LoRa Gateway with RAK2287 LoRaWAN concentrator module

The RAK2287 is a mini-PCIe LPWAN hub module based on the Semtech SX1302 that can be easily integrated with existing routers and other networking equipment with LPWAN gateway capabilities. It can be used on embedded platforms that offer a free mini PCIe slot with SPI connector. In addition to LPWAN functionality, the module is equipped with a ZOE-M8Q GPS chip that provides GNSS functionality.

This module is an exceptional, complete, and cost-efficient gateway solution offering up to 10 programmable parallel demodulation paths, an 8 x 8 channel LoRa® packet detector, 8 x SF5-SF12 LoRa® demodulators and 8 x SF5-SF10 LoRa® demodulators. It is capable of detecting an uninterrupted combination of packets at 8 different spreading factors and 10 channels with continuous demodulation of up to 16 packets. The module is well suited for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, that require node density of up to 500 nodes per km² in an environment with moderate interference.
Source: https://www.semtech.com/company/press/semtech-releases-a-new-portfolio-of-solutions-lora-edge-to-simplify-and-accelerate-iot-applications

LoRa RAK2287 features

RAK2287 key features and specifications:

LoRa Connectivity:
- Semtech SX1302 LoRa Transceiver with 2x SX1250 Tx/Rx front-end
- Tx power – up to 27dBm
- Rx sensitivity – down to -139dBm @ SF12, BW 125 kHz
- LoRaWAN® 1.0.2 compatible.
- LoRa band coverage – RU864, IN865, EU868, AU915, US915, KR920, AS923
- 1x iPEX antenna connector for LoRa
GNSS – GPS / QZSS, BeiDou, Galileo, and GLONASS via U-blox ZOE-M8Q GPS SiP; 1x iPEX antenna connect for GPS

Source: https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/08/06/rak2287-mini-pcie-lorawan-concentrator-module-supports-up-to-500-nodes-per-km2/

Use of LoRa in industrial automation

Use of wireless connection makes life and work easier for us every day – from radio stations and GSM to Wi-Fi wireless networks, Zigbee, short-range Bluetooth connectivity and LoRa. With the spread of internet access, the possibility of using wireless connectivity for a new type of service and application has opened. Terminology such as M2M (Machine to Machine) – remote communication between devices and IoT – a network of applications and devices communicating with the Internet have been created.

Device equipped with LoRa module is delivered with a LoRaWAN protocol stack, so it can be easily connected to the existing, fast-growing LoRa Alliance infrastructure – both in privately managed local area networks (LAN) and public telecommunications networks to create wide area low power WAN (LPWAN) on a national scale. LoRaWAN stack integration also allows connection to any microcontroller, such as LoRa Gateway industrial device from TECHBASE.

2 November 20182 November 2018

New ModBerry M2000 based on Aaeon’s UP Squared x86 board

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8 June 201811 June 2018

ModBerry M500 upgrades to Raspberry Pi 3 B+

The latest version of Raspberry Pi development board, Raspberry Pi Model 3 B+, is now available as a platform for ModBerry M500 industrial computer series. Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ (Plus) offers has more computing power and much greater possibilities in the field of wired and wireless communication.

The biggest new feature introduced in 2016 is the Raspberry Pi 3 wireless support. Now the creators took a step forward and refined the solution. The new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ – supports two-band Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz and new 5 GHz), Bluetooth version 4.2 and Ethernet over USB 2.0 (up to 300 Mb / s). Upgraded ModBerry M500 series is powered by s more powerful heart, in the form of a Broadcom BCM2837B0 quad-core processor clocked at 1.4 GHz. Power-over-Ethernet support has also appeared, and heat dissipation has been improved.

ModBerry M500 vs ModBerry 500(CM3)

Standard ModBerry 500 series is based on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3, an industrial version of commercial Raspberry Pi branch, with flagship Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. Used Compute Module is more suitable for custom products, such as our ModBerry 500 industrial computer, which can be adapted to customer’s need with wide range of extension modules from TECHBASE. ModBerry equipped with CM3 can be configured to support chosen number of RS-232/485 serial ports, Digital and Analog I/Os, various setup of Ethernet/USB ports, CAN interface, 1-Wire and wireless modems: 3G/LTE, GPRS/EDGE, GPS, LoRa, ZigBee, Wireless M-Bus, NarrowBand-IoT and many more.

