Particle Boron IoT Development Board

Boron LTE is a powerful LTE CAT-M1/NB1-enabled development board designed to function as a standalone cellular endpoint. It is built around the Nordic nRF52840 chip and includes a built-in battery charging circuit. This means you can quickly deploy your local network by connecting a Li-Po battery.

Boron is excellent for projects in areas where there is no Wi-Fi or where it is unreliable. It's perfect for connecting projects to the Particle device cloud or acting as a gateway for your entire local endpoint group, with more features like Bluetooth similar to the Electron model.

All Particle hardware is designed to work seamlessly with the Device Cloud from the ground up. It's a robust tool and infrastructure set for building, connecting, and managing your IoT fleet. All Particle customers receive three months of free Device Cloud access for micro-networks using a cellular gateway. A micro-network is defined as a network with a total of 10 devices and a single gateway.

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Features

• u-blox SARA R410 LTE modem with global hardware support
• LTE CAT M1/NB1 module with 3GPP Release 13 LTE Cat M1 (MVNO support for the U.S. only)
• Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 SoC with ARM Cortex-M4F 32-bit processor @ 64MHz
• 1MB flash, 256KB RAM
• IEEE 802.15.4-2006: 250 Kbps
• Bluetooth 5 with various data rates
• Built-in DSP instructions and hardware-accelerated Floating-Point Unit (FPU) calculations
• ARM TrustZone CryptoCell-310 encryption and security module
• TX power up to +8 dBm (steps of 4 dBm down to -20 dBm)
• Additional onboard 4MB SPI flash
• 20 mixed-signal GPIO (6 x Analog, 8 x PWM), UART, I2C, SPI
• Micro USB 2.0 full speed (12 Mbps)
• Integrated Li-Po charging and battery connector
• JTAG (SWD) connector
• RGB status LED
• Reset and Mode buttons
• Dual SIM support: Nano 4FF (unpopulated) and MFF2
• U.FL connector for an external antenna
• FCC and PTCRB certified
• RoHS compliant
  

Documents

• Schematic
• Datasheet
• Certificate
• Github