Arduino has formally launched its Single-Pair Ethernet add-on for the Arduino UNO R4 household of improvement boards, including expanded assist for industrial communications: the Arduino UNO SPE Defend.
“Deliver cutting-edge industrial connectivity to your Arduino UNO R4 tasks,” the corporate guarantees of the brand new board, designed particularly for the latest-generation variants of the favored UNO improvement board vary — and incompatible with the UNO R3 and earlier. “The Arduino UNO SPE Defend combines Single Pair Ethernet (T1S) and RS485 communication in a single versatile module – good for good automation, retrofitting, and IoT innovation.”
Arduino is angling to place the UNO R4 household on the coronary heart of commercial IoT with the brand new UNO SPE Defend add-on. (📷: Arduino)
Introduced again in November final 12 months, the Arduino UNO SPE Defend’s main focus is on Single-Pair Ethernet (10BASE-T1S, IEEE 802.3bw) connectivity. Centered totally on long-range industrial communications and utilizing solely a single twisted wire pair, the SPE connectivity is offered by the mixing of a Microchip LAN8651B1T-E/LMX SPE MAC-PHY — with the 2 corporations working in tandem to make sure the add-on board is plug-and-play suitable with the Arduino UNO R4 Minima and UNO R4 WiFi improvement boards.
The board additionally contains what Arduino describes as “legacy” RS485 connectivity, with the corporate positioning the board — connected to an acceptable Arduino UNO R4, naturally — as a perfect means so as to add SPE connectivity and Industrial Web of Issues (IIoT) capabilities to current RS485 infrastructure. “Whether or not you’re retrofitting industrial machines, constructing good vitality monitoring techniques, or prototyping superior IoT units,” the corporate guarantees, “the SPE Defend simplifies communication between fashionable or legacy tools.”
The Arduino SPE Defend is now accessible on the Arduino retailer, priced at $39; an Arduino UNO R4 Minima or Arduino UNO R4 WiFi to go together with it would value $20 or $22 further respectively, the latter presently on sale with a 20 p.c low cost.
