Dragino Narrow Band (NB) Internet of Things (IoT) shield B5 is a standards-based low power wide area (LPWAN) technology developed to enable a wide range of new IoT devices and services. NB-IoT significantly improves the power consumption of user devices, system capacity, and spectrum efficiency, especially in deep coverage. New physical layer signals and channels are designed to meet the demanding requirement of extended coverage – rural and deep indoors – and ultra-low device complexity. NB-IoT Shield is an expansion board for Arduino to add NB-IoT technology. With NB-IoT Shield and Arduino, users can study/evaluate and do POC for NB-IoT solutions rapidly.
Highlighted Features
- Low power consumption
- Smart metering (electricity, gas, and water)
- Facility management services
- Intruder and fire alarms for homes & commercial properties
- Connected personal appliances measuring health parameters
- Tracking of persons, animals, or objects
- Smart city infrastructure such as street lamps or dustbins
- Connect industrial appliances such as welding machines, air compressors, etc.
Applications
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Smart metering (electricity, gas, and water)
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Facility management services
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Intruder and fire alarms for homes & commercial properties
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Connected personal appliances measuring health parameters
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Tracking of persons, animals, or objects
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Smart city infrastructure such as street lamps or dustbins
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Connected industrial appliances such as welding machines or air compressors
Specifications
- 1 NB-IoT antenna
- 1 NB-IoT shield
- Dimensions110mm x65mm x35mm
- Support 850Mhz NB-IoT bands
- Wide area coverage
- AT command to control
- Auto support 3.3v or 5v Arduino board
- Battery life of more than 10 years supported for a wide range of use cases
- Compatible with Arduino Leonardo, Uno, Mega2560, DUE, etc.
Hardware Overview
UART_TX and UART_RX are connected to D10/D11 of Arduino. To use other pins for UART communication, the user can remove the UART_TX and UART_RX jumper and wire them to the right side of these headers to other pins of UNO. The software serial pins also need to do related changes in Sketch.
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