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| New 868Mhz 7dB LoRa antenna |
Specs:
Antenna gain: 7dB
Magnetic mount: 3cm
Cable length: 150 cm
Connector: SMA male
I can connected it to the gateway or to the ESP8266 Lora module from Dorji.com.
Showing posts with label Esp8266 LoRa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Esp8266 LoRa. Show all posts
Friday, November 11, 2016
LoRa Gateway has new antenna
Finally the new 7dB antenna arrived. Since the new antenna has a 3cm magnetic mount I will try to put it on top of the car for better coverage.
Specs:
Antenna gain: 7dB
Magnetic mount: 3cm
Cable length: 150 cm
Connector: SMA male
I can connected it to the gateway or to the ESP8266 Lora module from Dorji.com.
Specs:
Antenna gain: 7dB
Magnetic mount: 3cm
Cable length: 150 cm
Connector: SMA male
I can connected it to the gateway or to the ESP8266 Lora module from Dorji.com.
Sunday, October 23, 2016
New MOTE online
As you know I've received ten modules from dorji.com and I couldn't wait to test them, so today I've solder the first one.
Because the modules are build to be surface mount and I didn't had a board for that I had to improvise. To connect the pads to my development board I've used old terminals from resistors or LEDs. This step was much easy comparing to niceRF modules since the distance between the center of pads is 2mm instead of 1mm.
DRF1276G modules is connected to an ESP8266 NodeMCU module and it runs the LMIC code.
Other great feature of the DRF1276G module is that I can solder a SMA connector for external antenna directly on it.
9 to go now...
I am curious if the one of the other 16 gateways in Eindhoven are receiving my data transmitted by my three nodes because I receive packets transmitted by others.
Because the modules are build to be surface mount and I didn't had a board for that I had to improvise. To connect the pads to my development board I've used old terminals from resistors or LEDs. This step was much easy comparing to niceRF modules since the distance between the center of pads is 2mm instead of 1mm.
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| DRF1276G from dorji.com |
DRF1276G modules is connected to an ESP8266 NodeMCU module and it runs the LMIC code.
Other great feature of the DRF1276G module is that I can solder a SMA connector for external antenna directly on it.
9 to go now...
I am curious if the one of the other 16 gateways in Eindhoven are receiving my data transmitted by my three nodes because I receive packets transmitted by others.
Saturday, October 22, 2016
In plan: ESP8266 with GPS and LoRa
Few months ago I bought an GPS receiver from http://navspark.mybigcommerce.com/navspark-mini-uart-to-usb-adapter/ along with an GPS antenna.
The board is "free", just need to pay $10 for delivery :-)
I recommend you to take also the antenna for an extra $9 since without it the board is useless.
The board is :
The board is "free", just need to pay $10 for delivery :-)
I recommend you to take also the antenna for an extra $9 since without it the board is useless.
The board is :
HARDWARE SPECS
* 100MHz 32bit LEON3 Sparc-V8 + IEEE-754 Compliant Floating Point Unit
* 1024KB Flash Memory + 212KB RAM
* 1x full duplex asynchronous UART
* 1x SPI shared with GPIO
* 1x 2-wire interface shared GPIO
* Atomic clock synchronized P1PPS time reference with +/-10nsec accuracy
* 100MHz 32bit LEON3 Sparc-V8 + IEEE-754 Compliant Floating Point Unit
* 1024KB Flash Memory + 212KB RAM
* 1x full duplex asynchronous UART
* 1x SPI shared with GPIO
* 1x 2-wire interface shared GPIO
* Atomic clock synchronized P1PPS time reference with +/-10nsec accuracy
GPS SPEC
* 167 channel Venus 8 engine
* Uses GPS, SBAS, QZSS signals
* 1 ~ 10 Hz update rate
* Position accuracy 2.5m CEP
* Velocity accuracy 0.1m/sec
* Warm start TTFF under open sky 29sec average
* Cold start TTFF under open sky 30sec average
* Cold start sensitivity -148dBm
* Tracking sensitivity -165dBm
* Operating range : (altitude < 18km) or (speed < 515m/sec), both not exceeded simultaneously
* 167 channel Venus 8 engine
* Uses GPS, SBAS, QZSS signals
* 1 ~ 10 Hz update rate
* Position accuracy 2.5m CEP
* Velocity accuracy 0.1m/sec
* Warm start TTFF under open sky 29sec average
* Cold start TTFF under open sky 30sec average
* Cold start sensitivity -148dBm
* Tracking sensitivity -165dBm
* Operating range : (altitude < 18km) or (speed < 515m/sec), both not exceeded simultaneously
http://navspark.mybigcommerce.com/content/GNSS_Viewer.zip
http://navspark.mybigcommerce.com/content/GNSS-Viewer-User-Guide.rev0.2.pdf
The plan is to connect the GPS with the ESP8266 and with the new LoRa modules from Dorji.com to have a full LoRaWAN module.
