Development board is a practical and cost-effective solution for SigFox makers

The Arduino MKRFOX1200 has been designed to offer a practical and cost-effective solution for makers seeking to add SigFox connectivity to their projects with minimal prior experience in networking. The board is available now from RS Components. The board is based on the Microchip SAMD21 and an ATA8520 SigFox module. With its long battery life, the board can run for over six months on two AA 1.5V batteries, with typical usage. The design includes the capability to power the board using two 1.5V AA or AAA batteries or external 5V. Switching from one source to the other is automatically done. It has good 32-bit computational power similar to the Zero board, with the usual rich set of I/O interfaces, low power SigFox communication and the ease of use of the Arduino IDE for code development and programming.