Pre sales question on SARA AFF 410M and SARA SFF 410M or version 412M

General Hardware
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Hi , just found your website because i’m researching for two proof of concept with lte-m connectivity

first project is a smart trap:
i need gps (maybe with detachable antenna) + humidity and temperature dht11 + hx711 load cell + accelerometer and magnetometers + battery and optional solar panel

i need to know if on the 2 grove connector on the sodaq sara aff can be connected dht11 grove sensor and hx711 grove load cell
i need also to know what does mean “each board must be activated” , we will use vodafone italy sim to send data to our private mqtt broker over ssl
i need to know also if the mcu samd21 is the same as in mkr wifi 1010
other prerequisite are: we need to send data via mqtt (we use ArduinoMqttClient.h) and each board must have a unique identifier , in arduino we use the library ArduinoUniqueID.h but other solution are accepted. we need to do sketch ota upgrade , in arduino we use ArduinoOTA.h and ArduinoHttpClient.h library to manage this process by checking on our server if there is a new bin file to download to the internal storage of the samd 21 chip

second project is a device to connect to industrial inkjet machine for active maintenance:
i need temperature sensor like grove ds18b20 + battery + ethernet or rs232 and a relè (ethernet will the ethernet v2 shield from arduino and rs232 will be the shield from seeedstudio)
i need to know if on the 2 grove connector on the sodaq sara aff can be connected the ds18b20 grove sensor
i need also to know what does mean “each board must be activated” , we will use vodafone italy sim
i need to know also if the mcu samd21 is the same as in mkr wifi 1010
other prerequisite are: we need to send data via mqtt (we use ArduinoMqttClient.h) and each board must have a unique identifier , in arduino we use the library ArduinoUniqueID.h but other solution are accepted. we need to do sketch ota upgrade , in arduino we use ArduinoOTA.h and ArduinoHttpClient.h library to manage this process by checking on our server if there is a new bin file to download to the internal storage of the samd 21 chip

awaiting your kindly reply
Regards

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Hi Tradex,

This is quite the loaded question, with the amount you’re asking you’re probably better off shooting a mail to our support instead (or sales even). I’ll try to answer as many questions as I can.

i need to know if on the 2 grove connector on the sodaq sara aff can be connected dht11 grove sensor and hx711 grove load cell

I don’t really foresee any issues here, I see no weird requirements, just some IO.

i need also to know what does mean “each board must be activated” , we will use vodafone italy sim to send data to our private mqtt broker over ssl

If you use your own SIM this doesn’t apply.

i need to know also if the mcu samd21 is the same as in mkr wifi 1010

I checked and it seems the MKR WIFI 1010 also uses a SAMD21, so yes.

other prerequisite are: we need to send data via mqtt (we use ArduinoMqttClient.h) and each board must have a unique identifier , in arduino we use the library ArduinoUniqueID.h but other solution are accepted. we need to do sketch ota upgrade , in arduino we use ArduinoOTA.h and ArduinoHttpClient.h library to manage this process by checking on our server if there is a new bin file to download to the internal storage of the samd 21 chip

This is something for you to figure out. Perhaps provisioning and then storing on the flash would work for persistent storage.

i need to know if on the 2 grove connector on the sodaq sara aff can be connected the ds18b20 grove sensor

Same applies here.

A couple questions are getting a bit too close to “do some research for me”. The forums are more for (seemingly) technical issues and getting some help with the code we provide with our boards.

Regards,
Thom