Click Board Delivers Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE Connectivity to IoT
With an integrated Stephano-I (2617011025000) Würth radio module for low-power wireless connectivity between smart devices and the cloud, the Stephano-I Click Board from MikroE can add Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) connectivity to any embedded application.
The latest member of the company's 1,800-strong mikroBUS-enabled Click Board family, the Stephano-I module supports IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi in the 2.4-GHz band and Bluetooth LE 5 in both peripheral and central roles. In addition, there's dual radio support and an AT command interface over UART with a 1-Mb/s data rate, Wi-Fi output power up to 13.4 dBm, and Bluetooth LE output power up to 4.5 dBm.
The Click Board offers standard UART communication pins, hardware flow control, reset and wake-up options, and additional unpopulated debug and boot control pins for advanced functionality.
Compatible with the mikroBUS socket, the Stephano-I Click can be used on any host system supporting the mikroBUS standard. It comes with mikroSDK open-source libraries for evaluation and customization. The board also features the ClickID function, which enables the host system to automatically detect and identify it.
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Alix Paultre
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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.