Cypress Solar Powered BLE - Out of Box experience

13 Mar 2016

I happen to have one of these kits @Cumps Castle, and gave it a first shot.

The out of box exercise is a good starter. As usual with Cypress, things just work and the explanations are excellent.

Great learning value to be had by the Solar-Powered IoT Device Kit roadtesters.

Here's a video I captured of my first try-out
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I hope to see some great reviews !

(thank you jgmarcelino)

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warrenzee over 8 years ago +3

Cypress offers training workshops and I went to one last week for the Solar-Powered IoT Device Kit so let me add a couple of notes before the info leaks out of my brain. The course covered energy sources…
Jan Cumps over 8 years ago in reply to clem57 +2

It contains a solar cell, and a capacitor to store harvested energy. It's purpose is to evaluate solutions that don't use a battery. Product Link Product Link
Former Member over 8 years ago in reply to clem57 +1

clem57 : Thanks.

Former Member over 8 years ago in reply to warrenzee

Thanks a lot. This answer answered all my queries.
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warrenzee over 8 years ago

Cypress offers training workshops and I went to one last week for the Solar-Powered IoT Device Kit so let me add a couple of notes before the info leaks out of my brain. The course covered energy sources and energy budgets. Basically, you determine your end product (the kit includes a temp/humidity chip, so in the workshop we set up the BLE transmitter as a weather station) and how often you need the remote to awaken/sample/ transmit. From this you determine your energy needs. Next you evaluate your energy sources (the kit has a solar cell so we determined power output for the lighting in our training room, but other sources such as thermal and vibration were discussed). Obviously the solar cell provided gave adequate energy for the Cypress BLE module so the kit works in normal room light. There is on-board capacitance, and you can always add an external cap or battery as necessary. I've worked with Cypress products for many years and I've found that their kits are very thorough but I for one would struggle without the assistance provided by Cypress and their distributors (my seminar was hosted by Arrow but I have also worked with Future, I'm sure other reps are equally helpful).
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Jan Cumps over 8 years ago in reply to Former Member

There's a capacitor in the kit that can be used to store the abundance of energy, and you can consume that at night.
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Former Member over 8 years ago in reply to clem57

clem57: Thanks.
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clem57 over 8 years ago in reply to Former Member

YMMV. So long as the energy lost is replaced you can go for days.
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