Data Sheet

WVT-RM130
1. Summary
The WVT-RM130 module is very small highly integrated, cost-effective, smart radio, sub-1 GHz
wireless node solution composed of a transmitter using DBPSK modulation with a low-power
ARM Cortex M0+ CPU. The highly integrated RF transceiver operates over a wide frequency
range including 315MHz, 433MHz, 470MHz, 868MHz, 915MHz in the license-free Industrial,
Scientific and Medical (ISM) frequency bands. This configuration allows users to minimize the use
of external components.
Key benefits
Waviot proprietary radio protocol
Supports LoRa
Best radio modem for smart metering
20 miles in harsh city environment
20 years on AA battery
LoRa and UNB resulting in small antennas
Low power not sacrificing link budget
Option to embed users firmware into
modems MCU
Data rate 6-100bps via Waviot

Applications:
Automated Meter Reading
Wireless Smart Agriculture
Home and Building Automation
Wireless Alarm and Security Systems
Industrial Monitoring and Control

Interface with module

The WVT-RM130 communicates with the host
MCU over a UART interface RX, TX pins.
Host MCU can use set of commands to set the
carrier frequency of WVT-RM130 and send data
to the Waviot Network.
The serial interface is designed to operate using
serial protocol parameters: LVTTL electrical level,
9600 bps, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity.

General
25.4x12.7x3.8mm, land grid array packaging
Operating temperature range -40 ~ +85oC

Radio
186 dB maximum link budget
Output power range -218.6dBm
Output power step 1dB
Excellent blocking immunity
Low RX current of 9.9 mA, 200 nA register
retention
Supply voltage 3.3V

Power
TX 120mA @ 18.6dBm, 90mA @ 16dBm
Sleep mode with RAM retention and wake-up
timer running 1.5 A
Microcontroller
ARM Cortex-M3 32-bit CPU platform:
Wake-up Interrupt Controller
32.768 kHz Crystal Oscillator
128kByte
10 General Purpose I/O pins:
Configurable push-pull, open-drain, pullup/down, input filter, drive strength
Pin Interrupt
Output state retention and wake-up from
Shut-off Mode
Communication interface
Low Energy UART
2-pin Serial Wire Debug interface

2. WVT-RM130 Functional Block Diagram

3. Pin-Out Description

Symbol

Pin

Description

GND
GND
reserved
GPIO
DBG_SWCLC
DBG_SWDIO
GPIO
GPIO
VDD
GPIO
GND
GND
GND
RST

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

Ground
Ground

GPIO
GPIO
GPIO
TX

15
16
17
18

RX

19

GPIO
GPIO
GND
RF GND

20
21
22
23

RF

24

RF GND

25

General purpose I/O

Debug interface
Debug interface
General purpose I/O
General purpose I/O
Power supply
General purpose I/O
Ground
Ground
Ground
Active low hardware
reset input
General purpose I/O
General purpose I/O
General purpose I/O
Low energy UART
output
Low energy UART
input
General purpose I/O
General purpose I/O
Ground
Radio frequency
ground
50 Ohm single ended
antenna connection
Radio frequency
ground

4. Dimensional drawing

5. Electrical Matching
Core of the radio module is EFM32G210F128-QFN32 Microcontroller. Below is schematic prints of
the radio module. For more detailed matching please refer to Tiny Gecko data sheet which is
usually supplied with this document.