Thunderboard Sense 2 provides the fastest path to develop and prototype IoT products such as battery-powered wireless sensor nodes. The development platform combines a broad range of sensors with the powerful multi-protocol EFR32 radio. It has an integrated J-Link debugger, PTI (Packet Trace Interface) support for wireless network debugging, and is fully supported in Simplicity Studio.
Thunderboard Sense 2 is a compact, featured-packed development platform. It provides the fastest path to develop and prototype IoT products such as battery-powered wireless sensor nodes. The development platform combines a broad range of sensors with the powerful multi-protocol EFR32 radio and a mobile app offering Bluetooth communication and cloud connectivity. Thunderboard Sense 2 also has an on-board J-Link debugger and is fully supported in Simplicity Studio.
Thunderboard™ Sense Features
Wireless Gecko EFR32™
- Sub-GHz to 2.4 GHz wireless SoC
- Multi-protocol radio
- ARM® Cortex® M4 core with 256 kB RAM and 1024 kB Flash
- Low Energy Consumption
- Flexible MCU peripheral interfaces
Kit Features
- Segger J-Link Integrated Debugger
- USB CDC virtual serial port
- 8 Mbit SPI ultra low power NOR flash for local storage
Mobile app
- Mobile app for Android and iOS
- iOS app implemented in swift
- Android app implanted in native code
- Source code available at GitHub
Mobile app features
- Beacon notifications
- View sensor data
- Control LEDs and detect button pushes
- Stream sensor data to the cloud
Cloud streaming
- Data is stored in Firebase
- Web frontend is implemented in ReactJS
- Using Alt.js as the flux implementation
- D3.js for data driven charts
- All source code available
Sensors, I/O, and Misc. Control
- Relative Humidity and Temperature Sensor Si7021
- UV and Ambient Light Sensor Si1133
- Pressure Sensor BMP280
- Indoor Air Quality and Gas Sensor CCS811
- 6-axis Inertial Sensor ICM-20648
- Digital Microphone ICS-43434
- High brightness LEDs
- Hall-effect Sensor Si7210
