SigFox downlink is now available since the Telecom Design SDK 5. This allow to send a message to your SigFox device from the network. You have a 4 message a day limitation.
This post will explain how to configure and use SigFox downlink
TD1205 – sigfox
The TD1205 device is more than the usual Telecom Design Sigfox embedded circuit as TD1204 and TD1208, they are a all in one chip providing GPS antenna and RF antenna. Ready to use, to be clear you just need to plug a battery to use it.
In my point of view, for many applications not requiring more than 2 GPIOs, this product is really easy and chip way to design a SigFox product. As it costs around 55$ and you just have to add box & battery id sounds like the most affordable for small quantities. But …
This post is detailing what is specific to this chip ; read more following the link
sigfox hack board
I assume you know a little bit who I am and what I’m doing, I’m not the one to by > 100€ to buy a one shot development board kit to test & hack a device like the Telecom Design chip. So basically I built my own with the objective to work with multiple configuration.
My “cahier des charges” was to make a board able to be installed as a dauther board on a raspberry PI, able to support an arduino, able to run autonomously and being able to own a TD1204 as a TD1208.
It was a huge work to route it and I must recognize that it do not have all the GPIO connected as I expected but it exists, it works and it help me to build my first SigFox prototypes with success.
So, now, I propose to distribute this board to those of you looking for a such swiss knife.
The TD1204 is the GPS & Accelerometer version of the sigfox Telecom Design chip. After a previous post about the use of the accelerometers (here) I’m describing how to use the GPS module.
The embedded GPS is based on a UBX G7020 chip. This chip will give you the date, time, longitude, latitude, altitude, speed and direction of the device when activated.
Read more for programming details
This tutorial is describing how to create a new SigFox project based on the given SDK version 4-0-0. Read the full post to get the details.
I recently had to design a solution to power a arm based system like arduino with an external power supply but, as this system have to stay up even if current is cut, I also had to backup it with a battery. This post is describing the design for a such circuit.
To prepare a presentation of MQTT for tomorrow, I just finished a MQTT / Mosquitto demonstration in a 4 minutes video. Enjoy !
Pir sensor
In a previous blog post I described how I built a PIR sensor connected to Internet, based on the use of a Raspberry Pi device. As you can read in this previous post, the solution have a certain number of complexities like requiring a power supply, a 3G modem …
As it was originally planed to be done, here is the design of the same product, based on a SigFox device. This is really interesting to demonstrate the differences and the advantages of this technology. Let’s review how to built it !