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Wireless Quarter Issue 1, 2021 WHAT LIES BENEATH: IoT MONITORING KEEPS CITY INFRASTRUCTURE HUMMING ON THE LEVEL: CELLULAR IoT STOPS TANKS RUNNING DRY THIS WAY UP: ENSURING CRITICAL CARGO ARRIVES The IN ONE PIECE Last Mile Wireless tech is making micromobility safe and secure for post-pandemic commuters ARE SEMICONDUCTORS TRACK VALUABLES POWER PROFILING IMMUNE TO COVID-19? FROM ANYWHERE MADE SIMPLE Welcome Contents News 4 Alf Helge Omre News Extra 10 Business Development Manager - Transportation Combining wMBus and LPWANs for Cloud connected gateways Analysis 12 t Nordic, we’re close to many of the major changes the Chip industry shows COVID-19 immunity but challenges ahead pandemic has enforced. That’s because our tech has not only been used to fight COVID-19 but also to support other People on Comment 13 A Coming of age for the IoT sectors that have transformed during these tough times. bicycles, instead Online buying is one example. It’s booming and that has led to of being in cars, The Last Mile 14 demand for tech such as wireless asset tracking to monitor the Micromobility solutions are on the buses and location of billions of packages as they speed across the planet. rise to solve the last mile problem It is one change that looks like it’s here to stay; one analyst, trains, go a long What Lies Beneath 18 Research&Markets, forecasts the asset tracking market will way towards Wireless monitoring keeps city double from $17 billion in 2020 to $34 billion by 2026. cutting carbon infrastructure working Another area undergoing huge upheaval is micromobility. When emissions On the Level 24 the pandemic started, those that could worked from home. But Wireless tech is helping track as vaccines have started to be administered and people have tank levels to prevent shortages returned to the factory, bank, shop or office, many have chosen to This Way Up 28 stay away from public transport and take to two wheels. Asset trackers move beyond As a result, cycling—as well as skateboarding, scooting and other location monitoring forms of human-powered transport—has boomed. Now cities like Nordic Inside 30 Leicester in the U.K. have followed cycling capital Copenhagen’s ArcX smart ring example by closing streets to cars and introducing tens of Case Study 32 kilometers of ‘pop-up’ bike lanes to make bike commuting safer. Tracker combines cellular IoT, WORK SOMEWHERE AWESOME Better yet, people on bicycles, instead of being in cars, buses GPS and Bluetooth LE and trains, go a long way towards cutting carbon emissions. That Industry Viewpoint 33 helps a lot if ambitious commitments such as the U.K.’s 80 percent Jan Willem Smeenk - SODAQ reduction in emissions by 2050 and France’s carbon neutrality by Tech Zone News 34 the same year are to be met. Cellular IoT reference design Will cycle commuting continue to boom in a post-pandemic slashes costs world? I’d like to think so, and wireless tech is already playing its Tech Briefing 36 We are increasing our global footprint and part. Cycle sharing, safety, navigation and control are all served by Power profiling made simple Nordic customers. You can read more about how on page 14. continuing our journey by opening new offices WQ Live Events 38 Join the debate about AI and ML across the globe. Do you dare to join a wireless on resource constrained chips tech pioneer and be a part of our team? Nordic Product Summary 40 Issue 1, 2021 WHAT LIES BENEATH: IoT MONITORING KEEPS CITY INFRASTRUCTURE HUMMING ON THE LEVEL: CELLULAR IoT STOPS TANKS RUNNING DRY THIS WAY UP: ENSURING CRITICAL Wireless Quarter is published on behalf CARGO ARRIVES of Nordic Semiconductor by Ecritech Media The IN ONE PIECE Editor Last Mile Steven Keeping [email protected] The Bluetooth® word mark and logos are Wireless tech is making registered trademarks owned by the Bluetooth micromobility safe and secure for post-pandemic commuters SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Nordic Assistant Editor Semiconductor is under license. Chris Williams [email protected] © Nordic Semiconductor 2021 Production Editor Andrew Woolls-King [email protected] Creative Director Sam Grimmer Image Editors Check out our current vacancies at Subscribe @NordicTweets Like us Follow us Forum: devzone. Nathan Sargent, Neale Hobday nordicsemi.com nordicsemi.com/job and apply today Print & Distribution ToTo subscribe subscribe to to WQ WQ visit visit www.nordicsemi.com/wqmag www.nordicsemi.com/wqmag ARE SEMICONDUCTORS TRACK VALUABLES POWER PROFILING Printech Europe IMMUNE TO COVID-19? FROM ANYWHERE MADE SIMPLE 2 W Issue 4 2020 Issue 1 2021 W 3 In Brief Smart Health AWARDS AT THE DOUBLE News Nordic Semiconductor, The latest developments from Nordic Semiconductor along with cellular Wireless home test kit helps in connectivity partner, iBASIS, have been Internet of Things fight against COVID-19 named IoT Partnership of the Year at IoT World Digital