The updated M500 availability

Currently the updated M500 samples, are available on demand. Please contact TECHBASE’s sales department via http://modberry.techbase.eu/ contact form with specific requirements to receive an offer that will suit the project’s needs. Since the M300 update is still under the development, the pricing of each unit may vary on the basis of configuration and order quota

20 February 2018

ModBerry expands to the latest NanoPi & OrangePi platforms

NanoPi recent additions to ModBerry series

Introduced in November 2017, the ModBerry M300 series, based on NanoPi NEO revolutionised the economic segment of Industrial IoT devices and proved, that automation and monitoring can be done effectively with low expenditure on industrial installations.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2017/11/15/techbase-modberry%E2%80%8B-m300-linux-iot-gateway-%E2%80%8Bis-powered-by-nanopi-neo-board/

To ensure constant development of TECHBASE’s solutions and cutting-edge technology, the NanoPi platform part of ModBerry series is expanded by updated ModBerry M300 N2 product, based on NanoPi NEO2. The new addition features Quad-core Cortex-A53, twice more RAM than previous version of NanoPi NEO and Gigabit Ethernet for fast communication.

For even wider range of communication interfaces and application possibilities, TECHBASE offers now ModBerry M300 N2+ based on the NanoPi NEO Plus2. M300 N2+ is equipped with 8GB eMMC, features more USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet port like M300 N2 and is supported with onboard Wi-Fi/Blutetooth 4.0 to ensure many channels of data management.

ModBerry M300 series can optionally support an external 2.5″ SATA hard disk and 2242 SSD storage units with M.2 interface thanks to onboard JMS567 USB to SATA controller. With extra storage space, data management of specific installations would be more convenient than sending all unprocessed data into cloud or directly to user.

OrangePi capabilities

To meet the Industrial IoT market demands the ModBerry family joined new embedded computer platform, offering adjustable solutions for every industrial installation. ModBerry M300 O1/O2 series is formed by two OrangePi module boards offering different approach to IoT than NanoPi solutions.

ModBerry M300 O1 based on OrangePi Zero Plus features Allwinner H5 (Quad-core Cortex-A53) SoC, moderate 512MB RAM, storage memory option with microSD slot, USB and Gigabit Ethernet port. The wireless communication is supported with onboard Wi-Fi module.

Offering much higher performance and wider feature range, the ModBerry M300 O2 features same SoC as M300 series, but thanks to OrangePi Zero Plus2 means, the device is equipped with onboard 8GB eMMC, extra microSD expansion slot as alternative and wired/wireless interfaces, e.g. HDMI, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0.

ExCard modules to peak the performance

Every TECHBASE’s industrial computer is supported by ExCard add-on modules for extra RS-232/485 serial ports, Ethernet ports, PCIe slots, analog input and output, digital I/Os, relays, M-Bus interface, opto-isolation, accelerometer, etc. To provide specific communication paths, ModBerry can be rigged with additional Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module, 3G/LTE, NarrowBand-IoT, LoRa, ZigBee, GPS and Wireless M-Bus.

The latest options for ModBerry series are:

SuperCap expansion, to provide constant power supply as a UPS option
OLED 0.96” & new OLED 1,3″ screen, allowing the control without the need of connecting into the device
ESP32 module as a security chip, to add a firewall into control installation and ensure constant operation of the device, even with power drops and random events
Aluminum case, to grant much higher durability for extra harsh industrial conditions
Mentioned earlier SATA/M.2 SSD controller for extra data storage

The updated M300 availability

Currently all the updated M300 samples, including M300 N2, N2+, O1, O2 are available on demand. Please contact TECHBASE’s sales department via http://modberry.techbase.eu/ contact form with specific requirements to receive an offer that will suit the project’s needs. Since the M300 update is still under the development, specific datasheets will be available in mid-February. The pricing of each unit may vary on the basis of configuration and order quota.

27 November 2017

LORA MQTT: Perfect Couple – in RaspberryPi & ESP32 Ecosystem

TECHBASE Industrial Computers are designed for easy integration of LoRa / MQTT networks. ModBerry devices base on Raspberry Pi / NanoPi / Intel UpBoard platform communicate with both Cloud and Sensor layer (backed with ESP32 Moduino devices) of your installation via MQTT protocol. Gateway utilizes the features of many protocol libraries, such as original TECHBASE’s iMod protocol controller – installable both on the Gateway device itself or externally with wide range of possibilities (industrial computer, hosted server, etc.). Our devices fully support Node-RED, CODESYS, OpenHAB and many more open protocol libraries.

