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Rob Lauer

Rob Lauer

Senior Director of Developer Relations

A maker at heart and a supporter of the open web, Rob is Director of Developer Relations at Blues.

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Articles by Rob Lauer

43 articles published

May 6, 2026

Designing IoT Devices That Degrade Gracefully Instead of Going Dark

Battery-powered IoT devices rarely just fail, they degrade. Here are six low-power mistakes I see in real Notecard deployments and how to design around them.

  • Low Power
  • Notecard
  • Hardware
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
March 10, 2026

One Module, Three Networks - Meet Notecard for Skylo

Introducing Notecard for Skylo, the only module combining Cellular, WiFi, and Satellite connectivity on a single board with bundled data and no fees.

  • Announcement
  • NTN
  • Satellite
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
January 27, 2026

Introducing Blues Notecarrier CX - Carrier and Host MCU in One Board

Learn more about the new Notecarrier CX, featuring a user-addressable onboard STM32L433 MCU.

  • Announcement
  • Cygnet
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
November 21, 2025

Level Up Your IoT Fleet with the Latest from Notehub

A quick tour of the latest Notehub features built for IoT developers and fleet administrators.

  • Notehub
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
September 22, 2025

Insights from the 2025 Blues IoT Developer Survey

The responses are in! Here's what we learned from this year's IoT developer survey.

  • Community
  • Survey
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
August 28, 2025

Remotely Manage Notecards with Reserved Environment Variables

Learn how to utilize certain environment variables to remotely configure fleets of Notecards.

  • Notehub
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
August 5, 2025

JSONata 2.0 for Notehub Routes: New Features and How to Use Them

JSONata 2.0 is now in Notehub routes. Here are the new operators, functions, and patterns that make IoT data transformations faster and easier.

  • Notehub
  • JSONata
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
June 2, 2025

Bridging the Gap: LTE Cat-1 bis and the Future of 5G IoT

What is LTE Cat-1 bis and how does it impact the future of 5G in the IoT?

  • Cellular
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
May 14, 2025

Cellular IoT Module Comparison: Notecard vs DIY Arduino

Side-by-side comparison of Blues Notecard versus a typical off-the-shelf cellular IoT module — the code, retries, power management, and OTA each one needs.

  • Cellular
  • Notecard
  • Notehub
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
March 19, 2025

Routing IoT Data to Adafruit IO (and Beyond)

Learn how to use Notecard and Notehub to route collected sensor data for visualization (and more) on Adafruit IO.

  • Notehub
  • Cloud
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
February 19, 2025

Making Sense of Your IoT Data with AI

Leverage the APIs from Notehub and OpenAI to help interpret the data generated by your connected products.

  • AI
  • Machine Learning
  • Notehub
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
February 3, 2025

Introducing Mojo - A New Way to Measure Energy Usage in Battery-Powered Systems

Mojo is a Notecard companion device that measures power consumption in battery-powered systems.

  • Announcement
  • Low Power
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
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