Wio Terminal Chassis - LoRa-E5 and GNSS is a LoRaWAN communication extension board for Seeed Wio-Terminal Dev Board. It is embedded with the  LoRa-E5 STM32WLE5JC Module, which is the world-first combo of LoRa RF and MCU chips into one single tiny chip. It is powered by ARM Cortex-M4 core and Semtech SX126X LoRa chip, supports both LoRaWAN and LoRa protocol on the worldwide frequency and (G)FSK, BPSK, (G)MSK, and LoRa modulations. （Learn more about LoRa-E5）

The GNSS module is the Quectel L76-LB. It supports concurrent reception of GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, and QZSS. With 33 tracking channels, 99 acquisition channels, and 210 PRN channels, it can acquire and track any mix of GPS, GLONASS (or BeiDou), and SBAS signals.

With Wio-Terminal + Wio Terminal Battery Chassis + Wio Terminal Chassis - LoRa-E5 and GNSS, you can easily build a powerful compact, and cost-effective  IoT device with the extended Grove Ports, you can enjoy the plug-and-play features of the Grove Ecosystem with over 300 Grove modules!

Highlighted Features

• Powerful LoRa module: use an extremely compact, and high-performance LoRa-E5 module

• Embedded LoRaWAN® protocol, AT command, support global LoRaWAN® frequency plan

• Worldwide Compatibility: wide frequency range including EU868/US915/AU915/AS923/KR920/IN865

• Long-distance transmission range to 10km (ideal value in open area

• GNSS module(Quectel L76-LB) supports GPS, GLONASS, and BeiDou

• Compatible Arduino

• Ultra-low-power design

Applications

• LoRaWAN GPS Tracker
• LoRaWAN Field Tester
• Smart Agriculture
• Smart Cities
• Smart Factory
• Rapid prototyping of LoRa devices with Wio Terminal
• Any long-distance wireless communication application development
• LoRa and LoRaWAN applications learn and research

Project 1: WioTerminal LoRaWAN Network Analyzer- Open source LoRaWAN Field Tester

The LoRaWAN Gateway Tester is a multipurpose portable tool that can detect the coverage of your LoRaWAN gateways. It will then apprise you of whether the signal is in a normal range. Designed to make the deployment of a LoRaWAN network easier, the LoRaWAN Gateway Tester will help you determine the optimum location for your LoRaWAN gateway deployment. Please check the tutorial and libraries here. 

Prior to developing this, we checked out the LoRa tester market; the price usually ranges from $200 to $500, however, some of them lack a backend application to report the network signal, current time, status, and several other critical information. Therefore, we decided to bring a low-cost version ourselves that is able to do more! This project is based on Paul Pinault’s WioLoRaWANFieldTester report. We are honored to have access to his link and we thank him for his contributions. We combined Paul Pinault’s natty UI for the Wio terminal with LoRa-E5 and GNSS modules to produce the function of the LoRaWAN Gateway Tester.

Project 2: LoRa Node with WioTerminal- IoT Smart Garden Monitor

Project 3: Adding Machine Learning（TinyML） to Your LoRaWAN Device.