Do any of the nRF51 or nRF52 devices support the Thread ( or OpenThread ) protocol

[Steven Grunza]

I'm looking into a project that needs to have BLE to communicate with a user and a mesh network to communicate with multiple data gathering nodes connected by 2.4GHz RF links (some nodes will be geographically too far for a direct connection to a central server). One possibility is using BLE and ANT. Another mesh network that seems to be getting popular is Thread. Do any of the nRF51 or nRF52 devices support the Thread protocol?

[endnode]

Hi Steven,

You seems to be looking for nRF52840 chip which was released just 6 weeks ago, see more here and here.

Cheers Jan

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

As @endnode correctly states, the radio of nRF52840 chip support the IEEE 802.15.4 PHY and MAC layers required by the Thread protocol. Currently we don't provide any software stack supporting Thread, but software support for the 802.15.4 standard is scheduled to be released this year, as mentioned in the nRF52840 product launch video.

Please contact your regional sales manager for further questions about supported protocols and releases. If you do not know who this is, please message me your location and I will provide contact details.

Best regards,

Jørgen

[Adrien C.]

I have seen a very interesting demo at CES 2017, with 5-6 nRF52840 dk devices connected together with thread, and also with a Raspberry Pi.

Do you have any availability for the source code of this demo, and for Thread examples ?

Thanks, Adrien

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Please contact your regional sales manager for questions about releases. If you do not know who this is, please message me your location and I will provide contact details.

[Ralf]

Adrien, did you ever get the source code or any further info on this?