Arduino compatible module "Spark Electron" to realize mobile communication for IoT at less than 400 yen per month

Everything is connected to the Internet "The Internet's Internet (IoT)Although it is seen that daily life will change dramatically, one of the big necks of IoT popularization is the problem of how to secure a cheap mobile communication line? Modules that realize cheap mobile communication in such IoT era "Spark Electron"is.

Spark Electron: Cellular dev kit with a simple data plan by Spark IO - Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sparkdevices/spark-electron-cellular-dev-kit-with-a-simple-data

You can understand what hardware Spark Electron is like by watching the following movie.

The Spark Electron: Cellular for Everything - YouTube


This isArduinoSupported module "Spark Electron"


Spark Electron can access the Internet anywhere.


Spark Electron itself is a terminal for IoT capable of mobile communication like mobile phones and smart phones.


For example, if you incorporate Spark Electron into your wallet, you can quickly find out where you left behind. Spark Electron's role is to provide such a communication environment for IoT.


Zak Spara of the Spark Electron developer. I have led the Spark team that has developed numerous IoT devices.


Spark is a Wi - Fi module for Arduino compatible IoT terminal programmable on the Web in 2013Spark CoreOn the cloud funding siteKickstarterSuccessful commercialization by recruiting investment. The newly developed IoT module Spark Electron enables mobile communication this time.


Spark Electron's big theme is mobile communication.


If you incorporate the Spark Electron module, coin parking settlement machine ......


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Products sold at flea market, etc., various things and things are connected to each other,M2MThe world is realized.


Spark Electron not only connects terminals via Wi-Fi but also mobile communication with built-in modem.


You can insert a SIM card into Spark Electron.


SparkMVNOBy providing a mobile communication environment necessary for IoT, Spark Electron's low-cost mobile communication becomes possible.


Spark isTier 1 networkBy 2017, we plan to offer a 2G / 3G communication environment in a wide European region including 28 countries of the United States, Canada and the EU by borrowing a line from.


The low attraction of Spark Electron is the great attraction of Spark Electron. With Spark Electron, it costs 2.99 dollars a month (about 360 yen) per 1 MB of data, and the terminal addition is OK at a cost of 0.99 dollars (about 120 yen) for each one. Since IoT does not assume a large amount of data communication, even if data is transmitted and received every two minutes in one 50-byte communication, since it is 20,000 times per month, it can be covered with a monthly charge of 2.99 dollars.


How you use Spark Electron depends on your ideas. Attached to the bicycle saddle and logged ......


It is free to use by combining with Arduino as a tool to check the soil environment in real time.


Spark Electron has already succeeded in collecting more than 400,000 dollars (about 48 million yen) against Kickstarter for a target investment of 30,000 dollars (about 3.6 million yen).

In the Spark Electron project, you can get one Spark Electron module that supports 2G communication with a capital of 39 dollars (about 4700 yen) ......


You can get 1 Spark Electron module for 3G communication with a capital of 59 dollars (about 7000 yen).


The deadline for the Spark Electron project is up to 7:00 am on April 2, 2015 in Japan time.

Spark Electron: Cellular dev kit with a simple data plan by Spark IO - Kickstarter