Wednesday, January 06, 2016

GSM/GPRS/GPS Shield for arduino

GSM/GPRS/GPS Shield is an Arduino shield based on the Quad-band GSM/GPRS/GPS module SIM908.

Features

General

  • Arduino connectivity, connects to Arduino Board directly
  • NOKIA speaker & mic, supports hands-free phone talk
  • Onboard CP2102 for easily debugging through USB interfere
  • Onboard 74HC125, for time-shared controlling GSM and GPS port through single serial port
  • Earphone insert detection & call vibration
  • Quad-band 850/900/1800/1900MHz
  • GPRS multi-slot class 10
  • GPRS mobile station class B 
  • Compliant to GSM phase 2/2+
  • Class 4 (2 W @ 850/900 MHz)
  • Class 1 (1 W @ 1800/1900 MHz)
  • Control via AT commands (GSM 07.07, 07.05 and SIMCom enhanced AT Commands)
  • SIM application toolkit
  • Supply voltage range :
  • GPRS: 3.2 ~ 4.8 V
  • GPS: 3.0 ~ 4.5V
  • Operation temperature : -40 °C to +85 °C


SMS

  • Point-to-point MO and MT
  • SMS cell broadcast
  • Text and PDU mode

Audio

  • Tricodec
  • Half rate (HR)
  • Full rate (FR)
  • Enhanced Full rate (EFR)
  • Hands-free operation
  • Echo cancellation

GPRS

  • GPRS class 8/10: max. 85.6 kbps (downlink)
  • PBCCH support
  • Coding schemes CS 1, 2, 3, 4
  • PPP-stack

CSD

  • CSD up to 14.4 kbps
  • USSD
  • Non transparent mode

GPS

  • Receiver type
  • 42-channel
  • GPS L1 C/A code
  • High-performance STE engine
  • Sensitivity
  • Tracking: -160 dBm
  • Cold starts : -143 dBm
  • Time-To-First-Fix
  • Cold starts : 30s (typ.)
  • Hot starts : 1s (typ.)
  • Accuracy
  • Horizontal position : <2 .5m="" cep="" li="">
  • Power consumption (GSM engine in idle mode)
  • Acquisition : 77mA
  • Tracking : 76mA



Whats On board?


  1. Earphone jack : SIM908 2nd analog voice channel output
  2. GSM antenna connector : SMA interface
  3. Arduino expansion connector : for connecting with an Arduino board
  4. GSM antenna connector
  5. SIM908 control interface
  6. GPS antenna connector
  7. USB TO UART interface
  8. NOKIA original speaker : SIM908 1st analog voice channel output
  9. Arduino reset button
  10. SIM908
  11. SIM908 network indicator : blinking slowly when network registration is successful
  12. Power indicator
  13. Mic : SIM908 1st analog voice channel input
  14. SIM card slot
  15. CP2102
  16. UART Tx/Rx indicator
  17. Power switch
  18. 6V~9V DC power jack
  19. Vibration motor
  20. 74HC125
  21. NCP2890 power amplifier : amplifies the SIM908 1st analog voice channel
  22. MIC29302 power chip
  23. SIM908 analog output positive jumper :
    1. open it when NCP2890 is enabled
    2. short it when NCP2890 is disabled
  24. SIM908 analog output negative jumper :
    1. open it when NCP2890 is enabled
    2. short it when NCP2890 is disabled
  25. NCP2890 enable jumper :
    1. short the EN and VBAT to enable
    2. short the EN and GND to disable