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Expansion Radio Board
20. Expansion Radio Board
The Expansion Board allows to connect two communication modules at the same time in the Waspmote sensor platform. This
means a lot of different combinations are possible using any of the wireless radios available for Waspmote:
802.15.4, ZigBee,
DigiMesh, 868 MHz, 900 MHz, LoRaWAN, LoRa, Sigfox, Bluetooth Pro, Bluetooth Low Energy, RFID/NFC, WiFi, GPRS Pro,
GPRS+GPS
and
3G/GPRS.
Besides, the following Industrial Protocols modules are available: RS-485/Modbus, RS-232 Serial/
Modbus and CAN Bus.
Figure: Expansion Radio Board
Some of the possible combinations are:
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LoRaWAN - GPRS
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802.15.4 - Sigfox
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868 MHz - RS-485
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RS-232 - WiFi
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DigiMesh - 3G/GPRS
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RS-232 - RFID/NFC
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WiFi - 3G/GPRS
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CAN bus - Bluetooth
•
etc.
Remark
: GPRS Pro, GPRS+GPS and 3G/GPRS modules do not need the Expansion Board to be connected to Waspmote. They can be plugged
directly in the socket1.
Applications:
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Multifrequency Sensor Networks (2.4GHz - 868/900MHz)
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Bluetooth - ZigBee hybrid networks
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NFC (RFID) applications with 3G/GPRS
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ZigBee - WiFi hybrid networks