RAK5010
Overview
WisTrio NB-IoT Tracker Pro (RAK5010) is a tracker with integrated LTE CAT M1 & NB1, GPS, BLE, and sensors. It is built on the Quectel BG96 LTE CAT M1 & NB1 module, which has an integrated GPS receiver. The MCU running the board is a Nordic nRF52840 controller.
As it has both GPS and BLE it can be used for outdoor and indoor scenarios, where location-based services need be present.
The built-in sensors for RAK5010 are temperature and humidity sensor, motion sensor, pressure sensor, and light sensor. The extension IOs allow adding more sensors in addition to the on-board ones.
This board is particularly suitable to be used as a quick testing and prototyping tool for applications requiring NB-IoT connectivity. Application development supports the GCC environment.
Hardware
nRF52840 ARM Cortex-M4F Processor
32.768 kHz crystal oscillator
1 Micro-AB USB OTG host/device
Quectel BG96, with LTE CAT M1, LTE NB1, and GNSS
iPEX connectors for the LTE and GPS antenna and an on-board ceramic antenna for the BLE.
nano-SIM and ESIM options.
Multiple interfaces, I2C, UART, GPIO, ADC
1 user LED
1 SHTC3 Humidity and Temperature Sensor
1 OPT3001DNPR Ambient Light Sensor
1 LPS22HB Pressure Sensor
1 LIS3DH Motion Sensor
Powered by either Micro USB, 3.7V rechargeable battery or a 5V Solar Panel Port
Supported Features
The rak5010 board supports the hardware features listed below.
- on-chip / on-board
- Feature integrated in the SoC / present on the board.
- 2 / 2
-
Number of instances that are enabled / disabled.
Click on the label to see the first instance of this feature in the board/SoC DTS files. -
vnd,foo -
Compatible string for the Devicetree binding matching the feature.
Click on the link to view the binding documentation.
Type |
Location |
Description |
Compatible |
|---|---|---|---|
CPU |
on-chip |
ARM Cortex-M4F CPU1 |
|
ADC |
on-chip |
Nordic Semiconductor nRF family SAADC node1 |
|
ARM architecture |
on-chip |
Nordic UICR (User Information Configuration Registers)1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic EGU (Event Generator Unit)6 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family ACL (Access Control List)1 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family MWU (Memory Watch Unit)1 |
||
Audio |
on-chip |
Nordic PDM (Pulse Density Modulation interface)1 |
|
Clock control |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF clock control node1 |
|
Comparator |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF COMP (analog COMParator)1 |
|
Counter |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF timer node5 |
|
Cryptographic accelerator |
on-chip |
Nordic ECB (AES electronic codebook mode encryption)1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family CCM (AES CCM mode encryption)1 |
||
on-chip |
ARM TrustZone CryptoCell 3101 |
||
Debug |
on-chip |
ARMv7 instrumentation trace macrocell1 |
|
Flash controller |
on-chip |
Nordic NVMC (Non-Volatile Memory Controller)1 |
|
on-chip |
Properties defining the interface for the Nordic QSPI peripheral1 |
||
GPIO & Headers |
on-chip |
NRF5 GPIOTE1 |
|
on-chip |
NRF5 GPIO2 |
||
I2C |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family TWIM (TWI master with EasyDMA)1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family TWI (TWI master)1 |
||
I2S |
on-chip |
Nordic I2S (Inter-IC sound interface)1 |
|
IEEE 802.15.4 |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF IEEE 802.15.4 node1 |
|
Interrupt controller |
on-chip |
ARMv7-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller)1 |
|
LED |
on-board |
Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1 |
|
Miscellaneous |
on-chip |
Nordic FICR (Factory Information Configuration Registers)1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family PPI (Programmable Peripheral Interconnect)1 |
||
Modem |
on-board |
Quectel BG95 modem1 |
|
MTD |
on-chip |
Flash node1 |
|
on-chip |
Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1 |
||
on-board |
QSPI NOR flash supporting the JEDEC CFI interface1 |
||
Networking |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family RADIO peripheral1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family NFCT (Near Field Communication Tag)1 |
||
Pin control |
on-chip |
The nRF pin controller is a singleton node responsible for controlling pin function selection and pin properties1 |
|
Power management |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF power control node1 |
|
PWM |
on-chip |
nRF PWM4 |
|
on-chip |
nRFx S/W PWM1 |
||
Regulator |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF5X regulator (fixed stage of the core supply)1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF52X regulator (high voltage stage of the main supply)1 |
||
Retained memory |
on-chip |
Nordic GPREGRET (General Purpose Register Retention) device2 |
|
RNG |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family RNG (Random Number Generator)1 |
|
RTC |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF RTC (Real-Time Counter)3 |
|
Sensors |
on-board |
Texas Instruments OPT3001 ambient light sensor1 |
|
on-board |
STMicroelectronics LIS3DH 3-axis accelerometer1 |
||
on-board |
STMicroelectronics LPS22HB pressure sensor1 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family TEMP node1 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic nRF quadrature decoder (QDEC) node1 |
||
Serial controller |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family UARTE (UART with EasyDMA)2 |
|
SPI |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family SPIM (SPI master with EasyDMA)4 |
|
SRAM |
on-chip |
Generic on-chip SRAM description1 |
|
Timer |
on-chip |
ARMv7-M System Tick1 |
|
USB |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF52 USB device controller1 |
|
Watchdog |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family WDT (Watchdog Timer)1 |
Connections and IOs
LED
LED0 (green) = P0.12
Programming and Debugging
The RAK5010 board shall be connected to a Segger Embedded Debugger Unit J-Link OB. This provides a debug interface to the NRF52840 chip. You can use JLink to communicate with the NRF52840.
Flashing
Download JLink from the Segger JLink Downloads Page [1]. Go to the section “J-Link Software and Documentation Pack” and install the “J-Link Software and Documentation pack for Linux”. The application JLinkExe needs to be accessible from your path.
Run your favorite terminal program to listen for output. Under Linux the terminal should be
/dev/ttyACM0. For example:$ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0 -o
The -o option tells minicom not to send the modem initialization string. Connection should be configured as follows:
Speed: 115200
Data: 8 bits
Parity: None
Stop bits: 1
Connect the RAK5010 board to your host computer using the USB debug port. Then build and flash the Hello World application.
# From the root of the zephyr repository west build -b rak5010/nrf52840 samples/hello_world west flash
You should see “Hello World! rak5010_nrf52840” in your terminal.
Debugging
You can debug an application in the usual way. Here is an example for the Hello World application.
# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b rak5010/nrf52840 samples/hello_world
west debug