
Review: RAK8213 LTE Cat M1/NB1 IoT Modem
The RakWireless RAK8213 is a Quectel BG96 based 4G LTE Cat M1/Cat NB1/EGPRS modem in a PCI Express MiniCard Form Factor. LTE categories M1/NB1 combined with innovations including Power Saving Mode (PSM) and Extended Discontinuous Reception (eDRX) can rival power consumption and battery life of other IoT Technologies such as LoRa and Sigfox. The RAK8213 is available from Aliexpress for just $39.90 USD. The BG96 includes an integrated TCP/IP stack with HTTP and MQTT client, greatly simplifying firmware development. The RAK8213 features: LTE Cat M1, Cat NB1 (NB-IoT) and EGPRS. GNSS – Support for GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou/Compass, Galileo and QZSS. Ultra Low Power. …