BDE-USB216 is an ultra-low power, long-range Sub-1 GHz USB dongle targeted at low power sensors and long range applications.

BDE-USB216 integrates a high performance RF core and also a powerful ARM cortex-M4F processor, which makes it suitable for certain products that need high performance MCU to deal with difficult applications. It features a USB to UART Bridge, which makes it easy to use in PC terminal.

The USB dongle supports 868 MHz and 915 MHz bands, with the maximum output power up to 14 dBm, along with its Long-Range Mode feature, the USB dongle is to be the best choice for IoT products which require long range communication.

Key Features 

- Ultra low power Sub-1 GHz

- Supports 868 MHz, 915 MHz

- Powerful Cortex-M4F MCU for your IoT products

- Clock Speed: up to 48MHz

- Up to 352KB of In-System-Programmable Flash

- 80KB of Ultra-Low-Leakage SRAM

- RF performance

- TX power: Up to +14 dBm

- RX sensitivity: up to -121 dBm using Long-Range Mode, -110 dBm at 50 kbps (Sub-1 GHz)

- Communication range

- 700 meters (LOS) - Integrated FPC antenna

- 1000 meters (LOS) - External antenna

- USB to UART bridge

- Full speed USB device, USB 2.0 compliant

- Full duplex UART

- Support 50bps~2Mbps baud rate

- Antenna: 

- Integrated FPC antenna 

- External antenna

- Size

- 80 mm x 25 mm x 15 mm (External antenna)

- 60 mm x 24 mm x 9 mm (Integrated FPC antenna)

- 82 mm x 32.2 mm x 12.5 mm (Integrated spring antenna)

- FCC, CE, RoHS compliant

Applications

- Long-range sensor applications

- Smart grid and automatic meter reading

- Wireless healthcare applications

- Industry monitoring and control

- Home and building automation

- Energy-harvesting applications

Download

BDE-USB216_Datasheet_EN_V1.1.pdf