Particle Boron IoT Development Board (Cellular+Mesh+Bluetooth)

Note: Particle’s MVNO will provide support for LTE M1 connectivity in the US upon initial release. Not in the region? Check out the Boron 2G/3G Kit. See the cellular FAQ for details.

The Boron LTE is a powerful LTE CAT-M1/NB1 enabled development board that can act as either a standalone cellular endpoint or LTE enabled gateway for Particle Mesh networks. It is based on the Nordic nRF52840 and has built-in battery charging circuitry so it’s easy to connect a Li-Po and deploy your local network in minutes.

The Boron is great for connecting existing projects to the Particle Device Cloud or as a gateway to connect an entire group of local endpoints where Wi-Fi is missing or unreliable.

All Particle hardware is designed from the ground up to work with the Device Cloud; a powerful set of tools and infrastructure to build, connect, and manage your IoT fleet. The Device Cloud for Particle Mesh is priced by network. All Particle customers get 3 free months of Device Cloud access for micro networks using a cellular gateway. A micro network is defined as a network with 10 total devices and a single gateway. Please refer to our pricing documentation for more information.

Features:

• u-blox SARA R410 LTE modem 

  - LTE CAT M1/ NB1 module with global hardware support (MVNO support for US only) 
  

  - 3GPP Release 13 LTE Cat M1
  

• Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 SoC 

  - ARM Cortex-M4F 32-bit processor @ 64MHz     

  - 1MB flash, 256KB RAM 
  

  - IEEE 802.15.4-2006: 250 Kbps 
  

  - Bluetooth 5: 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, 500 Kbps, 125 Kbps   

  - Supports DSP instructions, HW accelerated Floating Point Unit (FPU) calculations   

  - ARM TrustZone CryptoCell-310 Cryptographic and security module    

  - Up to +8 dBm TX power (down to -20 dBm in 4 dB steps)    

  - NFC-A tag     

• On-board additional 2MB SPI flash

• 20 mixed signal GPIO (6 x Analog, 8 x PWM), UART, I2C, SPI

• Micro USB 2.0 full speed (12 Mbps)

• Integrated Li-Po charging and battery connector

• JTAG (SWD) Connector

• RGB status LED

• Reset and Mode buttons

• Dual SIM support: Nano 4FF (unpopulated) and MFF2

• U.FL connector for external antenna

• Meets the Feather specification in dimensions and pinout

• FCC and PTCRB certified

• RoHS compliant (lead-free)