nRF52 long range demo supported by nRF51840 PDK?

[henry lau]

hi,

Does engineering B sample support BLE long range? What is the latest hardware/software to be used? What is the typical range that we can achieve? 

Thanks in advance.

Hardware:

nRF52840 PDK (PCA10056, 0.11.0, 2018.3, 683127698).  

Software:

NordicPlayground/nRF52-ble-long-range-demo

https://github.com/NordicPlayground/nRF52-ble-long-range-demo

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Hi!

Does engineering B sample support BLE long range?

Yes, engineering sample B does support Long Range.

What is the latest hardware/software to be used?

You can check out our compability matrix for the nRF52840 to see the latest IC revisions and which software it's compatible with. 

IC Revision Overview

IC Revisions, SDK and Softdevice compability matrix

What is the typical range that we can achieve?

What range you will acheive is very dependend on the environment. Physical obstacles, noise etc. will impact the range you can acheive.

Take a look at this blog-post, where you can find alot more information and some range-tests that we have done.

Testing Long Range (CODED PHY) with Nordic solution

Best regards,
Joakim Jakobsen