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Issue 1, 2020 UNWIRED FOR SOUND: THE LE AUDIO MUSIC REVOLUTION THE AI OF THINGS: MAKING SENSE OF THE IoT DATA OVERLOAD GET SMART: BRINGING PRECISION TO ENERGY MANAGEMENT Ahead of the Game How wireless tech is transforming sports performance NORDIC AND AMAZON’S DEMOCRATIZING WHAT’S NEW IN THE SMART HOME ALLIANCE SMART ORAL HYGIENE BLUETOOTH 5.2 SPEC Contents Welcome News Nordic and Amazon partnership 3 Svenn-Tore Larsen News CEO The latest developments from Nordic Semiconductor News Extra Next generation wireless audio 7 Analysis Smart Home Smart toothbrushes promote hen we planned this edition of Wireless Quarter, global oral hygiene 8 coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, was Nordic and Amazon just breaking out in China. It wasn’t apparent then that Bright lights Comment W the virus would cause the pandemic that currently afflicts the 2020 - the year of cellular IoT 9 during this crisis partner to speed world. Because of the status of the virus at that time we didn’t are the Nordic Ahead of the Game include anything in this edition about it or its implications. But we customers Wireless tech helps train have now changed the planned Welcome column because it’s vital smart home products future sports stars 10 using our to acknowledge the huge challenge the world faces and the tens Nordic Semiconductor is working with Amazon Common Software Unwired for Sound of thousands that have already lost their lives to COVID-19. technology (ACS) to help accelerate the development of smart home and LE Audio promises enhanced Like the business community across the globe at this challenging to fight the other wireless products. sound quality 14 time, Nordic places the safety and protection of its staff and coronavirus ACS provides a single, unified API integration layer for multiple Amazon SDKs including providing components that are The performance of The AI of Things community at the top of its prorities. For example, employees are Nordic’s nRF52 and nRF53 prevalidated and memory optimized for common smart home Series SoCs makes them Making sense of IoT data 18 now working remotely to limit exposure to coronavirus. And we product functions. Amazon says ACS is designed to benefit any a good match for the are committed to doing our best to contribute to the wellbeing of developer building products using Amazon SDKs by giving them the type of advanced smart Get Smart home products Amazon other people and businesses, in all ways possible. ability to use prebuilt and prehardened software components. This will Driving smart meter adoption 22 envisions for ACS Bright lights during this crisis are the Nordic customers using accelerate integration of the SDKs and help reduce both development Nordic Inside our tech to fight the coronavirus. For example, the tech is being and maintenance costs. Amazon says ACS includes an extensive test suite that can be used brings through our multiple award-winning wireless chips and PitPat 24 used to notify when people have come into contact with infected to verify and debug an ACS implementation. By building on ACS, extensive customer base,” says Kjetil Holstad, Director of Product Case Study people and reinforce hygiene regimes. You can read more about developers can expect to launch devices more quickly and easily Management at Nordic. Farm Jenny horse monitoring this on the news feed at the Nordic website and in our Get than before, using some of the same technology that Amazon uses “Our market leading nRF52 Series and the newly released nRF53 platform 26 [Connected] Blog. And the next edition of WQ will include a deeper in its own devices. Series Bluetooth LE devices offer very low power consumption, Partnering with Nordic analysis of the wireless technology being used to fight the virus. Nordic intends to provide and maintain a Device Porting Kit (DPK) for stellar security performance and a high amount of on-chip memory While today’s challenge is tough, there will be a time when it’s its wireless chips that allows them to be easily and natively integrated which makes them perfect for the type of advanced smart home Building programmable robots 27 into ACS as a reference platform. Initial DPKs will be based on products Amazon envisions for [ACS]. We’re looking forward to over. In preparation for that day, our operation is largely continuing Tech Zone News Bluetooth LE, with other wireless technologies following in the future. working with Amazon and the device makers using its services to build as previously planned. And we’ll continue to develop strong Nordic unveils range extender 28 “We’re happy that Amazon recognizes the value that Nordic some great new applications.” customer relationships and deliver on their expectations. Tech Perspective We believe the technology being developed today will not only What’s new in Bluetooth 5.2 29 help us to fight the current pandemic, but also put us in a