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Notecard Outboard Firmware Update sets a new standard in the IoT industry by offering startup-friendly accessibility with enterprise scale and economics. This Notecard capability empowers developers with a new, secure, and highly flexible option for delivering required updates to cloud-connected products.

A hands-off approach that gives you freedom of choice

Notecard Outboard Firmware Update sets a new standard in the IoT industry by offering startup-friendly accessibility with enterprise scale and economics. This Notecard capability empowers developers with a new, secure, and highly flexible option for delivering required updates to cloud-connected products.

Security engineering by design protects your assets

Acting as a secure communications co-processor sitting aside your MCU, Notecard Outboard Firmware Update also protects your devices from bad updates and malware. The Notecard places your device into its bootloader, lays down the new firmware, and restarts it. Because this takes place from outside the host, permanently ‘bricked’ devices are a thing of the past because new updates can be applied even if the device goes rogue or stops functioning as intended.

Hyperscale cellular IoT firmware updates

Notecard Outboard Firmware Update is a powerful new capability delivered through Notecard and Notehub. It’s just another way Blues makes cellular cloud-connected IoT ‘actually’ possible for IoT developers, regardless of skills and background. Designed with a developer-first mindset, this game-changing capability addresses real-world challenges to building secure solutions at any scale.

Easy and Adaptable

Over-the-air updates are completed through hardware and require no cooperative software within the target processor. Just use any supported MCU (which contains ROM-based first-stage bootloaders), and wire up the ‘strapping pins’ between the Notecard and that MCU. Most modern STMicroelectronics or Espressif MCU will work, as well as select MCUs from Nordic.

Secure

Update your device with confidence that your data is protected by multiple layers of enterprise-grade security, a standard offering through Blues Notecard and Notehub. Your products are securely authenticated over cellular to the cloud using TLS, encrypted using standard protocols, and they’re not even attackable from the internet.

Economical

Firmware is compressed. Partial updates can be delivered. And the same capabilities used to deliver firmware updates can be used to deliver data, such as distributing updates to machine learning ‘models’ across an entire fleet.

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