Pycom's five-network IoT development board incorporates Sequans LTE-M technology

Jamie Leland, Content Assistant, Nov. 23, 2016 – 

Sequans Communications S.A. and Pyco have announced that the newest Pycom IoT platform FiPy will include LTE networking capability powered by Sequans' Monarch LTE Cat M1/NB1 chip. FiPy is a hardware module that unifies LTE with other proprietary or unlicensed low-power, wide area (LPWA) technologies into a single, five-network Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity solution. In addition to LTE Cat M, the FiPy includes LoRa, Sigfox, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth connectivity options.

Based on the ESP32 system on chip (SoC) from Espressif Systems, FiPy comes in a 55 mm x 20 mm x 3.5 mm form factor and is programmable using the MicroPython language. The board's open source firmware comes with supporting development tools such as the Pymakr IDE, the Pymate mobile app, Pysense, and Pytrack application boards, as well as a free middleware platform that will be available in April 2017.

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