Product description

Our extremely popular easy to use RF serial data module with great range and XBee series 1 shaped pin layout.

Provides an out-of-the-box wireless RF serial connection without any need for programming or end-user configuration.

Operates in the ISM bands (868, 915 MHz) and that means it has a greater range than WiFi (2.4 GHz) units that sport the same footprint. That means it goes through more walls and reaches further. We have had reports of customers sending data over more than 3 KM using the standard supplied whip antennas.

Comes pre-loaded with Ciseco firmware which enables the XRF to interwork with all other Ciseco RF modules, without any programming or configuration. You provide data one end and it appears on the other. All data packetisation, data checking, etc. is all done for you.

Makes use of Texas Instruments’ CC1110, a low-power System-on-Chip, which sports a micro-controller unit (MCU), memory, a sub-1GHz transceiver, and an encryption engine.

Ciseco provide a series personalities that can be used to specialise an XRF so it can become a dedicated sensor or actuator that communicates using Ciseco’s LLAP, a protocol that is as easy to understand as a text message.

We have a range of sensors, actuators, support boards, Arduino shields, and Raspberry Pi add-on boards that when fitted with an XRF become wireless nodes in a Ciseco powered internet of things.

Features:

• Just 4 connections needed for transparent serial data mode (PWR, GND, RX, TX)
• Supports network identifier PANID for communications into separate networks if desired
• Facilitates remote Arduino/Xino over-the-air programming
• Can be programmed in its own right
• Supports serial bootloading for firmware updates without a hardware programmer and using just RX/TX
• Has 5v tolerant serial in so can be used with a 5v micro without level conversion
• Acts as a drop in replacement for series 1 XBees
• RoHS
• CE
• WEEE
• Made in the UK

Technical data

 Dimensions: 29mm x 25mm x 9mm

• 2 x 10 pin 2mm pitch layout ()
• Over the air data rate of 250Kbps with a max of 500Kbps
• Baud rate selectable up to 115200 baud
• 868 and 915 MHz ISM/SRD bands (can support 315, 433, 900 MHz)
• Up to 10dBm (10 mW) power
• Low current consumption (RX: 24mA; TX: 36mA @ -10dBm output power)
• 123 μA in sleep mode; 0.2 μA in deep sleep mode

 Detailed electrical and environmental specifications are the same as those for the SRF and can be found here: http://openmicros.org/index.php/articles/88-ciseco-product-documentation/259-srf-technical-data

Downloads

See http://openmicros.org/index.php/articles/247-xrf-document-index

Documentation

XRF documents (http://openmicros.org/index.php/articles/247-xrf-document-index) includes technical data, tutorials, downloads and projects.

Projects

See http://openmicros.org/index.php/articles/247-xrf-document-index

Related or associated products

The XRF is usually combined with sensors, actuators, or a variety of development boards and shields to build wireless sensing and control networks that form the edges of the Internet of Things.

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