lab5e - Birds of a Feather
Part 2 demonstrates how to use the Nordic Semiconductor modem library for sending messages to Span and, also how to use the Feather together with a CozIR-LP3 CO2 sensor (real data is always way more interesting than synthetic demo data).
For anything even moderately distributed that also has to run on batteries, this translates to incorporating hardware that enables you to send and receive messages using low-power radio access technologies like LTE-M (Cat M1) or NB-IoT (Cat M2).
Jared Wolff has designed a really nice and small IoT development board, namely the nRF9160 Feather. It measures 21x53mm in size without the antennas and should be easy to incorporate in any IoT prototype.
Our main product is the Span service that lets you manage your IoT devices, provides storage and also offers outputs via HTTP webhook, MQTT, IFTTT, or UDP. You can also stream data via web sockets.
Our APN is mda.lab5e. This is currently available via Telenor subscriptions, but can be used globally since LTE-M roaming is supported.
