Unboxing the Weightless-P Starter Kit
Quick Intro: Weightless-P is the narrowband, truly bi-directional LPWAN technology supporting high density of end devices per base station, long range, and low-power power consumption allowing your end-devices to enjoy years of battery life. The truly bi-directional aspect of the technology allows message acknowledgement, system control downlink, and the most anticipated FOTA (firmware-over-the-air) via multicast. Weightless-P operates in both unlicensed (ISM) and licensed Sub-GHz frequencies.
Ubiik is the first company in the Weightless ecosystem to complete hardware and software development of Weightless-P technology and here is Ubiik's Starter Kit offering...
The Hardware
Pulling up the top cover of the kit reveals 1 x Base Station, and 2 x End Modules. Each piece of hardware has a full Weightless-P protocol stack.
The inner tray's side panel stores 3 x antennas. The inner tray's backside stores 2 x USB to Micro USB cables and an AC adaptor.
Taking everything out and you will have this...
A full step-by-step manual shows you how to power-on your base station, connect end-devices to the network, and begin running tests. Ubiik also provides users with a couple user-friendly downloadable testing tools.
Ubiik Cloud
Each Weightless-P Starter Kit includes a FREE 60-day license for Ubiik cloud usage. From the dashboard you can view your Base Station and End Device(s) in the cloud.
See Uplink and Downlink traffic, which is sampled every 10 seconds.
Uplink history
Downlink history
Create Multicast Groups
Send Firmware
and much more...
Config Tool
If users wish to test without using internet connectivity, the Starter Kit can be used in offline mode with the Config Tool. The Config Tool is the program to connect your base station, view uplinks/downlinks, and send commands (basically implements all of the features of the Ubiik Cloud in an offline program.
EVB GUI (aka Lily GUI)
The EVB GUI is another tool that is used for initial End Device EVB registration and sending AT commands to your End Device EVB.
Arduino
Upon request, there are manuals and Arduino sample source code to connect the End-Device EVB to an Arduino board. This allows users to connect any sensor of preference and send the sensor readings via Weightless-P back to the base station.
The manual specifically addresses connecting the following sensors...
- PM2.5
- Temperature
- Humidity
- GPS
- LED
For full documentation, data sheets, volume pricing, and/or any other questions, feel free to send me a message.
Thanks for reading!
Jay Wey
Airports should have movie theaters...
Mechanical Engineer at Pro-Mart Industries Inc,
7 年Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) is perfect for long range communications at a low bit rate.
Associate Professor
7 年Jay. This may be a perfect package for our students to try and learn lpwan. we were building our own gateways and this may solve the problem. more information will be appreciated. [email protected]
Senior Technical Leader | Industry Standards
7 年I like the potential performance, openness and standards approach. The license used to be very similar to Bluetooth but I have not checked recently.
Researcher - Smart Connectivity at IKERLAN
7 年A Weightless-P Starter Kit was announced one year ago. Finally I can see it shipping, no more vaporware.
Helco
7 年Mahdi H. Moghaddam