Embedded and maker {hardware} specialist Seeed Studio has introduced the launch of a brand new asset-tracker improvement package, designed particularly to be used with Amazon’s Sidewalk low-power wide-area community (LPWAN) — providing, the corporate says, indoor and outside monitoring plus straightforward growth with exterior sensor modules.
“At Seeed Studio, we’re all the time on a mission to make cutting-edge applied sciences simpler and extra accessible. That is why we’re excited to introduce this LPWAN Asset Tracker Dev Package for Amazon Sidewalk primarily based on our Wio Tracker 1110, designed to simplify the way you construct indoor and outside monitoring options on the rising Amazon Sidewalk community,” Seeed’s Keang Loday writes of the corporate’s launch. “This new open supply package empowers you to try this quicker, and with much less complexity.”
Seeed Studio has introduced a brand new model of its Wio Tracker improvement board, licensed for Amazon Sidewalk. (📷: Seeed Studio)
The event board, which relies on Seeed Studio’s present Wio Tracker 1100, is constructed round a Semtech LR1110 transceiver and Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 system-on-chip. These supply the shorter-range Bluetooth Low Power (BLE) and longer-range LoRa and frequency-shift keying (FSK) required for connection to Amazon’s Sidewalk community — launched again in 2019 as a approach to offer connectivity in areas the place mobile and Wi-Fi cannot attain, boosted by Amazon’s sensible residence gadgets and devoted nodes like the Sidewalk Bridge Professional.
The board makes use of a mixture of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and International Navigation Satellite tv for pc System (GNSS) radios for indoor and outside location monitoring, and consists of an on-board temperature sensor, humidity sensor, and a three-axis accelerometer — a sensor payload which could be simply expanded utilizing its Grove headers.
Boosted by Amazon’s smart-home gadgets, Sidewalk is presently out there solely within the US. (📷: Seeed Studio)
“As IoT continues to evolve, networks like Amazon Sidewalk will play an important position in enabling new infrastructure and connecting gadgets,” Loday claims. “With our complete qualification and the assist of our Sidewalk take a look at package, we’re excited to assist builders leverage the facility of Amazon Sidewalk of their monitoring options.”
The event board is now out there to order on Seeed Studio’s net retailer, priced at $30.90; on the time of writing, Amazon’s Sidewalk community was solely out there within the US.