios II, POSIX or Native, RISC-V, SPARC, x86, Xtensa, and others. Read on to learn how this collaboration enhances IoT engineering capabilities.
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Console navigation improved! What's new?
Meet the enhanced Blynk Console experience with better access to devices, development tools all in one place and more - read on!
Success Stories
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Renewable energy, living art and air quality solutions built with Blynk PRO
From renewable energy solutions and advanced air quality monitoring to living art - diverse industries are taking advantage of Blynk’s low-code approach. Get inspired by the companies that build commercial IoT solutions without huge investments and years of development.
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
September Platform Updates
New tools to enhance and customize your mobile app UI, a new webhook trigger, and a project template with pre-configured WiFi provisioning and OTA updates are all ready for you to try out. And oh, a surprise.
Insights
By
Vova Shymanskyy
From Stellar Product To Smart Device: IoT Retrofitting With A Network Co-Processor
Learn how you can simplify an IoT retrofitting of your legacy device using a network co-processor and Blynk IoT platform. Advanced IoT functionality that comes out of the box with our new solution will save your resources and shorten the time to market.
Product Updates
By
Vova Shymanskyy
Unlock No-Code IoT Development with these Dual-MCU Boards!
Blynk added full support for seven more Dual-MCU boards, among them Arduino Portenta C33, Nano 33 IoT, Lilygo T-PicoC3, and others. It enables a simplified connection to the platform and access to the pre-built features - IoT device management, WiFi provisioning, OTA updates and so much more. Learn more about our newly supported IoT hardware.
Product Updates
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Blynk’s new Network Co-Processor changes the game for device retrofitting with IoT
Blynk.NCP (network co-processor) unlocks advanced IoT features like WiFi device provisioning, muti-connectivity support and OTA firmware updates for any hardware without any limits. Learn about a non-blocking operation, fail-safe OTA Updates, network manager, and other benefits of this new software solution by Blynk in the blog post.
Product Updates
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Meet Blueprints: Your Pre-Built IoT Projects 🚀
This awesome new tool is now available as a Beta version - Blueprints will help you create a full IoT project within a few minutes! A web and mobile dashboard and datastreams are pre-configured and the firmware is ready to go!
Success Stories
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Video interview with a client: Smart Indoor Garden on Blynk
In this video interview, the CTO of Plantaform is sharing their experience of building an IoT product. Andres tells about their IoT journey from idea to launch, hardware choice, development timeline, why they chose a low-code IoT platform and other exciting details - check it out.
Guides
By
Vova Shymanskyy
IoT Device Provisioning
Streamline IoT device provisioning for commercial manufacturers with Blynk. Simplify onboarding for Wi-Fi and non-Wi-Fi devices as well as dual-MCU solutions, automate firmware configuration, and deliver flawless user experiences. Learn more now.
Success Stories
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Smart ozone disinfection, smart plant care, air quality monitoring - built with Blynk PRO
IoT solutions built on Blynk with the most affordable commercial plan. Learn how you can utilize Blynk IoT platform in the HVAC and Agriculture industries and why it can save you time and resources.
Insights
By
Vova Shymanskyy
Top WiFi Boards for Commercial Connected Products
This article shows possible shortcuts in building the IoT software infrastructure by leveraging the synergy of powerful WiFi-enabled boards and Blynk.Edgent with built-in WiFi provisioning and OTA firmware updates, making it easier to deploy and maintain IoT products at scale.
Guides
By
Mark Kiehl
How to Control a Particle Device with Blynk
Check out a step-by-step guide on how to connect a Particle device to Blynk. This article provides details on how to push data from a Particle cellular device to Blynk IoT platform using HTTPs API and Webhooks.
News
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Introducing contest winners 🏆
Get inspired by innovative ideas from our community and learn how you can easily build smart solutions with Blynk IoT platform.
Guides
By
Yuliia Rudevych
How to turn Witty Cloud to smart light using Blynk
In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to turn a Witty Cloud board into smart light with Blynk.
Guides
By
Mark Kiehl
How to Connect a Particle Device to Blynk
Check out a step-by-step guide on how to connect a Particle device to Blynk. This article provides details on how to push data from a Particle cellular device to Blynk IoT platform using HTTPs API and Webhooks.
Guides
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Why use ESP32 + Blynk IoT platform for your connected product
Looking to develop a connected product using the ESP32 microcontroller? Learn how to use the Blynk IoT platform to quickly and intuitively create a custom app to control your device, and enable WiFi provisioning, and over-the-air (OTA) updates for your ESP32-based product.
