Arduino PRO: AI-capable sensor, MCU, and Linux boards

In our penultimate interview from the centre of the Arduino Village at Maker Faire Rome 2023, ipXchange chats with Marta about three pre-certified, industrial-grade boards from Arduino’s PRO line of products. If you love Arduino’s ease-of-use and well-documented open-source ecosystem, consider these as an alternative to devices from Texas Instruments, Schneider Electric, and even Raspberry Pi, as much as we love them here at ipXchange…

First to be covered is the Nicla Sense ME, as shown as part of a predictive maintenance demo. This compact board, based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52832 Bluetooth SoC, features four state-of-the-art sensors from Bosch Sensortec – of the motion and environmental variety, hence ‘sensor ME’ – and a crazily low current draw of just 460 µA in standby mode or 2.5 mA advertising with sensor polling at 1 Hz, enabling always-on sensor nodes for many IoT and industrial applications.

With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and carrier boards to allow for quick interfacing with CAN, ethernet, USB peripherals, and more, the Portenta C33 and X8 should be next on your list for putting into an industrial build with a tight deadline. For those with a collection of Raspberry Pi HATs, there is even a Raspberry-Pi-compatible carrier board, so check out the links above and apply to evaluate these great solutions for your next commercial project. One more Arduino interview to go!

Keep designing!