The Portenta Cat. M1/NB IoT GNSS Shield brings cellular communication and positioning to the Portenta H7 boards.
The Shield uses a Cinterion TX62 radio module designed for high-efficiency, low-power IoT applications and optimized bandwidth and performance.
The Shield enables the development of asset tracking and remote monitoring applications (agriculture, smart cities, utilities) combined with the powerful computing power of Portenta H7. This is a Works with Arduino product, developed by Arduino and Thales.
• add NB-IoT, CAT.M1 and positioning to Portenta.
• change connectivity capabilities without changing the board.
• reduce communication bandwidth requirements in IoT applications
• low power module
• implement a small multiprotocol gateway (H7 WiFi - BT + NB-IoT/CAT.M1)
• compatible with MKR boards and Portenta H7
Technical data
• Cinterion TX62 radio module (see data sheet)
• NB-IoT - LTE CAT.M1
• 3GPP Rel.14 compliant protocol LTE Cat. M1/NB1/NB2
• UMTS BANDS: 1 - 5 / 8 / 12 (17) / 13 / 18 - 20 / 25 - 28 / 66 / 71 / 85
• LTE Cat.M1 DL: max. 300 kbps, UL: max. 1.1 Mbps
• LTE Cat.NB1 DL: max. 27 kbps, UL: max. 63 kbit/s
• LTE Cat.NB2 DL: max. 124 kbps, UL: max. 158 kbps
• point-to-point mobile terminated (MT) and mobile originated (MO) text mode
• Protocol Data Unit (PDU) mode
• GNSS capability (GPS/BeiDou/Galileo/GLONASS)
• Embedded IPv4 and IPv6 TCP/IP stack access
• Internet services: TCP server/client, UDP client, DNS, Ping, HTTP client, FTP client, MQTT client Secure connection with TLS/DTLS Secure Boot
Possible application areas
• Remote monitoring
• industry and agriculture
• public utilities
• asset tracking
• daily life
• fleet management of industrial vehicles
