RAK Raspberry Pi 4 Kit for LoRaWAN®

Description

Gateway for LoRaWAN® based on Raspberry Pi 4.

Build your developer gateway for LoRaWAN® with the RAK Raspberry Pi4 base kit - including Pi 4 (4GB), ready-to-use micro SD card with Raspbian OS pre-loaded, case, power supply, RAK2287 concentrator, PiHAT for the concentrator, and LoRa® antenna.

The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is the latest addition to the popular Raspberry Pi series. It offers an excellent increase in processor speed, multimedia performance, memory, and connectivity over the previous generation Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, while maintaining backward compatibility and similar power consumption

RAK2287 is a mini-PCIe form factor LPWAN concentrator module based on Semtech SX1302. It is an exceptional, complete and cost-effective gateway solution offering up to 10 programmable parallel demodulation paths, an 8 x 8-channel LoRa® packet detector, 8 x SF5-SF12 LoRa® demodulators and 8 x SF5-SF10 LoRa® demodulators. It is capable of detecting an uninterrupted combination of packets with 8 different spreading factors and 10 channels of continuous demodulation of up to 16 packets. The module is well suited for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications that require a node density of up to 500 nodes per km² in an environment with moderate interference.

Develop your IoT project or launch your first gateway for LoRaWAN® with the RAK Raspberry Pi4 Basic Kit

To make it even better, we added heat sinks to the top and bottom of the Raspberry Pi4.

You can choose from a variety of options including:

• RAK PoE HAT 

Features

Raspberry Pi4

• Processor: Broadcom BCM2711, quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz
• Memory:  4GB LPDDR4
• Connectivity: 2 .4 GHz and 5.0 GHz IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ac wireless LAN, Bluetooth 5.0, BLE, Gigabit Ethernet, 2 × USB 3.0 ports, 2 × USB 2.0 ports.
• SD card support:  Micro SD card slot for loading operating system and data storage
• Input power:
• 5V DC via USB-C connector (minimum 3A1)
• Power over Ethernet (PoE)–enable (requires separate RAK PoE HAT)
• Environment: Operating temperature 0–50ºC

RAK2287

Designed with size efficiency in mind (mPCIe form factor).

Built around the newly released SX1302 baseband processor.

Tx power up to 27dBm, Rx sensitivity down to -139dBm@SF12, BW 125 kHz.

LoRa® band coverage – full LoRaWAN® band support based on the selected model 

Package Inclusion

• 1 x Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4GB RAM
• 1 x Enclosure(92 x 68.3 x 57.2 mm)
• 1 x Power adapter
• 1 x 64GB SD card with pre loaded Raspbian OS
• 1 x Heatsinks and Thermal Pad - mounted
• 1 x RAK2287+Pi HAT
• 1 x LoRa® antenna

Documentation

Getting started with Raspberry Pi and RAK LPWAN concentrators  

Getting started with Raspberry Pi and RAK LPWAN concentrators