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RS Components Brings Thunderboard and Raspberry Pi Together in Dev Kit

10/304/2018 | 03:55 PM
Lance Looper
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Earlier this month, UK-based RS Components announced the UrsaLeo Pi development kit, aimed at making IoT projects more accessible by combining our Thunderboard Sense 2 and a Raspberry Pi development board. Eric Brown over at Technologic Systems had this to say about the new development kit:

 

UrsaLeo’s kit, which was recently introduced by Mouser under its original “UrsaLeo UL-RPI1S2R2” name, is designed to send sensor input to Google Cloud for storage and analytics. The kit is designed for Industry 4.0, automotive diagnostics, healthcare, and general data monitoring.

The UrsaLeo Pi offers the same Silicon Labs Thunderboard Sense 2 sensor board found on UrsaLeo’s earlier UrsaLeo UrsaCloud UltraLite, also called the UrsaLeo UltraLite or UL-NXP1S2R2. While the UltraLite kit combines the Thunderboard 2 with NXP’s official development board for its Cortex-A7 based iMX6 UltraLite (UL) SoC, the UrsaLeo Pi uses a more powerful Raspberry Pi 3 SBC.

The UltraLite version offers more better debugging functionality than the Pi, as well as reduced “restrictions on hardware re-use,” says RS Components. However, the Pi version is faster and much cheaper. It costs 154 Pounds ($197) without VAT at RS Components compared to 455 Pounds ($582) for the UltraLite. Mouser’s prices are $195 and $550, respectively.

The Thunderboard Sensor 2 (or Thunderboard 2) board provides temperature, humidity, UV, ambient light, barometric pressure, indoor air quality, and gas sensors. You also get a 6-axis inertial sensor, a digital microphone, and a Hall sensor. The board is equipped with Silicon Labs’ EFR32 Mighty Gecko multi-protocol radio, which supports 2.4GHz wireless technologies such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Thread, ZigBee, or proprietary short-range protocols.

The kit is pre-loaded with an OTA-updatable Linux stack based on Yocto Project code. It automatically links up to a pre-registered Google Cloud account. Up to 50MB of data per month can be sent to the cloud platform free of charge. 

A customizable dashboard “allows users to view sensor data and launch IoT applications such as storage and analytics,” says RS Components. The dashboard, which can be shared with third parties, is said to streamline the addition of new sensors and support user-definable events to trigger alerts. 

Sample applications and APIs are provided to manage sensors, run diagnostics, and share information with enterprise or business intelligence applications. 

 

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