Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Wireless board

IoT Developer Prototyping Kit for Google Cloud Platform

If you have been waiting for a board that could be integrated with The Google Cloud Platform, then here is one, BeagleBone Green Wireless Board. The BeagleBone Green Wireless IoT Developer prototyping kit enables developers to get data from the environment directly onto GCP . Once in GCP, developers can utilize its features such us Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Bigtable, Google BigQuery among others.

Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Wireless board is a joint effort by Google, Seeed Studio and BeagleBoard.org. It has has been derived from Beaglebone Green which was also derived from Beaglebone Black. With this system developers are able to build applications without soldering and jump wires.

Beaglebone has produced more than 30 Groves that work well with the BeagleBone Green Wireless board, and the number is increasing. The Grove sensors are integrated into the standard grove connector allowing developers to connect the board to them with a simple cable. The 5V barrel of the Beaglebone Black has also been updated to micro USB host. This enables developers to power the board more conveniently.

Here are some of the functionalities that make the new prototyping kit ideal for IoT designs.

Built in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios

Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Wireless has included Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz, a high-performance wireless module on board which add 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.1 with BLE

802.11 High Rate or Wi-Fi, it is an extension to 802.11 specification developed by the IEEE for wireless LAN (WLAN) technology that applies to wireless LANS and provides 11 Mbps transmission (with a fallback to 5.5, 2 and 1 Mbps) in the 2.4 GHz band. 802.11b uses only DSSS.

This is the First Wi-Fi BLE Board from BeagleBoard Community.

A fully open hardware design

Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Wireless is based on the open-source hardware design of BeagleBone Black.

Built in Grove connectors

Seeed Studios has removed the on-board HDMI connectors previously on Beaglebone Black to make room for the following two Grove connectors.

I2C - The Inter-integrated Circuit (I2C) Protocol is a protocol intended to allow multiple “slave” digital integrated circuits (“chips”) to communicate with one or more “master” chips. It only requires two signal wires to exchange information. It is only intended for short distance communications within a single device.

UART — A universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter, is a computer hardware device that translates data between parallel and serial forms. It provides the computer with the RS-232C Data Terminal Equipment ( DTE ) interface so that it can “talk” to and exchange data with modems and other serial devices.

The two Grove connectors, making it easier to connect to the large family of Grove sensors.

Built in programmable real-time units (PRU)

BeagleBone’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) combines ARMv7 CPU with two smaller 32-bit microcontroller Programmable Realtime Units (PRUs) that have access to all 512MB of system RAM. This lets the developer dedicate the PRUs to the time-sensitive and repetitive task of reading each sample out of an external ADC, while the main CPU lets us use the data with the GNU/Linux tools we’re used to.

Built in on board flash memory

This board has built-in onboard flash storage that lets you treat SD cards as optional, removable storage

Built in analog-to-digital conversion

It also has Built-in analog-to-digital conversion.

Headers

2x 46 pin header

Supports AP STA Mode for Wireless LAN Networking & A2DP & MRAA Library