7.2 Hardware environment
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Symbol
Description
Min
Max
Unit
I
IDLE
Current consumption, MCU awake, no RF activity
10
mA
I
SEND
Current consumption,sending LoRa packet
75
mA
I
SLEEP
Current consumption in sleep mode
<10
µ
A
Table 7.5: Current consumption of the core module.
7.2.3
Antenna characteristics
The SoM module is equipped with two U.FL connectors: 2.4GHz for Bluetooth and one for 868MHz
(915MHz in US version) LoRa antenna. The parameters of the recommended antennas can be found
in Table 7.6.
Parameter
2.4GHz antenna
868MHz (EU version)
915MHz (US version)
Center Frequency
2.44GHz
868MHz
915MHz
Bandwidth
101MHz
40MHz
40MHz
Gain
4.3dBi
2.33dBi
2.3dBi
Table 7.6: Parameters of recommended antennas.