Arduino Edge Control Board

Arduino Edge Control Board is a remote monitoring and control solution optimized for outdoor environments. It collects real-time data from smart sensors and leverages all on the edge. The board is positioned anywhere and is suitable for precision farming, smart agriculture, and other applications requiring intelligent control in remote locations. Power can be either supplied via solar panel or DC input. Remotely control applications through the Arduino Cloud (or third-party services) using a choice of connectivity options suitable to the location. The Arduino Edge Control features built-in BLUETOOTH®, and its connectivity can be expanded with 2G/3G/CatM1/NB-IoT modems, LoRa®, Sigfox, and Wi-Fi® by adding any of the MKR boards.

Features

Collects real-time data from smart sensors and leverages all on the edge
Suitable for precision farming, smart agriculture, and other applications requiring intelligent control in remote locations
Power can be either supplied via solar panel or DC input

Remotely control applications through the Arduino Cloud (or third-party services) using connectivity options suitable to the location
Built-in Bluetooth and connectivity expanded with 2G/3G/CatM1/NB-IoT modems, LoRa®, Sigfox, and WiFi by adding MKR boards

Applications

Automated greenhouses
Hydroponics/aquaponics
Mushroom cultivation

Specifications

Microcontroller
- nRF52840 (64MHz Arm® Cortex-M4F)
Digital Input
- 6x edge-sensitive wake-up pins
Digital Output
- 8x latching relay command outputs with drivers
- 8x latching relay command outputs without drivers
Relays
- 4x 60V/2.5A galvanically isolated solid-state relays
Analog Input
- 4x 4mA to 20mA inputs
- 8x 0V to 5V analog inputs
- 16x hydrostatic watermark sensor input
Terminal Block Connectors
- 6x 18-pin plug-in terminal block connectors
Power Supply
- 12V Acid/lead SLA Battery Supply
- (Recharged via solar panels)
Power Consumption
- Low power (up to 34 months on a 12V/5Ah battery)
- 200uA Sleep current

Memory
- 1MB onboard Flash memory
- 2MB onboard QSPI Flash memory
SD Card
- Interface for SD Card connector (through expansion port only)
Connectivity
- Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi*
- 3G*NB-IoT*
- LoRaWAN®*
- * Requires Arduino MKR board
Peripherals
- Full-speed 12Mbps USB
- Arm CryptoCell CC310 security subsystem
- QSPI/SPI/TWI/I²S/PDM/QDEC
- High-speed 32MHz SPI
- Quad SPI interface 32MHz
- 12-bit 200ksps ADC
- 128 bit AES/ECB/CCM/AAR co-processor
Operational temperature -40°C to +85°C
Length 104mm
Width 86mm