Developers, makers and hobbyists looking for any 2G cellular Internet of Things development board with global connectivity without a “bloated back-end infrastructure”, may be interested in the new Solinius Sparrow board created by a team of developers based in Pittsburgh. Check out the video below to learn more about the lightweight 2G cellular IoT development board which is now available to back via Kickstarter with earlybird pledges available from $39 or roughly £29.
If all goes well worldwide shipping is expected to take place during August 2018. Each Solinius Sparrow kit comes complete with the following : Solinius Sparrow 2G, SIM800L 2G GSM Breakout, u.Fl Antenna, Breadboard, Hologram Global M2M SIM, Data – $5 of cellular data included Access to the companies open source firmware including: over the air (OTA) update capabilities, 256-bit encryption, hundreds of abstracted SIM800L commands.
General specifications of the Solinius Sparrow development board include :
– 2G GSM
– Over the air firmware updates with factory backup
– 256-bit TLS 1.2 Encryption
– Breadboard compatible
– Support for vendor-agnostic cloud MQTT endpoints
– TCP and HTTPS client libraries
– Language: C/C++
– ISP Programming Header
Technical specifications of the Solinius Sparrow include :
– 8-bit ATmega1284 14.7456Mhz
– 128KB of Flash Memory, 16KB of RAM
– 10 bit A/D resolution
– SimCom SIM800L GSM
– 4KB EEPROM
– 1MB of external flash memory
– 5-15V DC supply voltage via 2.1mm barrel jack
– 27 GPIO
– 8 Analog to Digital I/O pins
– UART, SPI, I2C
– 2G Range: Global
Source: Kickstarter
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