Hardware Guide

Version: 1.0.1
Date: March 2016

This page deals with the various types of Nodes (hardware) connected to the LoRa network. For each project I try to document the design decisions I have taken (if any), document pin-outs etc. and publish some pictures of the project in its various stages of development.

Structure of this document

This document is structured around hardware families for MCU that support thethingsnetwork.org. For every family one or more nodes and/or sensors based on these nodes are described.

Table of contents

• MCU modules
  • ESP8266 Nodes
    • ESP Family overview
    • ESP Sensor Node (simple)
    • ESP Sensor temperature sensor node
  • Arduino
    • Arduino Pro Mini minimal node
    • Arduino Pro Mini lowpower node
    • Arduino Pro-Mini OTAA mote
  • Teensy
    • Teensy mote (no sensors)
    • Teensy GPS sensor node
  • Raspberry
    • Single Channel Gateway
• Transceivers
  • RFM95w
  • sx1276
  • inAIR9
• Sensor modules
  • DS18B20 Temperature Sensor
  • HTU21d Temperature and Humidity Sensor
  • BMP180 Temperature and Airpressure Sensor
• GPS
  • NEO6 based GPS Sensor
• Gateway
  • Single Channel Gateway based on RaspberryPI and RFM95
  • Simple Single Channel Gateway based on ESP8266 board
  • ESP Gateway version 3.3
  • ESP Gateway version 4.x
  • Build your own gateway with the IMST IC880

Supported Devices

The following devices are tested with software on http://github.io/things4u

• Mini Software (Minimal stack based on Nexus example of Ideetron)
  • Arduino Pro-Mini, with HTU21d sensor
• LIRC-v1.5:
  • Wemos D1-mini
  • Pro-Mini
  • Teensy LC