Boron LTE Kit (US)

Description

The Boron LTE is a powerful LTE CAT-M1/NB1 enabled development kit that can act as either a standalone cellular endpoint or LTE enabled gateway for Particle Mesh networks. It is based on the Nordic nRF52840 and has built-in battery charging circuitry so it’s easy to connect a Li-Po and deploy your local network in minutes.

The Boron is great for connecting existing projects to the Particle Device Cloud or as a gateway to connect an entire group of local endpoints where Wi-Fi is missing or unreliable.

All Particle hardware is designed from the ground up to work with the Device Cloud; a powerful set of tools and infrastructure to build, connect, and manage your IoT fleet. The Device Cloud for Particle Mesh is priced by network. All Particle customers get 3 free months of Device Cloud access for micro networks using a cellular gateway. A micro network is defined as a network with 10 total devices and a single gateway. Please refer to our pricing documentation for more information.

Contents:

• Boron LTE dev board
• Mini breadboard
• Cellular flex antenna
• USB cable
• Starter project includes two resistors (220 ohm), one red LED, and one photodiode

Specs:

• u-blox SARA R410 LTE modem 
  
  - LTE CAT M1/ NB1 module with global hardware support (MVNO support for US only) 
  
  - 3GPP Release 13 LTE Cat M1
• Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 SoC 
  
  - ARM Cortex-M4F 32-bit processor @ 64MHz 
  
  - 1MB flash, 256KB RAM 
  
  - IEEE 802.15.4-2006: 250 Kbps 
  
  - Bluetooth 5: 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, 500 Kbps, 125 Kbps 
  
  - Supports DSP instructions, HW accelerated Floating Point Unit (FPU) calculations 
  
  - ARM TrustZone CryptoCell-310 Cryptographic and security module 
  
  - Up to +8 dBm TX power (down to -20 dBm in 4 dB steps) 
  
  - NFC-A tag
• On-board additional 2MB SPI flash
• 20 mixed signal GPIO (6 x Analog, 8 x PWM), UART, I2C, SPI
• Micro USB 2.0 full speed (12 Mbps)
• Integrated Li-Po charging and battery connector
• JTAG (SWD) Connector
• RGB status LED
• Reset and Mode buttons
• Dual SIM support: Nano 4FF (unpopulated) and MFF2
• U.FL connector for external antenna
• Meets the Feather specification in dimensions and pinout
• FCC and PTCRB certified
• RoHS compliant (lead-free)