Serbian embedded technology company Mikro Elektronika has added the LTE IoT 8 Click to its 1000-strong Click family of peripheral development boards targeting designers of low-power LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity.

Applications can be found in wearables, asset tracking, industrial monitoring and smart metering.

The compact add-on board uses the Sky 66430-11, a multi-band multi-chip system-in-package (SiP) supporting 5G massive IoT platforms from Skyworks and Sequans Communications. The pre-certified SiP integrates the entire RF front end, transceiver, power management, memory and baseband modem for an LTE multi-band radio operating in the 698 to 2200MHz range.

Click boards are based on the 16-pin MikroBus standard for sockets on a development board invented by Mikro Elektronika ten years ago. Click boards let design engineers change peripherals easily, cutting months off development time. The company releases a Click board nearly every day at 10am, and many microcontroller companies including Microchip, NXP, Infineon, Dialog, STM, Analog Devices, Renesas and Toshiba include the MikroBus socket on their development boards.

LTE IoT 8 Click is supported by a Mikro SDK compliant library, which includes functions that simplify software development. This Click board comes as a fully tested product, ready to be used on any system equipped with the MikroBus socket.

“LTE IoT is very popular, and we have a Click board to suit most configurations,” said Nebojsa Matic, CEO at Mikro Elektronika. “But if you need something different, let us know and we’ll make one. The 8 Click costs just $79 with discounts for multiple purchases. Get to market quickly, headache-free and with minimal development cost.”