Various onboard functions built-in for fast and flexible IoT device development

STMicroelectronics (hereinafter ST) announced the new STM32L4 IoT Discovery Kit B-L475E-IOT01A, featuring excellent connectivity capabilities.

This kit not only provides Internet of Things (IoT) node developers with maximum flexibility by supporting multiple low-power wireless standards and Wi-Fi®, but also integrates motion, gesture, and environmental sensors that other kits cannot provide.

ST’s new IoT development kit is designed to rapidly connect IoT devices to cloud services and boasts economical and excellent power efficiency. This kit integrates Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE), sub-GHz[1] RF, and Wi-Fi modules with a dynamic NFC-tag IC featuring a PCB antenna, all mounted on the same board, on a high-performance, ultra-low-power STM32L4 microcontroller.

In addition, based on ST's extensive MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) portfolio and laser distance measuring devices, a wide selection of various sensors is available, enabling support for both user interaction and environmental perception. It is equipped with a 9-axis motion sensor combining a single MEMS accelerometer and gyroscope IC and a MEMS geomagnetic sensor, an atmospheric pressure sensor, a temperature/humidity sensor, two omnidirectional microphones, as well as FlightSense™-based proximity and gesture sensors, all of which can be used immediately without additional integration work.

This Discovery Kit leverages ST’s extension software X-CUBE-AWS to rapidly connect with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT platform and access cloud-based tools and services such as device monitoring and control, data analysis, and machine learning. Support for other cloud providers will be added in the future, along with a software feature pack that provides all the components necessary for prototyping end-to-end IoT solutions, including pre-integrated, complete application examples.

The STM32L4 Discovery Kit IoT node is equipped with an onboard ST-Link debugger/programmer, eliminating the need for an external probe, and allows the use of ARM® Keil® MDK-ARM, IAR™ EWARM, or GCC/LLVM-based IDEs (Integrated Development Environments), as well as free AC6 SW4STM32 or mbed™ online tools.