I guess can use this setup also as a single channel gateway for LoRaWAN. It will be very small, cheap, battery operated, ideal for demos, students and as a LoRa STARTER KIT.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
New LoRa modules from dorji.com
Santa Claus came early this year for me with 10 great modules from dorji.com. You can buy them easy on tindie,com , ebay.com or give them an email.
Modules are based on SX1276 chip have the code DRF1276G with the full specs:
Comparing them with other modules I have, from niceRF, the space between the pads is 2mm versus 1mm on niceRF so there is more easy to solder them on. Also have pins on both sides so is much easy to design a good PCB. See a picture with the niceRF LoRa module.
I will connect them to the ESP8266 on the SPI I will let you know about the progress.
You can connect them to this ESP module or this one which is battery operated (keep in mind that are 3.3V modules) and don't forget to read this post.
Another nice thing abut this modules is that you can use them as a single channel gateway for LoRa so you will make an economy of few hundred euros so you can buy more modules and test or deploy your network.
Finally my LoRa gateway will be happy to receive another 10 motes. I am waiting for ideas what to connect as sensors for nodes.
Other software I am working on is a new LoRa Network Server that will be deployed as SaaS into the cloud so anyone can have a LoRa Server in a matter of minutes. With this server will be very easy to deploy your private LoRa network.
As a status, the Rx (uplink) part is done and I am working now on the TX ( downlink). The network server will support for the beginning the latest version (2) and I will add previous version (1) later on.
Modules are based on SX1276 chip have the code DRF1276G with the full specs:
- (G)FSK/4(G)FSK/LoRa Modulation
- 868/915MHz transceiver
- 20dBm output power
- -139dBm sensitivity
- Standard SPI interface
- 127dB dynamic Range RSSI
- Automatic RF sense and CAD monitor
- Data Rate: <300 kbps
- Standby current: <1uA
- Supply voltage: 1.8~3.6V
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| Dorji DRF1276G LoRa 868Mhz modules |
Comparing them with other modules I have, from niceRF, the space between the pads is 2mm versus 1mm on niceRF so there is more easy to solder them on. Also have pins on both sides so is much easy to design a good PCB. See a picture with the niceRF LoRa module.
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| niceRF SX1276 v1.1 868Mhz LoRa module |
I will connect them to the ESP8266 on the SPI I will let you know about the progress.
You can connect them to this ESP module or this one which is battery operated (keep in mind that are 3.3V modules) and don't forget to read this post.
Another nice thing abut this modules is that you can use them as a single channel gateway for LoRa so you will make an economy of few hundred euros so you can buy more modules and test or deploy your network.
Finally my LoRa gateway will be happy to receive another 10 motes. I am waiting for ideas what to connect as sensors for nodes.
Other software I am working on is a new LoRa Network Server that will be deployed as SaaS into the cloud so anyone can have a LoRa Server in a matter of minutes. With this server will be very easy to deploy your private LoRa network.
As a status, the Rx (uplink) part is done and I am working now on the TX ( downlink). The network server will support for the beginning the latest version (2) and I will add previous version (1) later on.
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| My LoRa Gateway |
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