Paxcounter (Esp32 Board)

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Paxcounter (ESP32 Board)

Paxcounter is a ESP32 based device to meter pax flows in realtime

Resources

• Product Page
• Datasheet

Specifications

Hardware:

• Heltec: LoRa-32 v1 and v2
• TTGO: Paxcounter-Board*,
  • T1*
  • T2*
  • T3*
  • T-Beam
  • T-Fox
• Pycom
  • LoPy
  • LoPy4
  • FiPy
• Radioshuttle.de: ECO Power Board
• WeMos: LoLin32 + LoraNode32 shield, LoLin32lite + LoraNode32-Lite shield
• Adafruit ESP32 Feather + LoRa Wing + OLED Wing, #IoT Octopus32 (Octopus + ESP32 Feather)
• M5Stack: Basic Core IoT* + Lora Module RA-01H, Fire IoT*

* supports microSD-card

Features:

Depending on board hardware following features are supported:

• LoRaWAN communication, supporting various payload formats (see enclosed .js converters)
• MQTT communication via TCP/IP and Ethernet interface (note: payload transmitted over MQTT will be base64 encoded)
• SPI serial communication to a local host
• LED (shows power & status)
• OLED Display (shows detailed status)
• RGB LED (shows colorized status)
• Button (short press: flip display page / long press: send alarm message)
• Battery voltage monitoring (analog read / AXP192 / IP5306)
• GPS (Generic serial NMEA, or Quectel L76 I2C)
• Environmental sensors (Bosch BMP180/BME280/BME680 I2C; SDS011 serial)
• Real Time Clock (Maxim DS3231 I2C)
• IF482 (serial) and DCF77 (gpio) time telegram generator
• Switch external power/battery
• LED Matrix display (similar to this 64x16 model, can be ordered on Aliexpress
• SD-card for logging pax data