Product Updates
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Win a free year of Blynk PRO!
Join the IoT project contest from Blynk to win one year of the PRO subscription! It's a great opportunity to try Blynk at its fullest or even scale your hobby into a small IoT business.
Product Updates
By
Vova Shymanskyy
New library release v1.2.0 🎉
Multiple connection types for the same device, a convenient way to use any Arduino connectivity, new sketch examples, features, and lots of other improvements.
News
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Blynk named Leader in IoT Platforms category by G2
G2 - the largest and most trusted software marketplace recognized Blynk as a Leading IoT Platform and awarded badges in 3 more categories.
News
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Meet Blynk at AHR 2023
Adding IoT features will bring your product to the next level! Let's meet up to discuss how you can easily build a low-code mobile application for remote monitoring and control within weeks.
Insights
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Blynk IoT vs Particle Comparison
This IoT platform comparison covers a high-level overview, developer tools, security, hardware and connectivity, enterprise scaling, automated actions, feature comparison, and pricing.
Success Stories
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Chicken coop door opener, smart hydraulic pumps, and more
IoT solutions built with Blynk PRO Plan for agriculture, indoor gardening, water management, and water supply equipment businesses.
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Device Claiming by End-Users
How will my customers activate their devices? This is the most frequent question that manufacturers ask while deploying commercial products. We have made the process easy and intuitive for the end-user whether it's a WiFi or non-WiFi device.
Success Stories
By
Iryna Liashchuk
New businesses running on Blynk
Today we highlight the IoT projects leveraging Blynk Business plan to create automatic shower cleaners, thermostats for reptiles and multifunctional water chillers.
Guides
By
Pete Knight
How to troubleshoot Wi-Fi provisioning in Blynk.Edgent
How to set up and troubleshoot Wi-Fi provisioning for devices in Blynk.Edgent. Using NodeMCU board and ESP8266 / ESP32 sketch examples.
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
December platform updates
Automations in Blynk.Console, image gallery widget, enum datastreams in Blynk apps, and new pricing plan - we improve our platform to provide a powerful and affordable tool for IoT solutions.
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
November platform updates
New LED widget in Blynk.Console, ‍faster OTA updates for individual devices, pages feature updates, why do you need a Datastream and more!
Success Stories
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Air monitors, automatic shower cleaner, advanced temperature control
Automated air quality monitoring and temperature control systems built on Blynk IoT platform.
Success Stories
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Raypak IoT Journey - Digitalizing boilers, water and pool heaters with Blynk
Interview with the Raypak team, long-time clients of ours who are building some seriously innovative IoT solutions in the HVAC space.
News
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Blynk at ArmDevsummit
Blynk leadership team will join the AIoT industry’s premier technical event for hardware designers and software developers. We will talk about how to build asset tracking app with a minimal budget and how to help your IoT startup succeed.
Success Stories
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Building an IoT solution for $49/ month: Blynk PRO client highlights
Security system for tournament-style fishing boats, IoT solutions for hydroponic gardens, and conditions monitoring for magnetic resonance equipment. Check our recent IoT case studies.
Product Updates
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Introducing the Dark Theme for Blynk
See how Blynk looks in the Dark Theme. It's so easy to switch, you will definitely love it as much as we do.
Guides
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
How to do OTA updates with Blynk and Wio Terminal
Blynk offers an interface to update your devices over the air. Here is the step-by-step guide on how to use OTA for Wio Terminal - It has never ben easier!
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Introducing new revolutionary feature: Pages
Now you can create individual pages and link them to any button! This will help to organize UI and make your no-code IoT app even more beautiful and user-friendly. Learn what else you can do with Pages.
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
New mobile widgets! | Blynk Blog
Widgets allow you to rapidly build a user interface for your IoT application with no code. We added 16 new mobile widgets including buttons and sliders and enhanced some of the old ones!
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
User Management: How to add users and give them access to your devices
Device and user management is easy with multi-tenant architecture. Whether you are planning to sell an IoT product to thousands of clients or just looking to share a personal project with your family - you might want to know how to configure it on Blynk.
Guides
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Deploy and manage non-WiFi commercial IoT devices (2G, 3G, LTE, Ethernet, etc)
We introducing an extremely important feature for commercial IoT solutions, which makes it easy to activate and manage cellular, wired, and other non-WiFi devices that you distributed to your customers. Check out step-by-step guide.
