ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit 2

Product Name:

Evaluation and Development Kit

Product Number:

TWE-EK-002-R (Accompanied by TWE-001)
TWE-EK-002-S (Accompanied by TWE-001 STRONG)

ZigBee / IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit is intended to facilitate the evaluation and development process of ZigBee / IEEE802.15.4 Wireless Module TOCOS Wireless Engine. We have packaged everything you need so that you can start the process smoothly without spending too much time on preparing for evaluation.

As ZigBee / IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit contains measurement software (communications quality measurement tool) that is useful in evaluating communications performance, you can start measuring and evaluating the signal range on the spot.

You can also prototype on the ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit and start developing software. It is suitable to create a demonstration system in a short period based on the ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit.

Software Development Kit (SDK) is made available for free. There is no limitation in available functions or duration of use, so you can save on initial costs to start an evaluation and development process. Even if the number of developers is increased, no additional costs are required.

With the ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit, ZigBee PRO stack and JenNet stack become available for free of lisence. You can also establish your own communications stack on IEEE802.15.4 instead of those communications stacks.

The use of the ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit also allows you to write the software developed on a PC in a module, so you do not have to make a new dedicated jig for writing. The ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit is also equipped with USB cables to connect with a PC and software for downloading.

On the wireless sensor node that comes with ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit, temperature, humidity, and illuminance sensors, general-purpose push switches, and LED are mounted, which can be controlled with ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Wireless Module TOCOS Wireless Engine. You can also add optional sensors and actuators to the extended connector.

A variety of Sample Programs are available, so you can proceed with your development work based on the program with functions close to the ones you want.

The ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit accompanies the technical support service good for a year from the date of purchase.

* For support on development using a ZigBee PRO stack, you will get direct support from the developer of the ZigBee PRO stack. Please discuss it with the stack developer before purchase. (For IEEE802.15.4 API/JenNet, Tokyo Cosmos Electric will offer support based on its development know-how.)

Our development engineers will answer your questions about how to use ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit or the inquiries that may arise during evaluation or development through the technical support service. Take advantage of the service to facilitate your evaluation and development process.

For any technical inquiries before purchasing ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit, please use the Technical Support Form.

For more details on ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit, please see the following.

Contents of ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit

Wireless Sensor Node (with LCD)

Product Name:

Wireless Sensor Node (with LCD)

Product Number:

TWE-EK-002-LCD-RIP (with TWE-001 mounted)
TWE-EK-002-LCD-SIP (with TWE-001 STRONG mounted)

ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit comes with 1 Wireless Sensor Node (with LCD). (The item is also available for sale separately.)

The Wireless Sensor Node (with LCD) consists of TWE-BASE 001 (base) board at the power supply, TWE-CARRIER 001 (carrier) where a wireless module is mounted, and an extended board TWE-LCD-ARMOUR 001 (LCD armour) equipped with an LCD and sensor parts.

The Wireless Sensor Node (with LCD) that comes with ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit has a bitmapped LCD, which makes it ideal at the coordinator side (access point) and for debugging.

Using the USB-UART cable that comes with Evaluation and Development Kit, you can connect it with a PC and download software in ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Module TOCOS Wireless Engine. By changing the software, it can be used as a coordinator, router, or end device. The Evaluation and Development Kit accompanies the software for downloading

All the devices on the board of Wireless Sensor Node (with LCD) are controlled by ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Module TOCOS Wireless Engine. Temperature, humidity, and illuminance sensors are mounted on the board and the values can be read by TOCOS Wireless Engine. With 4 general-purpose push switches and 4 LEDs installed, you can assign any function to them. In addition, you can connect optional sensors and external devices to an extended connector. Some texts and graphics can be displayed on the 128 x 64 dot bitmapped LCD.

The power can be supplied either by 4AA batteries, through USB, or using an AC adapter. (An AC adapter does not come with Evaluation and Development Kit.)

For more details on hardware, please see Details of ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit.

Wireless Sensor Node (without LCD)

Product Name:

Wireless Sensor Node (without LCD)

Product Number:

TWE-EK-002-NLC-RIP (with TWE-001 external antennas mounted)
TWE-EK-002-NLC-RPA (with TWE-001 built-in antennas mounted)
TWE-EK-002-NLC-SIP (with TWE-001 STRONG external antennas mounted)
TWE-EK-002-NLC-SIP (with TWE-001 STRONG built-in antennas mounted)

ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit comes with 2 Wireless Sensor Node (without LCD). (The item is also available for sale separately.)

The Wireless Sensor Node (without LCD) consists of TWE-BASE 001 (base) board at the power supply, TWE-CARRIER 001 (carrier) where a wireless module is mounted, and an extended board TWE-SENSOR-ARMOUR 001 (sensor armour) equipped with sensor parts.

The Wireless Sensor Node (without LCD) that comes with ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit is ideal as a wireless sensor device for sensor networks.

The Wireless Sensor Node (without LCD) is the same as the Wireless Sensor Node (large) except it does not have LCD and the number of general-purpose push switches and LEDs is 2 for each.

The power can be supplied either by 2AA batteries, through USB, or using an AC adapter. (An AC adapter does not come with Evaluation and Development Kit.)

For more details on hardware, please see Details of ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit.

