Atom Design and Innovation

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Proton Hotspot Miner

STRATEGY

Identifying untapped shared value opportunities in society and transforming them into innovative products.

DESIGN

Conceptualising, planning and co-creation of functional and inspirational products.

REALIZATION

Rapidly developing products with design & innovation.

Mining with Hotspots via radio technology.

ATOM IS AN AFRICAN PRODUCT DESIGN AND INNOVATION COMPANY

Atom Design and Innovation (Pty) Ltd was established in 2021. It is based in South Africa with an office in Paarl. The team consists of highly skilled and experienced engineers in the IOT industry. This company was established to design, manufacture and service existing IOT devices. The mission of this company is to build community networks by utilising the Helium network and combining this with existing devices via the LoRa network.

Most of our existing devices are shipped and used within South Africa. We have also shipped devices to Botswana, Zambia, Namibia and Zimbabwe. We have an excellent understanding of the needs for the African market.

Our main product areas are in IoT modules, LoRa gateways and node devices. We have over 30 IoT related products currently in active production. We are busy prototyping our own Full Hotspot and our device will be called the Proton Hotspot Miner. The main features of the Proton can be viewed below. The Proton Hotspot Miner is a brand new, high-performance, ready-to-use LoRaWAN indoor gateway powered by the Helium LongFi™ Network. Helium provides miles of wireless network coverage and data transmission capacity for LoRaWAN devices.

The key features of the Proton gateway will be discussed in detail.

In the future we will also be investigating a solar solution for the Proton Hotspot Miner to target rural areas who can benefit from IoT devices. In some cases, mining will not be possible, due to power and/or access to internet constraints. In these cases, we will be able to provide these communities with a hotspot, purely to capture and transfer data from IoT devices. See below an example of our first prototype being used at a school in Paarl to provide a safety network by combining the hotspot with panic buttons to notify first responders.

The forecast for production is as follow:

October 2021 – 10 x Proton Hotspot Miner

November 2021 – 20 x Proton Hotspot Miner

December 2021 – 50 x Proton Hotspot Miner

January 2022 – 100 x Proton Hotspot Miner

February 2022 – 500 x Proton Hotspot Miner

The MOQ supply of Hotspots will be revised during this process as we finalise the design, procurement of components and suppliers.

Key Components

Raspberry Pi Compute
WM1302 LoRa Gateway

Features

Connectivity

Ports	Type	Description
2	USB (host)	2 x USB 2.0 ports
1	USB (OTG)	Single USB 2.0 on-the-go port
1	HDMI	Single HDMI interfaces, at resolutions up to 4K
1	Camera	Single MIPI CSI-2 camera interfaces
1	Ethernet	One Ethernet interface

Processing

Part	Description
Processor	Broadcom BCM2711 quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz
Memory	2GB LPDDR4-3200 SDRAM
Storage	32GB eMMC Flash memory
Video	H.265 (HEVC) (up to 4Kp60 decode), H.264 (up to 1080p60 decode, 1080p30 encode)
Graphics	OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.0

Radio Interface

Part	Description
WiFi	2.4GHz and 5GHz IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ac wireless LAN
Bluetooth	Bluetooth 5.0, BLE
LoRaWAN	LoRaWAN gateway based on LoRa Concentrator Semtech SX1302

Other

Part
RTC	Real-time clock with backup battery
Plugin	Plugin interface surfacing GPIOs and serial communication (I2C, SPI)

Certifications

Module
WM1302 (LoRa Gateway)	Certified with CE, FCC, and TELEC
Raspberry PI CM4	TBD