Guides
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
How to set up Datastreams for use in Blynk mobile app
Datastream is an important IoT platform component. We explained what can you do with Datasteams, how to configure it on Blynk.console, and where to find it in your mobile app.
Product Updates
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Latest Blynk IoT platform updates
Suspending users, device actions log permissions, updated Modules widget, billing permissions, and more: new features to make your IoT solutions better.
Success Stories
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Renewable energy, environment control, smart sanitation solution — Blynk client highlights
Discover amazing IoT case studies powered by Blynk. We are extremely proud to contribute to sustainability, safety, and a broad range of other sectors.
Guides
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
How to get started with Blynk
What is developer mode, how to set up a device template, activate your first IoT device, and other basic guides on the new Blynk IoT platform.
Guides
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Step-by-step video guide to making your first project on Blynk
Create your first IoT device with Blynk! Learn how to create templates, datastreams, and add devices on the new Blynk App and Web Dashboard.
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
What's changed from Blynk 0.1?
Discover what's new in Blynk 2.0 and how it can boost your projects. Here is the comparison of features.
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
The New Blynk: Features, Price, Updates and much more (Video)
Everything about new features in a single video. Learn about the web dashboard, the new Blynk library, over-the-air code upload, and other updates.
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
New Blynk IoT platform now supports Seeed’s Wio Terminal
Build your own tiny machine learning app using Blynk IoT platform. Connect your Wio Terminal just in a few simple steps.
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
What happened to the legacy Blynk platform? (FAQ)
We shared the legacy Blynk shutdown timeline and highlighted FAQ about energy, legacy Startup Plan, local Blynk server, migration to new Blynk IoT platform, and more.
Product Updates
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Meet the next-generation Blynk platform!
Blynk launched a new powerful IoT platform. Now everyone has the tools to build and monetize connected products. Here are some of the key features...
Success Stories
By
Iryna Liashchuk
How Airius built connected fans with Blynk
HVAC manufacturer explains why they chose Blynk IoT platform and what challenges they faced while building a connected fan system. IoT case study.
Insights
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Arm Interviews Blynk on Low-code IoT Development (Video)
Arm, Blynk and Airius Fans discuss the benefits of low-code IoT development, how the idea of Blynk was born, and how Airius Fans used the Blynk platform to easily monitor and manage fans.
Guides
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
5 project tutorials to help you get started with Blynk
Looking for Blynk IoT tutorials? We picked 5 IoT projects that will inspire you and show you how to use Blynk.
Insights
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Real Costs Of IoT Software Development
IoT software development cost and maintenance expenses breakdown. Resources to be spent on firmware development, data storage, application, and connectivity.
Guides
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Blynk App Publishing Process and Timeline
How to publish a branded app in App Store and Google Play using Blynk IoT platform? Process and timeline for the white label solution launch explained.
Success Stories
By
Iryna Liashchuk
Air pollution tracking, workplace sanitization, insect repellent management - new client highlights
IoT solutions for air pollution tracking, workplace sanitization, and insect repellent management - get inspired by bright projects powered by Blynk. Discover our latest IoT case studies.
Product Updates
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Features of the new Blynk IoT Platform
Did you know you can create your own no-code IoT app? With Blynk you can! Not only that - check the key features of the powerful new Blynk IoT platform, and discover what makes it so special.
Insights
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
14 Ways to Get Your New Electronic Hardware Product to Market Faster and Cheaper
How to reduce the cost and time to market for electronic hardware products? We got a bunch of useful advice from John Teel, who helps entrepreneurs, startups, makers, inventors, & small companies develop electronic hardware products in the most efficient way.
Success Stories
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Infiltrometer: Transforming Agriculture in New Zealand | Blynk IoT Blog
The care for nature borns nothing but brilliant ideas on how to make a business sustainable. Discover amazing IoT solutions for agriculture implemented with Blynk.
Insights
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Particle.io shuts down its Mesh product line
Particle makes a decision to shut down the Mesh product line. Learn what is behind it.
Insights
By
Pavlo Bayborodin
Internet Of Things is all over HVACR. Is the value there yet?
Pavlo Bayborodin, founder and CEO at Blynk, shares his thoughts on IoT in the HVAC industry, how implementation will affect the business model and the internal transformations that are needed to integrate IoT solutions.