Description

Unleash the global connectivity and positioning capabilities of your Portenta or MKR board with the Arduino® Portenta Cat. M1/NB IoT GNSS Shield. This shield enables cellular connectivity to both Cat. M1 and NB-IoT networks. Easily track your valuable assets across the city or worldwide with your choice of GPS, GLONASS, Galileo or BeiDou.

Features

Note: This board requires a compatible MKR or Portenta board to function. Its use together with the Arduino

Portenta Vision Shield is not supported.

Cinterion TX62 wireless module

Cellular connectivity and positioning support

Embedded IPv4 and IPv6 TCP/IP stack access

Internet Services

TCP server/client

UDP client

DNS

Ping

HTTP client

FTP client

MQTT client Secure Connection with TLS/DTLS Secure boot

Cellular Connectivity

LTE Cat. M1/NB1/NB2

3GPP Rel.14 Compliant Protocol LTE Cat. M1/NB1/NB2

(UMTS BANDS: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 8 / 1217) / 13 / 18 / 19 / 20 / 25 / 26 / 27 / 28 / 66 / 71 / 85

LTE Bands

LTE Cat.M1 DL: max. 300 kbps, UL: max. 1.1 Mbps

LTE Cat.NB1 DL: max. 27 kbps, UL: max. 63 kbps

LTE Cat.NB2 DL: max. 124 kbps, UL: max. 158 kbps

Short Messaging Service (SMS)

Point-to-point mobile terminated (MT) and mobile originated (MO)

Text Mode

Protocol Data Unit (PDU) Mode

Positioning Support

Multiple GNSS Support

GPS

GLONASS

Galileo

BeiDou

MKR and Portenta Compatible

MKR requires headers