New IoT Hardware: ClimaStick!

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ClimaStick, a complete IoT development kit

We are so proud to announce a new hardware development kit designed by the Thinger.io team! After more than one year of design and testing, here is the board: ClimaStick.

This board is a complete Internet of Things development kit that integrates WiFi connectivity along with a set of powerful sensors to provide environmental and motion sensing. This way, it is possible to create several connected projects easily. It is fully compatible with the Thinger.io cloud infrastructure, and provides easy to use libraries that can be used in the Arduino IDE.

At launch, in March 2017, the board was available to purchase directly from the Thinger.io store.

Board features

Sensors, battery and Arduino on one stick

Environmental sensing, a full IMU, a Li-Po charger, an RGB LED and a user button, programmed from the Arduino IDE.

ClimaStick at a glance

Environmental sensing: A micro weather station! TemperatureRelative humidityBarometric pressureLux intensity
Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU): AccelerometerGyroscopeDigital compass
Li-Po charger: Charges (and is powered by) batteries from a solar panel or the built-in USB
On the board: RGB LEDUser button
Connectivity: WiFi
Weight: 4 g
Arduino environment: Fully compatible: programmed directly from the Arduino IDE, with libraries for reading the sensors and connecting the board to the Thinger.io Cloud or other Internet services

Drawing of the top side of the ClimaStick with callouts for the 3.7 V Li-Po charger, the user button, the RGB LED, the compass and the motion sensor, and the temperature, humidity and pressure sensing — Top side: Li-Po charger, user button, RGB LED and the sensors

Drawing of the bottom side of the ClimaStick, 17 by 37 mm, with callouts for the light sensor, the WiFi module, the reset and user buttons, the battery and VIN connectors, and Arduino compatibility — Top side: Li-Po charger, user button, RGB LED and the sensors

Use cases

From the classroom to drones and industry

Education

An easy to use environment, fully compatible with the Arduino IDE, with multiple sensors for the students' projects. They start coding directly, without wiring multiple sensors and controllers in big protoboards, avoiding possible shorts and burns. With WiFi they go one step further: connected solutions, dashboards, sending emails, recording data, and so on.

Remote telemetry

A full IMU with WiFi connectivity for remote telemetry. The low weight of the device (4 g) and the option of a power supply other than the USB make it an excellent option for monitoring drones or UAVs in real time.

Industry 4.0

Predictive maintenance in industrial environments: measure vibrations, temperature and humidity in real time and determine if the sensed parameters are between normal operation thresholds.

Weather station

A micro weather station, powered easily from a battery and a solar panel, collaborating with weather platforms or just storing your information in the Thinger.io cloud.

Teaching with the board is part of the education programme, and a ClimaStick real-time dashboard appears in the railway vibration monitoring project.

Real-time example

Live dashboards with the ClimaStick

The board streaming its sensors to real-time IoT dashboards on Thinger.io.

Datasheet

Documentation, library and datasheet

The documentation, the Arduino library and the full datasheet, with the general information of the board and the specs of every embedded sensor.

Page of the ClimaStick datasheet: labelled drawings of both sides of the board, a table of general information (dimensions, weight, core, connectivity, power supply, battery, working conditions) and a table of the embedded sensors with their ranges, resolution and accuracy — The general information page of the datasheet. The full PDF is in the resources below.

Hardware designed by Thinger.io

ClimaStick is one of the boards the team has designed. The same work is available for your product.

See our hardware design Read the ClimaStick documentation