Workshop Sigfox during may 2016 XKE Session Using an Atmel evaluation board

1. Sigfox - hands on
XEBIA XKE // 2016.05.02

3. Sigfox basics

4. About Sigfox
Sigfox is not selling chips
Sigfox is not building connected solutions
Sigfox has invented a radio protocol
Sigfox operates a global network

5. WHY ANOTHER SOLUTION ?

6. WHY ANOTHER SOLUTION ?

7. GLOBAL REACH COST EFFECTIVENESS SIMPLICITY ENERGY EFFICIENCY

8. How
Small messages : up to 12 bytes of useful payload
Main focus : energy efficiency
Years of autonomy for battery-powered things

9. Underlying tech
Unlicensed bands in the Sub GHz spectrum
Ultra Narrow Band
High capacity per base station
Able to coexist with other technologies

10. Hardware
Open ecosystem : rely on established Silicon vendors
TI, Atmel, SiLabs, …
No fees per chip, stack is provided for free to enables

12. Use cases
EXAMPLES OF SOLUTIONS ALREADY IN PRODUCTION

13. What does IoT means ?
Sexy stuff : connected gadgets
Boring
& useful
IoT

14. Perfect Sigfox use cases
Independent solutions
no user, no power socket, no local network
Shy devices
Doesn’t speak much, but only useful data

15. Cloud

16. Get your data
View messages : Sigfox web platform
Get messages : REST API (pull)
Receive new messages : HTTP Callbacks (push)

17. Callbacks
Each message received from your devices will be forwarded
to your application server
Customisable headers & body
You can set more than one callback

18. Workshop
YOUR TURN TO WORK

19. Please
Don’t forget to publish your experiments
Code Samples, HW design, fails … will be useful to other
people
We all start by copy/pasting ;)
Your own website, github, hackster.io, instructables … your call!

20. Useful Links
Workshop slides
http://bit.ly/XKESigfox
Q&A
http://ask.sigfox.com
Github
https://github.com/nicolsc/
AtmelSigfoxShieldEx
http://github.com/sigfox/makers-tour-
resources
http://github.com/nicolsc
Add your own !

21. Register
http://backend.sigfox.com/activate
Provider: Atmel
Country : France
Device ID & PAC: sticker on the board

22. HELLO WORLD

23. Sample code
Check out https://github.com/nicolsc/AtmelSigfoxShieldEx
Will send T° & power supply info over Sigfox

24. Hello World Sketch
Open the Arduino IDE
Select the board
Board type : Arduino Uno
Upload

25. Message received ?
http://backend.sigfox.com
Navigate to the devices menu in the top bar
Click on the ID of your device
Enter the messages menu from the left navigation column

26. First callback

27. Callback setup
Device Type menu
Click on your device type name
Enter the Callbacks menu
Select new default callback

28. Callback setup
TYPE : DATA UPLINK
Choose a CHANNEL : URL (EMAIL for a quick test)
Url pattern: URL of your own server
Use HTTP method: GET/POST/PUT

29. Callback status
In the Devices > Messages panel, you have a indicator of the callback
status (an arrow)
Black : in progress
Green : Callback OK
Red : Callback KO
Click the arrow to display details.
KO means at least one of the callbacks failed