Electronics Weekly
Jennic is offering a wireless sensor network starter kit for developing IEEE802.15.4 and ZigBee products based on its single chip wireless microcontroller device.
The kit includes sample demonstrations that highlight the potential for remote monitoring and control applications based on the wireless standard.
One of the demonstrations is a remote sensor monitoring network, which reads environmental data from each of the nodes and displays the results on a PC terminal. A second demonstrates how a wireless light switch network can be developed.
The starter kit contains three battery-powered nodes each with the firm’s JN5121 single chip IEEE802.15.4-compliant system-on-chip wireless microcontroller mounted on an RF module, and incorporating LEDs, push button switches, temperature, humidity and light sensors and an IO expansion port.
Two nodes have sub-miniature ceramic antennas; the other node has a removable external antenna enabling connection to test equipment.
The kit also includes a suite of library functions that provide all the elements required to build network products based on the IEEE802.15.4 standard, including device drivers, typical sensor and control drivers; these are backed up with example applications showing a star network with central co-ordinator node and endpoints. The development environment features a complete, unrestricted tool chain and is based upon the GNU C-compiler, assembler, debugger, device programmer and download tools.
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