Particle Asset Tracker – 3G Eur/Afr/Asia

Product ID: 3452
$129.00

Description

Locate your stuff! The Asset Tracker Kit from Particle contains all of the pieces you need to build a Cellular + GPS location tracker for your most prized possessions. In addition to a GPS Shield, the Asset Tracker Kit comes with a weatherproof enclosure, so it’ll keep your electronics safe from the dust, dirt, and moisture of the great outdoors. Keep your bicycle, baby, and backpack safe--satellite lock onto this bargain project kit today!

The Asset Tracker Kit comes with a Particle SIM card with service in more than 100 countries worldwide, and includes 3 months of Particle's 1MB monthly data plan for IoT devices. All Electrons also include Particle's development tools, access to a cloud platform with messaging, and a SIM dashboard for managing and updating your new connected hardware.

The Electron is a 3G device, and will only work in Europe/Asia/Africal (900/1800MHz). However, unlike the 2G global GSM kit, this version uses 3G so it will work for many many years to come!

Particle offers two types of Electron 3G Kits—one for North and South America (850/1900 MHz), and this one for Europe/Asia/Africa (900/1800 MHz). Check the full list of compatible countries for the location in which your product will be deployed.

Contents:

  • 3 months of Particle's 1MB monthly data plan (delivered by email)
  • Particle Electron PCB
  • Weatherproof Enclosure
  • Asset Tracker Shield PCB
  • Particle SIM Card
  • Li-Po battery (2000mAh)
  • USB cable
  • Breadboard
  • Pinout reference card
  • Components for a sample product

Basic Data Charges*:

  • Particle's 1MB monthly data plan: 
    - 3 months included with kit
    - $2.99/month for 1MB (thousands of messages) 
    - No contracts, cancel anytime
  • $0.99/each additional MB

2G Global and 3G Americas/Aus versions also available.

*Data rates vary by country and by data usage, see here for full pricing and bulk discounts.

** Continent compatibility is simplified and exceptions exist. Please be sure to check the full list of compatible countries for the location in which your product will be deployed.

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Technical Details

Please note: As of October 20th 2017, we are now selling the new Asset Tracker v2 shield.

The new Asset Tracker v2 shield has the following new features and improvements:

  • Improved GPS performance
  • Smaller enclosure for space-constrained tracking applications
  • Expandable with Grove, Seeed's huge library of sensors and firmware libraries
  • Satellite support for GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou

Specs:

  • STM32F205 ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller
  • 1MB Flash, 128K RAM
  • Cellular modem: U-Blox SARA U-series (3G)
  • 36 pins total: 28 GPIOs (D0-D13, A0-A13), plus TX/RX, 2 GNDs, VIN, VBAT, WKP, 3V3, RST
  • Board dimensions: 4.06" x 1.42" x 0.3" (0.5" including headers)

Datasheet for the Electron

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