Cicerone Board: LoRaWAN & GPS – Asset Tracking & Remote Weather Station Demo!

The Cicerone board from Move-X is an STM32WLE powered device featuring LoRa connectivity and GPS functionality via a MAX-M10S module. The Cicerone board is perfect for tracking applications that need meter-level accuracy and long-range low-power LoRaWAN connectivity. This combination is perfect for long-range wireless connectivity in power-constrained applications. The board is designed to extend the battery life of IoT asset tracking applications thanks to an on-board LiPo charger as well as u-blox CloudLocate positioning. It features 128KB of flash and 48KB of RAM and the LoRa connectivity is provided by the Semtech SX1261 radio.

Project write-ups (work in progress):

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:40 Features
04:14 Arduino IDE Programming
04:33 Pricing
05:00 Solar Weather Station
08:23 Long Range Asset Tracker
10:20 UBlox CloudLocate
11:00 Conclusion

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[elijah_]

Good overview! Thank you for the quality content.

[LearnEmbeddedSystems]

Correction to weather station code:

As the Cicerone board is based on the STM32WLExx microcontroller, there is a different working mode of the internal ADC compared to the one inside Arduino MKR boards.
The difference is in the voltage reference: in Arduino MKR the default reference is Vcc (3.3V) so you don’t have to do anything in “setup” section of the sketch code; instead, the Cicerone board the default reference is expected to be present on VREF pin by an external voltage source (i.e. you have to connect that pin to 3.3v for example).

To avoid external voltage reference is using the internal one (2.5 volt); you can call “analogReference(mode)” passing the “mode” argument as INTERNAL. This means that maximum readable voltage is now 2.5 volt, and you have to scale readings (see Battery_VoltageMonitor example under File->Examples->Cicerone_Demo if you install the cicerone board to the Arduino IDE).

[MattFordPhotographer]

Great video, I used some of your code for the starting point on my project (using different sensors) but I'm keep on getting a send error because it's saying the network wasn't joined. Any tips? I'm pretty sure I have all the keys entered correctly

[joseph]

How accurate is the GPS when driving along at say 10 to 20 miles per hour?

Was thinking might be good for driving in a straight line when spreading fertilizer with a farm tractor.

[amiral]

Hope they have a customer support, I received a response for an important design question after 1 month.

[naproctor]

Thank you for an interesting Video. i have watched a few of yours and more from others on LoRa. The project i have in mind is a GPS tracking device using LoRa in remote locations, with one or 2 repeaters, and no internet or GSM. The location would be shown on my phone on local maps useing a mapping software app installed. i would like to be able to control the tracker remotely via LoRa also, ie: sleep time, TX power, i do have some electronic experience and a small amount of Arduino experience. Can you advise me on where or what i should be researching to achieve my goal. Thank you in advance.

[abidibrahim]

Can you do video about TinyUSB library and Raspberry Pi Pico?

[raspberrypi]

Can this be used without a LoRa Gateway?

[IamTheHolypumpkin]

My Project Idea, track by bike with GPS and send it the Home Assitant via LoRA, change the battery via the generator of my bike.

[chenzora]

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