Seeed Studio has introduced a brand new entry in its XIAO household, the XIAO W5500 Ethernet Adapter — which, regardless of its identify, is a totally standalone improvement board that mixes wired networking and Energy over Ethernet (PoE) capabilities to the corporate’s XIAO ESP32S3 Plus.
“By way of the suggestions that we obtained from the neighborhood, we discovered that the necessity for a secure community connection for dependable information transmission nonetheless stays a key problem in lots of IoT [Internet of Things] purposes: whereas wi-fi networks are generally used, they typically wrestle with instability and latency points,” explains Seeed’s Liora Chen. “With an built-in, remoted MQ7813T120 based-PoE module and TPS563201-based energy conversion, [the XIAO W5500 Ethernet Adapter] addresses each the ability and community connectivity challenges, making certain secure and uninterrupted information transmission.”
If Wi-Fi and Bluetooth aren’t sufficient on your subsequent XIAO construct, Seeed’s providing another: wired Ethernet. (📷: Seeed Studio)
The “adapter” is designed as a provider board for the prevailing thumb-sized XIAO ESP32S3 Plus improvement board, giving it an Espressif ESP32-S3R8 wi-fi microcontroller with a pair of Tensilica Xtensa LX7 cores operating at as much as 240MHz, 8MB of pseudo-static RAM, and 16MB of flash storage — up from 8MB on the non-Plus variant. The module’s single-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0 Low Vitality (BLE) radios are nonetheless absolutely practical, however stand alongside a brand new connectivity choice: a WIZnet W5500 Quick Ethernet transceiver.
For energy, the brand new board accepts Energy over Ethernet (PoE) with no extra {hardware} required — that means it is potential to each join the gadget to a wired Ethernet community and energy it with a single cable. Lastly, Seeed has designed a 3D-printed enclosure for the event board, offering exterior entry to the reset button, user-addressable and energy LEDs, the Ethernet port, the USB Sort-C port, and a connector for a bundled exterior antenna.
The XIAO W5500 Ethernet Adapter is out there on the Seeed Studio retailer, priced at $19.90 earlier than quantity reductions.
