Top 10 inexpensive wireless modules for your Internet of things (IOT) project

Top 10 inexpensive wireless modules for your Internet of things (IOT) project:

"IOT internet of things is said to be the vast upcoming revolution in which things will sense, compute and communicate".

In this vast competition among companies the issue of security and protocols are general but rather than caring about them makers are on the move to change the world .for them i have decided to start my own experience & research on internet of things & hardware being used worldwide for wireless hassle free IOT projects.

[1] Intel Edison:

The Intel Edison is a tiny computer offered by Intel as a development system for wearable devices. The system was initially announced to be the same size and shape as an SD card and contain a dual-core Intel Quark x86 CPU at 400 MHz communicating via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. A later announcement changed the CPU to a 22 nm Silvermont dual-core Intel Atom CPU, and in September 2014 a second version of Edison was shown at IDF, which was bigger and thicker than a standard SD card.

[2] samsung artik:

ARTIK packs the future of IoT into an incredibly small and powerful frame. With a tiered architecture optimized for performance, optimized power consumption and memory utilization and footprint, the ARTIK hardware is built to drive wearables, smart homes and other applications.

ARTIK is a production-ready IoT development platform that puts power in the hands of developers to create wearable tech, smart devices and hubs faster, more easily and at lower cost, and shorten the time to market.

If you want to find more about ARTIK, please visit www.artik.io

[3] ESP8266:

The ESP8266 WiFi Module is a self contained SOC with integrated TCP/IP protocol stack that can give any microcontroller access to your WiFi network. The ESP8266 is capable of either hosting an application or offloading all Wi-Fi networking functions from another application processor. Each ESP8266 module comes pre-programmed with an AT command set firmware, meaning, you can simply hook this up to your Arduino device and get about as much WiFi-ability as a WiFi Shield offers (and that’s just out of the box)! The ESP8266 module is an extremely cost effective board with a huge, and ever growing, community.

[4] zigbee:

ZigBee is a IEEE 802.15.4-based specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols used to create personal area networks with small, low-power digital radios.

The technology defined by the ZigBee specification is intended to be simpler and less expensive than other wireless personal area networks (WPANs), such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Applications include wireless light switches, electrical meters with in-home-displays, traffic management systems, and other consumer and industrial equipment that requires short-range low-rate wireless data transfer.

[5] nrf24l01:

The nRF24L01 integrates a complete 2.4GHz RF transceiver, RF synthesizer, and baseband logic including the Enhanced ShockBurst™ hardware tors, or VCO varactor diodes are required, only a low cost ±60ppm crystal, matching circuitry, and antenna.protocol accelerator supporting a high-speed SPI interface for the application controller. No external loop filter, resona

The Nordic nRF24L01 is available in a compact 20-pin 4 x 4mm QFN package.

[6] cc3200:

single-chip microcontroller unit (MCU) with built-in Wi-Fi connectivity. Created for the Internet of Things (IoT), the SimpleLink CC3200 device is a wireless MCU that integrates a high-performance ARM Cortex-M4 MCU, allowing customers to develop an entire application with a single IC.

[7] Photon by Particle (sparkfun):

Every product starts as a prototype. Our hardware development kits — the Photon (Wi-Fi) and the Electron (2G/3G cellular) — help you build your first IoT prototype in minutes. Write your firmware in our web IDE, deploy it over the air, and build your web and mobile apps with ParticleJS and our Mobile SDK.

[8] BLE module cc2541:

If you are in need of such a 4.0 BLE Bluetooth module, MCU can be set up,also can controlled by a remote Bluetooth device for setting,can transfer data, and can remotely control 10 PIO pins,so,the best choice is HM-10 bluetooth module. can replace HC-05, HC-06, HC-07 etc.

Support Central and Peripheral mode switch, modify by AT commander.

Support Remote control mode, remote device can control PIO pin or modify settings by AT commander when Connected. (such as Iphone4s/5 ipad, Note2 etc.)

[9] Raspberry pi:

The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card–sized single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools and developing countries.

The original Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi 2 are manufactured in several board configurations through licensed manufacturing agreements with Newark element14 (Premier Farnell), RS Components and Egoman. These companies sell the Raspberry Pi online. Egoman produces a version for distribution solely in Taiwan, which can be distinguished from other Pis by their red colouring and lack of FCC/CE marks. The hardware is the same across all manufacturers.

[10] Arduino:

Arduino is an open-source prototyping platform based on easy-to-use

hardware and software. Arduino boards are able to read inputs - light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter message - and turn it into an output - activating a motor, turning on an LED, publishing something online. You can tell your board what to do by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller on the board. To do so you use the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring), and the Arduino Software (IDE), based on Processing.