AWS IoT ExpressLink SARA-R5 Starter Kit - Getting started
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Set up your hardware
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This means that the power-on procedure for the u-blox AWS IoT ExpressLink SARA-R5 module is
NOT the AWS one, it is the original u-blox SARA-R5 one and there is no
WAKE
2.2
Standard kit contents
This kit includes:
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the board with the SARA-R5 module,
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a cellular antenna,
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a Thingstream SIM card, which will have already been inserted into the board,
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an Asset Tracker Update Tool M.2 board.
This is sufficient to allow you to use the u-blox AWS IoT ExpressLink SARA-R5 module from an
attached PC via the USB-C interface.
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The SIM card includes 250 Mbytes of data transfer with the cellular network and after that must
be discarded.
Not covered in this getting started guide, but also included in this kit, is an ESP32 MicroMod board
that can be plugged into the M.2 socket on the board, allowing you to experiment with driving the
module from a microcontroller; please refer to the
for how to develop software
using the ESP32 chip.
2.3
User provided items
To use the board via an attached PC, and to power it from USB, a USB-C cable is required.
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Third party purchasable items
SparkFun MicroMod processor boards
, each carrying a different microcontroller
(e.g. nRF5, STM32F4, Raspberry Pi Pico, etc.) are available to plug into the M.2 socket on the carrier
board to use the module directly.
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Set up your hardware
Set up your hardware following the
hook-up guide for the standard SparkFun MicroMod Asset Tracker
, noting the differences described at the start of section
3.1
Set up host machine
To drive the u-blox AWS IoT ExpressLink SARA-R5 Starter Kit from an attached host machine, which
is ESSENTIAL during setup, you must plug the provided Asset Tracker Update Tool into the M.2
socket on the carrier board.
On the host machine you must install the drivers for the
