Avnet Silica launched their MiniPOC Kit, designed to enable ‘Proof-of-Concept’ for edge-to-cloud IoT use cases. The easy-to-use kit is based on Renesas’ Synergy microcontrollers as well as the manufacturer’s leading-edge sensors and power management components.
The kit uses the LoRaWAN™ protocol, which supports low-power devices with battery life time of several years.
Intended for developing cloud-based condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and device management, the kit comprises all the necessary elements to take customer IoT solutions from the edge to the cloud. It includes a LoRaWAN gateway, multi-sensor monitoring through nine different sensor technologies, plus everything required for cloud connectivity via the IoTConnect platform, including the LoRaWAN network server, device management, visualisation and control, and data analytics.
The Avnet Silica turnkey low-power multi-sensor solution is designed to enable the majority of LoRaWAN-based use cases and comes with a full software stack and the use of CE-certified hardware, including sensors for humidity, temperature, ambient light, air quality and air pressure, plus added microphone, digital accelerometer, digital gyroscope and inductive proximity sensor for positioning information, enabling proof-of-concept to begin right out of the box.
The board integrates a number of key components from Renesas, such as: the Synergy S3A6 microcontroller, which powers the LoRaWAN module, and the Synergy S124 application MCU; sensing devices including the HS3004 humidity and temperature, ISL29035 ambient-light, ZMOD4410 air-quality and ZMID5202AE1R inductive proximity sensors; plus the ISL88014 voltage supervisor and ISL9122A buck/boost regulator for advanced power management.
