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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

52 articles published

October 13, 2026

How to Estimate Battery Life for a Cellular IoT Device

The math for estimating a cellular IoT device's battery life, a calculator for your own numbers, and how to measure the real answer with Blues Mojo.

  • Low Power
  • Notecard
  • Cellular
  • Hardware
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
September 25, 2026

Protect User Privacy with Notecard Location Fuzzing

Your product may need to know where it is, but your customers probably don't want it reporting their street address. See how Notecard can obfuscate location.

  • Notecard
  • Notehub
  • GPS/GNSS
  • Security
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
August 26, 2026

Keep API Keys Off the Device: Use Authenticated Web Calls via Proxy Routes

Stop including secret keys on your devices! Notehub proxy routes let your credentials live in the cloud while the device stays anonymous.

  • Notecard
  • Notehub
  • Security
  • JSONata
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
August 11, 2026

Cut Your Data Usage in Half with Notefile Templates

Every JSON Note repeats its field names with its values for the life of the device. Notefile templates have Notecard send fixed-length binary records instead.

  • Notecard
  • Cellular
  • Satellite
  • Firmware
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
July 28, 2026

Introducing Notehub IQ: Use AI to Talk to Your Products

Ask questions about your deployed products in plain language and get answers from the data you already collect, through Notehub MCP, with no pipeline to build.

  • Announcement
  • Notehub
  • AI
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
July 14, 2026

Interrupt-Driven IoT with the Notecard ATTN Pin

Unnecessary polling drains IoT batteries. Notecard's ATTN pin lets a host MCU stay in deep sleep at µA levels and wake only when something happens.

  • Low Power
  • Notecard
  • Firmware
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
July 7, 2026

Pole-to-Pole: Introducing Starnote for Iridium

Starnote for Iridium adds affordable, pole-to-pole satellite failover to Cellular, WiFi, and Cell+WiFi Notecards, with bundled data and no monthly fees.

  • Announcement
  • NTN
  • Satellite
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
June 30, 2026

CAN Bus for Automotive IoT: From OBD-II to the Cloud

Automotive CAN bus carries everything from RPM to battery state. Learn to tap it, decode the frames, and stream vehicle data to the cloud with Notecard.

  • Automotive
  • Cellular
  • Cloud
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
May 29, 2026

Provisioning IoT Fleets at Scale with Notehub

A multi-stage provisioning workflow that takes IoT devices from the manufacturing line to the customer's site without a single manual configuration step.

  • Notehub
  • Fleet Management
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
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, Satellite, and WiFi 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
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