lairdcp / pinnacle_100_oob_demo

Pinnacle 100 Out of Box Demo Firmware

Pinnacle 100 Out of Box Demo

Note: Not recommended for new designs. Use https://github.com/LairdCP/Pinnacle-100-Firmware-Manifest.

Download firmware releases from here!

The Pinnacle 100 Out of Box Demo (OOB Demo) is designed to showcase gathering sensor data over BLE and transferring it to the cloud. The demo can operate in two modes:

• LTE-M and AWS
• NB-IoT and LwM2M

These two modes are selected at compile time. See the following sections for documentation on the demo and how it operates.

LTE-M and AWS

The default build task is setup to build the demo source code for LTE-M and AWS operation. Read here for details on how the demo operates.

NB-IoT and LwM2M

The OOB Demo can be compiled to work with NB-IoT and LwM2M communication to the cloud with the build lwm2m task in tasks.json.

For more details on the LwM2M demo, read here.

Firmware Updates

Read here for instructions on how to update firmware running on the Pinnacle 100 modem.

Development

Cloning and Building the Source

This is a Zephyr-based repository, DO NOT git clone this repo. To clone and build the project properly, please see the instructions in the Pinnacle_100_OOB_Demo_Manifest repository.

BLE Profiles

Details on the BLE profiles used to interface with the mobile app can be found here

Development and Debug

See here for details on developing and debugging this app.

pinnacle_100_oob_demo's Issues

BLE - Thread - Border Router

Hi Laird Team,
Thanks for this excellent getting started point. I am currently evaluating the Pinnacle 100 for a series of projects - and I also took a deep dive into Thread-Protocol and BLE.

The Thread-Protocol seems to have many advantages like a more homogenous network - the Pinnacle would act as Border Router. For this (quite advanced) demo, you are using BLE and I am curious why you came to this decision and why Thread was not the first choice for a sensor network like that one you are proposing in this repository?

I am also trying to start a discussion about creating a Thread border router based on the Pinnacle 100 on the Zephyr mailing list, so maybe there is a chance to get some Input also from your side? Zephyr states that it is able to start multiple network interfaces at the same time, but no automatic routing is applied between those networks. Maybe you could add some comments from your side: What is your opinion about using the Pinnacle as a Thread border router? For more industrial applications like mine, there is no need for a User Interface running on the router, I could simply pre-provision the device so that it can connect to thread.

This would, at least as I have understood, allow each sensor to directly connect to the cloud without the interaction of the border router, and updates could be sent from the cloud to each sensor node as each device is transparently interacting in the network.