Technical Specifications of IOT EVALUATION BOARD
Board Specifications:-
- Board is driven using either Raspberry Pi 3 B+ or Arduino UNO R3 controller.
- Facilitates MQTT or HTTP application protocol connection to various IoT cloud platforms such as ThingSpeak, AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure, IBM Bluemix, etc.
- Can be connected to a Private Cloud including Xtrans Cloud.
- On board voltage regulator for generating 3.3V from +5V input through power adapter.
- On board Wi-Fi connectivity through ESP8266 for Arduino and internal Wi-Fi connectivity for Raspberry Pi.
- On board digital and analog sensors like Temperature and Humidity, Gas sensor, Light sensor, Ultrasonic distance sensor and Soil moisture sensor.
- On board ADC MCP3008 for Raspberry Pi to connect analog sensors and internal ADC for Arduino.
- On board 16x2 character LCD.
- On board 4x4 keypad matrixes.
- On board 32.768 kHz quartz crystal RTC DS1307 powered by coin cell battery of 3V.
- 4 LEDs and 4 Switches.
- 2-digit 7 segment display.
- On board stepper motor driver to drive 5V stepper motor.
- One Buzzer.
- Connector slot for external Bluetooth module for Arduino.
- Provided extra connectors for connecting external analog and digital sensors.
- I2C, SPI communication protocols.
- On board UART connector.
- UART Software serial communication.
- Several outputs of the on-board controller can be accomplished through events from cloud such as turning on LED’s or sending a test message etc.
- Outputs can be programmed to be event or threshold driven.
- Performance of IoT experiments and design / implementation of student projects possible including provision to write their own programs.
Controller Specification:-
The IoT Development kit has either Arduino UNO R3 or Raspberry pi 3 controllers.
Arduino UNO R3:
- Microcontroller: ATmega328.
- Operating Voltage: 5V.
- Input Voltage limit: 5-12V.
- Digital I/O Pins: 14 (of which 6 provide PWM output).
- Analog Input Pins: 6.
- DC Current per I/O Pin: 40 mA.
- DC Current for 3.3V Pin: 50 mA.
- Flash Memory: 32 KB of which 0.5 KB used by bootloader.
- SRAM: 2 KB (ATmega328).
- EEPROM: 1 KB (ATmega328).
- Clock Speed: 16 MHz.
Raspberry Pi 3:
- Quad Core 1.2GHz Broadcom BCM2837 64bit CPU.
- 1GB RAM.
- BCM43438 wireless LAN and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) on board.
- 10/100 Base Ethernet.
- 40-pin extended GPIO.
- 4 USB 2 ports.
- 4 Pole stereo output and composite video port.
- Full size HDMI.
- CSI camera port for connecting a Raspberry Pi camera.
- DSI display port for connecting a Raspberry Pi touchscreen display.
- Micro SD port for loading your operating system and storing data.
- Upgraded switched Micro USB power source up to 2.5A.