u-blox ANT-B10, User Manual

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ANT-B10 - User guide
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1 Product description
1.1 Overview
The ANT-B10 is a versatile Bluetooth direction finding board equipped with eight dual-polarized, patch
antennas for direction finding, as shown in
Figure 1 .
Figure 1: ANT-B10 board showing antennas and mounting holes
The board hosts a single NINA-B411-40B Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) module, which controls the
antennas and applies an angle calculation algorithm to the received signals to compute tag angles.
The angles are calculated by the u-connectLocate software running on the embedded MCU in the
module. The angles are delivered over the UART port of the ANT-B10. Future u-connectLocate SW
versions may also include support for USB and SPI interfaces.
For general information about Bluetooth direction finding, watch the u-blox webinars [2] and study
the technical overview from the Bluetooth SIG [3] .
1.2 Kit includes
ANT-B10 antenna board.
1.3 Suggested accessories
The ANT-B10 board has a pin header used for the communication with a host PC. For initial testing, it
is advisable to use this header to set up a UART connection to the PC. See also
Connecting the
ANT-B10 board to host PC .