Sensor Development Kit for IoT, RSL10 sensor

Development kits for IoT

Postscape estimates that by the end of this year, 2020, approximately 50 billion devices will be connected to the internet. A huge percentage of these devices are short-range wireless systems that use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to connect to the internet. This is evidence enough that IoT is taking the world by storm. Engineers are constantly trying ways of incorporating IoT into various aspects of our lives from production to agriculture. As such, Development kits for IoT come in handy in the sense they make prototyping faster and easier. Sensor development kit for IoT, therefore, comes in handy when developing IoT systems.

BLE based sensor development KIT for IoT

The RSL10 Sensor Development Kit by ON Semiconductor is one such kind. It offers engineers a comprehensive platform for developing IoT applications that embody cutting-edge smart sensor technology. Most notably it uses Bluetooth Low Energy radio. Using this platform can be used to develop industrial wearables, smart monitoring, and asset monitoring. Using the RSL10 sensor development kit you can also come up with medical, home automation, gaming, smart city, and consumer electronics applications.

RSL10 sensor development kit architecture

This sensor development kit combines highly integrated RSL 10 SIP alongside a variety of low power sensors from Bosch Sensortec. The sensors include environmental, inertial, geomagnetic, and ambient light sensors. As a result, the platform offers 9 degrees-of-freedom detection and environmental monitoring (Volatile Organic Compound, temperature, pressure, ambient light, and relative humidity.) The RSL10 sensor development kit also incorporates pushbuttons, a programmable RGB LED, a microphone, and a 64Kbit of EEPROM.

Types

There two variants of the RSL10 Sensor development kit for IoT;

• Base version (RSL 10-SENSE-GEVK)
• Debug version (RSL10- SENSE-DB-GEVK)

The debug version has a populated 10-pin debug header alongside a Segger J-Link LITE Cortes debugger. The debugger connects to this header comes alongside the development kit. The user will require a TC2050 connector on the base variant for debugging.

Features of the RSL10

• Based on RSL10 SIP
• Bluetooth 5 certified
• Certified to international wireless regulations including CE, IC, KC, MIC, and FCC
• Embodies NOA1305 for ambient light
• BH160- Integrated low-power smart hub, 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope
• BHI150 – Integrated low-power, Low-Noise 3-axis digital geomagnetic sensor
• BME 680- Integrated high-accuracy gas, pressure, humidity, and temperature sensor
• INMP522- Ultra-low Noise digital Microphone
• APTF1616 – Programmable RGB LED
• N24RF64 – 64KB NFC EEPROM
• 3 push buttons (programmable)
• RSL10 Sense and control app supported

Other sensor Development Kit for IoT

There are numerous other sensor development kits available off the shelve. They include;

• The SmartBod DA14583
• The PCTEL® WSDK-1450

Smartbond makes it easy to develop environmental sensing applications. It uses Bluetooth low energy as well. Unlike the Rsl10, Smartbond offers 12 DOF. It Embodies an ARM cortex-M0 processor, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer, and environmental sensors. The board measure 16×15 mm. It comes loaded with a sensor fusion software that is suitable for resource-constrained systems. since it minimizes memory, processing needs and power consumption.

Summary

Sensor development kits are playing a critical role in IoT adoption. If you are an engineer, these kits will help you reduce the amount of time between prototyping and the final product. There is a handful of them available over the shelf now. Be sure to check them out.

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