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Metropolitan Area Network Development Tower^® System Kit

TWR-METRO-KIT: Metropolitan Area Network Development Tower^® System Kit ARCHIVED

Overview

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Metropolitan Area Networks are ideal for demanding applications such as "last mile" smart metering communication and street lighting control. A Metropolitan Area Network is typically defined by extreme reliability over many miles of distance while serving thousands of nodes per edge router or data concentrator with each node capable of meshing at dozens of hop levels deep.

The kit contains two wireless end-nodes that are either line or battery-powered, and one wireless edge-router which connects to a PC or notebook, forming a solid basis to begin network evaluation and development. The kit can be easily expanded to support up to 20 end-nodes.

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Freescale Tower System TWR-METRO-KIT Block Diagram

Specifications

Technical and Functional Specifications

Nivis Smart Object Radio Module	Certified for Multiple World Areas (902-928 MHz US/Canada, 921.4-928 MHz Japan, 863-870 MHz Europe coming soon) Communication stack from Nivis based on IEEE and open communications standards (CoAP, UDP, IPv6/6LoWPAN, RPL, ICMP, 802.15.4e time syncrhonized channel hopping (TSCH) MAC, and 802.15.4g PHY) Kinetis ^® K-Series MCU with crypto acceleration unit for AES128 link layer security MC12311 sub-GHz radio, GFSK -120dBm @1.2 Kbps, +15 dBm power output without amp Simple API interface to external MCU powered devices allowing quick wireless enablement External flash for over-the-air (OTA) updates Sold separately by Nivis in volume for field trials and pilots
METRO-NODE-NA/JA	Nivis Smart Object Radio Module with +0 dBm quarter-wave omni-directional antenna Battery or USB Line powered Potentiometer analog value, discrete switch, and battery power for easy demonstration External SPI/UART Header for easy integraton of external PCBs to the Nivis Smart Object Radio Module
TWR-METRO-NA/JA	TWR-TWRPI-BD carrier board Nivis Smart Object Radio Module with +0dBm quarter-wave omni-directional antenna Allows connection of Nivis Smart Radio Module to any Tower ^® based MCU/MPU via SPI or UART to create your own end node and use other Tower boards in the Tower Eco-system such as sensors
TWR-P1025	QorIQ ^®P1025 dual-core processor 512 MB of DDR3 memory Two RGMII Gigabit Ethernet interfaces One PCIe interface x1 (mini-PCIe+USB) Nivis Edge Router software to manage the mesh network

TWR-METRO-KIT: Metropolitan Area Network Development Tower® System Kit ARCHIVED

Overview

Specifications

Technical and Functional Specifications

TWR-METRO-KIT: Metropolitan Area Network Development Tower^® System Kit ARCHIVED