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Wireless Quarter Is Published on Behalf Nordic’S Nrf51822 Soc And, According to Integration of an On-Board Speaker, a MEMS During the COVID-19 Pandemic Issue 4, 2020 GREENER HOUSE GAS: HYDROGEN SMART METERS HOLD THE KEY TO CLEANER ENERGY MUSIC UNPLUGGED: A PERFECT BLEND OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY THE PATENT DEBATE: WHY STANDARD ESSENTIAL PATENTS AREN’T WORKING The IoT is the New Normal To remain viable in a post COVID-19 world, business and industry are embracing the IoT on a massive scale NORDIC ADDS Wi-Fi ACCELERATING THE INSIDE THE TO ITS PORTFOLIO SMART HOME VISION nRF CONNECT SDK Contents Welcome News 3 Svenn-Tore Larsen News News Extra 7 CEO The latest developments from Nordic Semiconductor Nordic adds Wi-Fi to IoT portfolio Analysis 8 Project CHIP aims to unlock Smart Home Amazon smart home potential ordic’s staff are committed to a vision of the company becoming a billion-dollar firm in the next several years. But Comment 9 Nordic and Amazon LE Audio moves a step closer Nit’s an ambitious target and we won’t get there unless we Wi-Fi is rapidly maintain existing client loyalty and attract new business. IoT is the New Normal 10 evolving into We regularly ask our customers how we can get better and it collaborate on The pandemic accelerates an industrial seems that while we’ve built a leading reputation in short range adoption of wireless tech IoT protocol. wireless and are making an impact with our low power cellular IoT Sidewalk project Greener House Gas 14 solutions, our customers would like an end-to-end IoT solution That makes Cellular IoT-powered hydrogen Nordic Semiconductor and Amazon are cooperating on the from Nordic; one capable of connecting wireless sensors to the it a perfect smart meters in the pipeline development of Bluetooth LE solutions for Amazon Sidewalk, a Cloud, for every application. complement neighborhood network designed to help customer devices work better Music Unplugged 18 We’ve now taken a big step towards addressing this request to Nordic’s at home and beyond the front door. Making music in the 21st century by adding Wi-Fi expertise and Wi-Fi IP to Nordic through the Amazon Sidewalk is based on a new protocol operating in the 900 is a merger of art and technology existing product MHz band which can extend the working range of many smart home acquisition of the Wi-Fi team from Imagination Technologies. applications by up to one kilometer. The capability allows consumers 22 portfolio Patent Debate Imagination has a focus on graphics, vision and AI processing to position smart devices in places that the home wireless network Why are standard essential patents while Nordic concentrates on wireless tech. The transfer of previously failed to reach. Sidewalk can also help simplify new device help our customers build smart home products that will bring even not working as they should? Imagination’s Ensigma Wi-Fi assets to Nordic makes a lot of sense setup and help devices stay online and up-to-date even if they are greater convenience, flexibility and safety to consumers,” says Kjetil Nordic Inside 24 for both firms as they each focus on their core competencies. outside the range of home Wi-Fi. Holstad, Director of Product Management at Nordic Semiconductor. Nordic is collaborating with Amazon to ensure it can offer customers Elsewhere, Nordic announced that the latest version of its nRF Sphero RVR Originally developed as a consumer electronics technology, development support for its Bluetooth LE solutions when used with Connect SDK includes example application software code for Alexa Case Study 26 Wi-Fi is rapidly evolving into an industrial IoT protocol. That makes Amazon Sidewalk technology and its associated ecosystem. Gadgets. Alexa Gadgets are Bluetooth connected, interactive LTE-M smart watch looks it a perfect complement to Nordic’s existing product portfolio. Support for Amazon Sidewalk follows on from Nordic’s existing companion devices that work with Amazon Echo devices. out for athletes And the competencies the new Wi-Fi team bring will perfectly cooperation with Amazon Common Software (ACS), a platform to When a product is built with the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit technology, help accelerate the development of smart home and other wireless a customer can use Alexa, Amazon’s Cloud-based voice service, to Industry Viewpoint 27 complement Nordic’s existing staff. These new employees will be products. Nordic Semiconductor intends to provide and maintain a interact with that product. Marko Kadunc - MDCN Technologies warmly welcomed into the operations and culture of one of the Device Porting Kit (DPK) for its wireless chips that allows them to be By using the example code produced with the nRF Connect SDK, best semiconductor companies in the world to work for. Tech Zone News 28 easily and natively integrated into ACS as one of its reference platforms. developers can accelerate time-to-market for Alexa Gadgets based on Power Profiler Kit II samples