Wide range of protocol support

All TECHBASE’s solution can be empowered with iMod software incl. protocol support for industrial interfaces, e.g. M-Bus, Modbus, SNMP, MQTT. iMod software works seamlessly with Node-RED using MQTT protocol, allowing use of bacnet and direct control over devices I/Os with Google’s platform-neutral protobuf – extensible mechanism for serializing structured data and zeroMQ controls to connect the code in any modern language, on any platform. The protocol drivers library can be expanded with CODESYS development system to support PROFIBUS, CANopen, EtherCAT, PROFINET and EtherNet/IP.

iMod	M-Bus, Wireless M-Bus, Modbus TCP/RTU, SNMP, MQTT, SMS, E-MAIL, SQL/CSV
CODESYS	PROFIBUS, CANopen, EtherCAT, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP
Node-RED, etc.	MQTT, bacnet, eISCP
OpenHAB	Commercial product integration
Other open-source protocols	IEC 61850, IEC 60870-5-104, DLMS/COSEM, KNX, eHz meters, IEC 62056-21, REST

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19 July 2016

7-inch touch panels for building automation and more

In A2S.pl industrial automation calatogue you will find new devices from TPS series.

TPD-703 series are 7″ touch panels, equiped with TFT screen with 800x480px resolution.

The device has built-in 32-bit RISC processor, real time clock (RTC), a 64MB SDRAM, up to 64MB of flash memory and buzzer. TPD-703 offers RS485, RS-232 serial ports and Ethernet with PoE.

TPD panels series 703 can work in wide temperature range: from -10^oC up to +60^oC.

iMod i panele sterujące — iMod and control panels

The device manufacturer provides HMI Works software for building control systems using a typical ladder diagram LD and C language. It is also possible to create simple graphical visualizations.

With support of Modbus protocol TPD-703 panels are ideal for use with IoT iMod modules, NPE industrial computers as well as distributed digital / analog / relay I/O modules of M-7000 series.

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14 January 201510 March 2015

X500 – The new cloud version of our Modberry 500 device

X500 – Industrial Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

Techbase is proud to announce that your ModBerry Device is now cloud complient and ready!

Modberry 500 is the first industrial computer built exclusively on the Raspberry Pi Computer Module. Our Modberry 500 device has really taken the market by storm and is extremely popular within the industrial automation space.

Our mission at Techbase is to continually develop and push the boundaries of what is possible. We are actively working on introducing similar industrial grade devices: Our NPE industrial computer series for example which will be used globally within the industrial automation solutions space for many years to come.

The NPE X500 industrial computer is based on the same platform as our successful ModBerry 500, but offers the client many more possibilities from the onset by using our dedicated iMod software.

Our iMod X500 devices fully support the iModCloud operating system.

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13 January 201413 February 2015

First virtual automation controller operating in the cloud – iMod Engine

The iMod Engine solution is much more efficient than devices based on the industrial class hardware. It can manage a complex installation with multiple devices. Because the iMod configurations are compatible, it is possible to transfer demanding operations into iMod Engine. This way the end units with lower efficiency (iMod Gate) can be limited to certain tasks, e.g. collecting data and transferring it to the iMod Engine for further analysis, generating graphs or process visualization.

Such configuration transfer does not limit the alarm feature – it is independent. It means that the iMod Engine alerts when connection with the iMod Gate end device is lost and the end device alerts when connection with the cloud is lost. Alert will differ depending on the connected components, e.g. SMS, email, light or sound signals.

The iMod platform enables you to store objects using API. You can define your own data source channel, through which you can send pictures, audio files, videos or any binary string to the iMod platform. Data is saved into database and can be viewed on a website.

Check out the possibilities of the iMod telemetry module.

We have prepared more than 100 event configurations, which you can save to your iMod configuration.

Examples:

Edge-triggered event (EDGE=HIGH)
Edge-triggered event (EDGE=LOW)
constant event triggering when a condition is satisfied (EDGE=NO)
triggering event both when the edge condition is satisfied and when the edge condition is not satisfied (EDGE=BOTH)

See how the iMod will improve the operation of your installation

The iMod platform allows to execute tasks at a specified time.

It doesn’t matter if you are interested in the values recorded at 11:00 or 2:00, iMod will read values at any time you specify.

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If you would like to know more about this product or any of our other services, please do not hesitate to contact one of our sales consultants today!