Arduino Portenta Vision Shield with LoRa

The Portenta Vision Shield LoRa brings industry-rated features to your Arduino Portenta. This hardware add-on will let you run embedded computer vision applications, connect wirelessly via LoRa to the Arduino Cloud or your own infrastructure, and activate your system upon the detection of sound events.

The Vision Shield LoRa has been designed to work with the Arduino Portenta H7. The Portenta boards feature multicore 32-bit ARM  Cortex processors running at hundreds of megahertz, with megabytes of program memory and RAM. Portenta boards come with WiFi and Bluetooth.

Debugging With Professional Tools

Connect your Portenta H7 to a professional debugger through the JTAG connector. Use professional software tools like the ones from Lauterbach or Segger on top of your board to debug your code step by step. The Vision Shield exposes the required pins for you to plug in your external JTAG.

Getting Started

The Portenta tutorials section at the Arduino Pro website contains all the information you need to configure the Portenta H7, as well as the Vision Shield LoRa®, and the OpenMV editor for computer vision applications.

Specifications

• a 320x320 pixels camera sensor: use one of the cores in Portenta to run image recognition algorithms using the OpenMV for Arduino editor
• long range 868/915MHz LoRa wireless connectivity: get your Portenta H7 connected to the Internet of Things with low power consumption
• two on-board microphones for directional sound detection: capture and analyse sound in real-time
• JTAG connector: perform low-level debugging of your Portenta board or special firmware updates using an external programmer
• SD-Card connector: store your captured data in the card, or read configuration files