It will take time to design and build Nordic Wi-Fi products but “By cooperating with Amazon Sidewalk and ACS, we will be able to Nordic’s nRF52 Series or nRF53 Series SoCs. (See pg30.) ten times faster in the near future we will become one of a very select group of vendors who can globally supply all three key IoT technologies: Tech Briefing 29 Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi and cellular IoT. That will be a proud milestone Education Smart Health Inside the nRF Connect SDK moment for the company. Tech Briefing 30 micro:bit to support COVID-19 tracker nRF5340 now ready for high volume AI, machine learning aims to get people Nordic Product Summary 32 The Micro:bit Educational Foundation has back to work launched a new version of its pocket-sized educational computer, the first major A wearable Bluetooth LE tracker, that uses update since the launch of the original BBC Educational Foundation and a joint lead on the Direction Finding and Long Range technology micro:bit in 2016. original BBC project. to ensure accurate social distancing The original micro:bit was powered by Additional enhancements include the compliance, is helping staff at return to work Wireless Quarter is published on behalf Nordic’s nRF51822 SoC and, according to integration of an on-board speaker, a MEMS during the COVID-19 pandemic. of Nordic Semiconductor by Ecritech Media the Foundation, helped inspire more than 25 microphone input with LED indicator, a The Nordic-powered Mimic S device capacitive touch sensor under the logo Editor million children in over 60 countries to learn launched by U.S.-based startup, Smart Steven Keeping [email protected] The Bluetooth® word mark and logos are digital creativity and computing skills. and built-in sleep/off mode. Together the Mimic, uses Direction Finding to trigger an registered trademarks owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Nordic The new micro:bit is based on Nordic’s upgrades enable the micro:bit to support new alarm whenever two employees come within Assistant Editor Semiconductor is under license. Chris Williams [email protected] nRF52833 SoC. The 64MHz, 32-bit Arm complex functionality such as AI and machine two meters of one another, or spend longer © Nordic Semiconductor 2020 Production Editor Cortex-M4 processor with floating point learning applications that respond to sound, than 30 seconds in close proximity. Andrew Woolls-King [email protected] unit offers a powerful upgrade over its voice, motion and light patterns. Collected data is then sent to a Creative Director predecessor, in addition to twice the Flash “The purpose of the micro:bit is to help smartphone-free, Cloud Sam Grimmer memory and eight times the RAM allocation. children unlock their creative potential and gateway and can be used to Image Editors “Nordic Semiconductor was pivotal in the learn how to shape the world around them. provide a workforce-wide Subscribe @NordicTweets Like us Follow us Forum: devzone. Nathan Sargent, Neale Hobday nordicsemi.com original development of the BBC micro:bit Learning coding and computational thinking ‘heat map’ of risky contacts Print & Distribution and remains pivotal to its success to this day,” can enhance their life chances in the 21st on a dashboard as well as an Printech Europe To subscribe to WQ visit www.nordicsemi.com/wqmag says Gareth Stockdale, CEO of the Micro:bit century,” says Stockdale. employee head count. 2 W Issue 4 2020 Issue 4 2020 W 3 News In Brief Industrial IoT nRF9160 EXPANDS REACH Nordic’s nRF9160 cellular IoT SiP has Dual cellular IoT, Bluetooth LE asset expanded its global reach following recent Cellular asset tracker can operate certification and partnership announcements. tracker delivers global coverage The SiP has been certified for use on China on harvested solar energy alone Telecom’s NB-IoT network that serves over 50 million customers through more than Australian company, AirBolt, has combined 400,000 NB-IoT base stations. In Japan the low power cellular connectivity and assisted A Dutch engineering and design company suddenly become an important issue,” says SiP has been certified by Marubeni Group for GPS alongside Bluetooth LE and Direction has unveiled what it claims is the world’s first SODAQ CEO, Jan Willem Smeenk. use on cellphone operator NTT DoCoMo’s Finding technology in a tracking device. The solar-powered, perpetual operation cellular “First there is the cost issue of having to LTE-M network, that covers more than 99.8 lightweight and waterproof AirBolt GPS IoT asset tracker. SODAQ says in low duty check and replace batteries which in large IoT percent of the country’s 127 million population. offers both precise localized and global asset cycle applications comprising up to eight installations quickly become the single biggest tracking functionality. ‘pings’ a day, its TRACK SOLAR device will cost factor over an IoT product or sensor’s AirBolt integrates Nordic’s nRF9160 SiP operate continually on harvested solar energy lifetime.
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