Developer Kit Accelerates Prototyping of Low-Power IoT Device Clusters

With its Sparrow development kit, Blues Wireless offers designers a quick route to implementation of LoRa-based device clusters, reducing operating costs in fixed-location deployments.

Alix Paultre

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Microwaves & RF

Aug. 23, 2022

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With the launch of its Sparrow development kit, Blues Wireless hopes to offer a solution for the last-mile problem of internet-connecting a group of low-cost, low-power device sensors for shared data backhaul to the cloud. The kit provides a complete solution, with reference hardware, example firmware, and an easy-to-deploy web application. The power-efficient Sparrow Gateway provides cellular or Wi-Fi backhaul and orchestrates LoRa-based communication with Sparrow sensors.

In the Sparrow schema, sensors are organized into clusters, and LoRa-based sensor data is routed through inexpensive Notecard-powered cellular gateways. The Notecard's developer experience is designed to simplify cellular, democratizing a capability formerly only available to large engineering firms. The full range of Notecard offerings simplify wireless across cellular, Wi-Fi, and LPWAN technologies.

About the Author

Alix Paultre

Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF

Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF.

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.

Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.