Wireless Sensor Tag

Product Name:

Wireless Sensor Tag

Product Number:

TWE-EK-002-TAG-RPA (with TWE-001 mounted)
TWE-EK-002-TAG-SPA (with TWE-001 STRONG mounted)

ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit comes with 2 wireless sensor tags. (The item is also available for sale separately.)

The evaluation board is a small wireless tag type and can be used with TWE-001/TWE-001 STRONG. It will operate on a coin battery. It is best suited for an active type RFID and evaluation as a wireless sensor.

It is equipped with a temperature and humidity sensor, 1 push button switch, and 2 LEDs, and has a battery holder for CR2032/2025 inside.

* A coin battery can supply only small current, so it is essential to consider how to use the product according to the requirement of power saving. Operating a wireless module requires large current (10 - 20 mA) constantly or momentarily compared with the current supplied by a coin battery, so you need to establish the application to work intermittently.

* The capacity of a coin battery is small, so it is not suited for evaluation as a coordinator or a router, which requires continuous operation.

USB-UART Converting Cable

Product Name:

USB-UART Converting Cable

Product Number:

TWE-EK-002-CBL

ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit comes with 2 USB-UART Converting Cables. (The item is also available for sale separately.)

It is used to connect a wireless sensor node with a PC. USB-UART converting circuits are built in the cable.

Using the cable, you can download the software developed on a PC in the flash memory on a wireless module. The dedicated software attached to the development kit is to be used here.

You can also use the cable when importing the data from a wireless sensor node to a PC and controlling wireless sensor node through a PC.

For pinout, please see Details of ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit.

Software Development Kit (SDK)

ZigBee / IEEE802.15.4 Wireless Module TOCOS Wireless Engine is a microcomputer module having wireless functions, so you can freely control the input and output of sensors by developing software.

The Software Development Kit (SDK) that comes with ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit contains a gcc tool chain, which supports the custom MCU core of an OpenRISC base, ZigBee PRO Stack, and JenNet Stack.

In addition to the development methods using a command line tool and makefile, Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is available.

A program is to be created using the prepared API with C language. A variety of Sample Programs are also available.

There is no limitation in duration of use or available functions for the Software Development Kit (SDK), so no additional costs are required.

JTAG Debugger (JTAG ICE) TWE-JD-001 that supports ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit is also available for sale separately. This helps you debug very efficiently. With TWE-JD-001, you can check the parameters wherever you want by setting a break point while watching the source code and stopping execution at given point, and execute the operation line by line, which promises you a stress-free use. For more details, please see JTAG Debugger (JTAG ICE).

As for a development environment, it operates on a 32 bit Windows Vista, XP, and 2000 * 1.

* 1: Not that installing it in Windows 7 or 64 bit Windows OS is prohibited, but it is out of our support service. Other OS platforms such as Linux are not supported.

For the flow of software development, please see Programing Information.

For the method of using Software Development Kit (SDK), please see ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit (Introduction).

Ready-made Software

If you use ready-made software, you can use a wireless engine without having to develop software.

For more details, please see TWE-ZERO.

Network Discovery Tool (Accompanying Software)

ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit accompanies the software for Network Discovery Tool. Network Discovery Tool can be used as a tool to monitor the radio waves environment (Site Survey: simplified spectrum analyzer for each channel in the 2.4 GHz band) and the communications conditions of IEEE802.15.4, JenNet, and ZigBee PRO networks.

Network Discovery Tool operates on the Wireless Sensor Node (with LCD) that comes with the kit.

It is a very useful tool to grasp the usage status of the 2.4 GHz band.

It can be used to easily check the radio waves environment before conducting wireless measurement. You can figure out which channels have a high level of noise.

Please see ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Measurement Tool.

Communications Quality Measurement Tool (Accompanying Software)

ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit accompanies the software for Communications Quality Measurement Tool. The tool can measure the packet error rate (PER) and quantify the communications quality between modules.

A Wireless Sensor Node (with LCD) and a Wireless Sensor Node (without LCD) that come with the kit are to be used.

A loopback test is conducted for the data packets between the two nodes to indicate the error rate and measure the communications performance.

You can measure the line-of-sight signal range and evaluate the communications in the installation place with obstacles.

It does not require a PC for measurement, which makes it very easy to carry the tool when you want to conduct measurement.

This tool can evaluate the communications performance of ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Module TOCOS Wireless Engine thoroughly.

For the operating method, please see ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Measurement Tool.

Packet Sniffer (Packet Analyzer)

ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit accompanies the software for Packet Sniffer (Packet Analyzer).

It can visualize the communications packets and is useful for debugging and problem solving.

The Wireless Sensor Node that comes with the kit is to be used for Packet Sniffer.

For more details, please see Packet Sniffer (Packet Analyzer).

Example of Network Connection

ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit can take various network topologies by combining the accompanying wireless sensor nodes. By changing the software of the built-in microcomputer, the role to play will be changed.

For the flow of software development, please see Programing Information.

For the method of developing software, please see ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit (Introduction).

Related Information

For the flow of software development of ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit, please see Programing Information.

For the method of using Software Development Kit (SDK), please see ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit (Introduction).

For more technical details such as hardware information of ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit and pinout of the board, please see Details of ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit.
- Programing Information
- ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit (Introduction)
- Details of ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 Evaluation and Development Kit

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