better Nordic awards Logistics & Transport Tech Briefing position to fight the next one. Stay safe. Inside the nRF9160 30 at the double Cellular IoT and Bluetooth LE asset Nordic Product For the second year in a row and the tracker offers world leading battery life third time in total, Nordic Semiconductor Summary 32 has been named the ‘Most respected Norwegian asset tracking specialist, while also being able to exceed both current emerging public semiconductor company Meshtech, is employing a Nordic nRF9160 and [increasingly strict] future regulations.” achieving $100 million to $500 million in SiP and nRF52811 SoC in the world’s first The Meshtech Cloud Tracker not only annual sales’ by the members of the Global environmental asset tracker to combine continuously monitors environmental Semiconductor Alliance (GSA). cellular IoT and Bluetooth wireless tech with a parameters, but also whether a consignment Launched in 1996, the GSA Awards five-year battery life. has been dropped, tilted or folded, Wireless Quarter is published on behalf of Nordic Semiconductor by Ecritech recognize the achievements of top The Meshtech Cloud Tracker the location of individual shipping www.ecritech.tech performing semiconductor companies. prevents the ongoing compensation items within a consignment, the order in which they were loaded Editor They are widely considered one of the most costs routinely incurred in the Steven Keeping [email protected] The Bluetooth® word mark and logos are prestigious awards in the industry. supply of perishable goods at risk of and unloaded and the location of the registered trademarks owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Nordic “We are delighted to receive such high spoiling, being delivered to wrong consignment. Assistant Editor Semiconductor is under license. Chris Williams [email protected] independent recognition ... from the GSA,” customer locations or delivered in “Suppliers [now have] © Nordic Semiconductor 2020 Production Editor says Nordic CEO, Svenn-Tore Larsen. the wrong quantities. environmental data-driven Andrew Woolls-King [email protected] Meanwhile the company’s Thingy:91 “Our Cloud Tracker [detects] delivery or insights into how their goods are loaded, Creative Director cellular IoT prototyping platform has won storage issues quickly enough that they can stored, and shipped that could eliminate the Sam Grimmer the Technical Innovation Award in the be corrected without jeopardizing an entire majority of their compensation losses,” adds Image Editors China IoT Innovation Awards, 2020. It is the consignment,” says Meshtech Interim CEO, Skretteberg. “None of this was viable before Subscribe @NordicTweets Like us Follow us Forum: devzone. Nathan Sargent, Neale Hobday nordicsemi.com second year running Nordic has claimed the Preben Skretteberg. “This means perishable the advent of cellular IoT which has made Print & Distribution respected award, last year winning with its goods suppliers now have a viable way to environmental asset tracking feasible and Printech Europe To subscribe to WQ visit www.nordicsemi.com/wqmag nRF Connect for Cloud development tool. prevent unnecessary compensation costs, scalable in a way that wasn’t possible before.” 2 W Issue 1 2020 Issue 1 2020 W 3 News In Brief Sports & Fitness Wearables IoT OFFERS BOOST FOR REMOTE MONITORING Analyst Facts and NB-IoT cellular bike security Citizen Watch and Nordic partner Factors Market Research predicts the global IoT tracker turns up heat on thieves on solar powered custom watch healthcare market will increase in value to $21 billion in 2025 from $9.1 Northern Ireland cycling startup, See.Sense, Citizen Watch, one of the world’s leading the score via the hands of the smartwatch. billion in 2018, at a CAGR of around 12.59 has launched the world’s first cellular bike watch manufacturers, has released the Alternatively, a press of a button could trigger percent. The analyst said the successful use security tracker. The tracker uses both NB- Eco-Drive Riiiver, a fully customizable solar the smartwatch to send the user’s current of the IoT in remotely monitoring diabetics IoT and GPS to locate and track bikes from a powered watch employing Nordic’s location to nominated contacts with a pre- and asthma patients—along with high user’s smartphone for up to three months on nRF52810 Bluetooth LE SoC to provide the set message, for example “I’ve arrived”. penetration of connected technology across a single charge from an internal rechargeable wireless connectivity. Wireless connectivity between the health, fitness and wellness industry— lithium polymer battery. Unlike conventional watches that the smartwatch and the user’s had assisted in minimizing hospital stays and The 80 g See.Sense AIR is about half have prefixed button functions, smartphone is provided by the readmissions. Such advantages would drive the size of a deck of playing cards and is Eco-Drive Riiiver allows users Nordic SoC.