Purpose

The Base Station is a device that will receive and transmit payloads between the Detection Units and a Backend Server on Amazon. This device contains two submodules: the Microcontroller component and the Microcomptuter Component (as listed below). There is also certain software that allows the Microcontroller and Microcomputer to work together to multiplex payloads between the Detection Units and Backend Server.

Revisions

• EVT Build (Evaluation Validation Testing)
• DVT Build (Design Validation Testing)

Hardware

• Microcontroller: Adafruit Feather M0
• Microcomputer: Raspberry Pi B+
• Antenna: PyCom 900MHz Antennas
• Wireless: LoRa using 915 MHz ISM Band for ITU “Americas”

Software

• Microcomputer OS: Raspbian Stretch Lite OS
• Microcomputer Software: nodeJS, SocketIO v2
• Micrcontroller Environment: Arduino
• Firmware: Open Sourced on GitHub