With the introduction of the nRF7000 Wi-Fi companion IC, we now offer a complete silicon-to-cloud locationing solution with Wi-Fi, cellular IoT, and GNSS. The nRF7000 is optimized for Wi-Fi network scanning, and together with the nRF91 Seri...

As engineers and developers creating IoT products, you will rely on various resources to bring your ideas to life. Oftentimes, one of the most indispensable resources gets overlooked, and it's one you will typically rely on the most during all st...

Low power is one of the cornerstones of Nordic’s cellular IoT solution. The nRF91 Series is built from the ground up with ultra-low power consumption in mind, and the nRF Connect SDK provides applications and samples that optimize the device's ...

The Thread protocol is a reliable, secure, and scalable solution for low-power IoT devices. One of the important aspects of its implementation is drawing as little power as possible. This ensures a long lifetime for battery-powered devices, making th...

The introduction of NB-IoT (Narrowband IoT) and LTE-M (LTE for machine-type communication) revolutionized the landscape for IoT, making the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) a key player in IoT enablement. These technologies are collectively ...

One of the key benefits of the nRF Connect SDK is that it contains many drivers, libraries, and subsystems offering a comprehensive set of features, allowing developers to focus on their application and accelerate their time to market. However, there...

The development of cellular IoT often requires insight into the network traffic and parameters provided by the network operator, information that isn’t always available through the application itself or easily captured by an external device. No...

Bluetooth Mesh is gaining a stronger position to become the go-to technology for professional lighting and other building-related control networks, with a noticeable increase in focus on commercial spaces. The potential reason for this turn of events...

The world's first non-cellular 5G technology has been getting some attention recently, ever since it was standardized by ETSI in 2020 and later adopted as a 5G standard in 2022. DECT NR+, or DECT-2020 NR as the standard is technically called, is the ...

Development tools are essential for embedded software developers, especially those crafting embedded software for IoT products typically centered around resource-constrained wireless SoCs such as Nordic's nRF52, nRF53, or nRF91 Series device...

I have long been interested in music production and the creation of audio devices lately. Working at Nordic Semiconductor as a student, I learnt about transmitting audio through Bluetooth, which intrigued me. Especially the new and exciting Bluetooth...

Reliability and latency are the key parameters to be optimized to achieve a seamless experience for the end users in the Bluetooth mesh based lighting control systems containing switches, sensors, and light fixtures.In this blog post, we present...

Embedded software for IoT applications often requires a high degree of optimization, especially around fitting the image into constrained Flash/RAM space and reaching tight power consumption targets. In 2018 Nordic released the nRF Connect SDK, ...

Nordic provides a unique one-stop solution for asset tracking applications. We provide the hardware, software, connectivity, and the cloud services. Our low-power nRF9160 SiP has a multimode modem that supports both LTE-M and NB-IoT, as well as...

Introduction to PSA Certified IoT Security Framework Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are designed to connect to the internet and/or exchange information with other devices, making them a target for hackers who can exploit security vulnerabilities. I...

Last month Nordic released the nRF7002 DK, our first ever Wi-Fi Development Kit (DK), featuring the nRF7002 companion IC. The DK includes everything you would need to test the Wi-Fi capabilities of our new IC, including a 2.4/5 GHz antenna ...

Bluetooth SIG has finally adopted the Bluetooth® v5.4 core specification. This means that a new set of exciting features are available for Bluetooth products along with all the advantages they provide. Two of the major improvements are Periodic A...

In this blog post, we will get you up and running with your nRF7002 Development Kit (DK). We will first show you how to securely connect the nRF7002 DK to your Wi-Fi network and then how to establish bidirectional communication over Wi-Fi using MQTT.

Written by Kaja Koren, Lena Haraldseid, Halvor Bjørstad, Martin Moldsvor & Magnus Stentsøe The summer students in Nordic's application group spent this summer developing an interactive game using Nordic hardware, to demonstrate ...

If you are interested in smart home solutions and trying to keep up with the latest trends, you have likely heard about Matter. My name is Kamil Kasperczyk, I am a firmware engineer at Nordic Semiconductor, and I spent most of my days developing Matt...

nRF Util is Nordic's command line utility for Nordic products. You can easily use it to flash applications onto your Nordic device through a terminal. In the most recent major version update, v7.0.0, we saw major changes to the architecture and ...

The Thingy:53 is a bleeding edge IoT prototyping platform featuring the flagship nRF5340 dual-core Wireless SoC. It also contains several sensors and a rechargeable Li-Po battery, making it an excellent tool to rapidly prototype an application that c...

If you are a human, as opposed to a microcontroller, you might want an easy and intuitive way to read out data from your application. Adding a small OLED display to your project is a simple solution for this. Low-cost OLED displays are easily availab...

Introduction Storing data is important for analysis and displaying information. Since device messages are stored on the nRF Cloud for 30 days, you have to forward them to another database if you want to store them for a longer time period. This can b...

Edge computing is a powerful way to be able to implement low power resource-saving machine learning in your application. Using Edge Impulse alongside the nRF52840 or nRF5340, you can do simple machine learning tasks such as mono audio processing. Th...