NB-IoT Sensor Shield ARDUINO COMPATIBILITY PROVIDES ULTIMATE FLEXIBILITY The Avnet Silica NB-IoT Sensor Shield is a Cat M1 and NB-IoT board providing Arduino pinout connectors. The Arduino compatibility provides ultimate flexibility, leveraging on a huge ecosystem of compatible boards. It enables you to choose the microcontroller board that best fits your application, like STM32 Nucleo Boards, and combine them with sensors and other peripheral boards as needed. The NB-IoT Sensor Shield is equipped with Pmod connectors for an extended compatibility with addional boards. The shield is based on Quectel BG96, a low power module supporting Cat M1, Cat NB1 and EGPRS fallback. GNSS is also supported. With AT commands Avnet Silicas NB-IoT Sensor Shield is easy to program and supports mbed OS for quick development and leveraging on free stacks like SSL, MQTT, COAP etc. FEATURES Based on Quectel LPWA Module BG96 Multi Modes: Cat.M1, Cat.NB1, EGPRS Global bands - Cat M1/NB1: B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B8 B12 B13 B18 B19 B20 B26 B28 B39 (B39 for Cat M1 only) - EGPRS: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz Low Power Consumption - Approx. 10 uA in PSM mode Optional GNSS - GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou/Compass, Galileo, QZSS Voice Over LTE support (M1 only) - PCM digital audio interface Connectors - Sim holder - Arduino pinout - Pmod Software - AT Commands support - Built in support for PPP/TCP/UDP/SSL/TLS/FTP(S)/HTTP(S) - S upport for major operating system Android, Linux, Windows - Support for mbed OS for integrated embedded developmentNB-IoT Sensor Shield BLOCK DIAGRAM Native USB SIM connector interface ARDUINO 1 Quectel BG96 interface M1/NB-IoT Modem PMOD 4 (UART) SLM 97CIFX8000 interface Embedded SIM (optional) LTE COMPARISON Rel-8 Cat.4 Rel-11 Cat.1 Rel-13 Cat.M1 Rel-13 NB-IoT Downlink Peak Rate 150Mbps 10Mbps 1Mbps <100Kbps Uplink Peak Rate 50Mbps 5Mbps 1Mbps (Full Dup.) <100Kbps Coverage MCL 140.7dB 140.7dB 155.7dB 164dB (Minimum Coupling Loss) Battery Life (200 bytes/day) <1 year <1 year ~10 years ~10 years Number of Antennas 2 2 1 1 UE Receive Bandwidth 20MHz 20MHz 1.4MHz 200KHz UE Transmit Power 23dBm 23dBm 23dBm 23dBm Standard Readiness Now Now Now Now Network Readiness Now Now Now * Now * * Network availability depends on geographic area COMPARISION WITHIN LPWAN TECHNOLOGIES NB-IoT CAT M1 LoRa (Semtech) UNB (Sigfox) Unlicensed Unlicensed Spectrum LTE & 2G Bands LTE & 2G Bands 433/868MHz 902MHz pi/4 QPSK QPSK Chirp Spread Modulation & Demodulation FSK pi/2 BPSK QAM Spectrum Uplink Data Rate < 100kbps 1Mbps < 10kbps < 0.1kbps Bandwidth 200kHz 1.4MHz 125-500kHz 100kHz Transmit Power 23dBm 23dBm 14dBm 14dBm Mostly Network S/W Upgrad Green Field Green Field S/W Upgrad Terminal Price ~2G Price ~2G Price ~2G Price ~2G Price Battery Life (200Byte/day) >10 years >10 years >10 years >10 years 164dB 155.7dB 157dB 16dB EU MCL Coverage ~15km ~15km ~15km ~12km Standard Open 3GPP Open 3GPP Proprietary Proprietary AVS-096-E NB-IoT-Shield product-brief January 2018 avnet-silica.com/nbiotshield