diagnostic company Ellume has 2020. The award recognizes how the Nordic and Edge Impulse partner on launched a COVID-19 home testing kit companies have simplified global cellular that enables individuals to check for an IoT connectivity based on Nordic’s nRF9160 active infection in 15 minutes or less. The SiP and iBASIS’ Open eSIM technology. AI and machine learning solutions Ellume COVID-19 Home Test uses ultra- Nordic was also recently shortlisted by the sensitive optics, electronics and proprietary Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) for the software to analyze a nasal swab with the 2020 GSA Most Respected Emerging Public ordic Semiconductor has partnered with results automatically transmitted to the Semiconductor Company Award in the $100 U.S. company Edge Impulse to provide user’s smartphone via Nordic nRF52810- million to $500 million annual sales category. Nits customers with easy-to-use powered Bluetooth LE connectivity. From embedded machine learning features as the associated smartphone app, the results WILDLIFE TRACKERS standard for its nRF9160 low power cellular can be transmitted through a secure Cloud GO WIRELESS IoT SiP, as well as its nRF53 and nRF52 Series connection to healthcare professionals. Bluetooth LE SoCs. The test will help reduce the impact of the Two of the winning The partnership will make it pandemic by providing a readily available projects from the easy for developers using Nordic and simple-to-use method to acquire “Using the test, we can all enjoy the benefits of Hackster.io and technology to build and train tiny the information needed to reduce risk of group activity safe in the knowledge that we Smart Parks backed machine learning (TinyML) models transmission. Users will be able to safely present no risk to the vulnerable. That’s a huge ElephantEdge wildlife in Edge Impulse Studio, and deploy recommence group activities at work, school step towards a return to normality.” tracker challenge have these models across Nordic’s or on the sports field. Real-time reporting of The antigen test has demonstrated 96 specified Nordic’s nRF52840 SoC for wireless solutions. This will reduce test results to health authorities, employers percent accuracy compared to an Emergency their elephant tracking collar designs. The development time and make and educators will enable efficient COVID-19 Use Authorization (EUA) molecular test in an challenge aims to replace traditional and the technology more accessible, mapping and rapid reaction to outbreaks. independently-run, U.S. clinical study in five manual methods of elephant monitoring to especially to smaller companies “The home test is the perfect example of states. Ellume has received an EUA from the support conservation efforts in Africa. The without inhouse machine how advanced digital diagnostics and the IoT U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for challenge resulted in solutions which will be learning expertise. can help address the worst impacts of the its solution. The company plans to deliver 20 deployed onto 10 collars. “[This partnership] takes the “Now, using Edge Impulse power line failure detection for utilities. But SARS-CoV-2 pandemic,” says Geir Langeland, million Ellume COVID-19 Home Tests to the application potential of wireless tools, Nordic customers could all applications stand to benefit from TinyML, Director of Sales & Marketing with Nordic. U.S. within the first half of 2021. SHARE BIKE FIRMS IoT technologies such as Bluetooth be running TinyML on their from asset tracking to wearables. LE to a whole new level in terms applications within hours. And at “This partnership is bringing AI and machine LAUD NORDIC of environmental awareness and autonomous a power consumption level that still supports learning to the wireless IoT masses,” says Nordic has received decision making,” says Kjetil Holstad, Nordic’s extended battery operation.” Edge Impulse Co-Founder and CEO, Zach Smart health startup aims to awards from two of Director of Product Management. “Although Prime engineering areas for TinyML include Shelby. “By leveraging the fact that Nordic’s China’s big bike-sharing we have built and run TinyML applications on audio and vibration where it can be used to SoCs employ at least one powerful Arm core automate public health diagnostics companies. Nordic was Nordic’s Bluetooth LE chips in the past, this establish normal operating patterns and processor … and are architecturally designed recognized with a 5 Year Long Term Partnership required a high level of maths and computer rapidly detect anomalies. Example applications for ultra-low power battery operation, this U.S. smart medical and public health IoT and AI for hospitals, food outlets award from Beijing Mobike Technology. programming expertise using professional include anti-poaching (listening for gun shots), partnership is democratizing access to TinyML startup, NousLogic, has adopted Nordic-based and the hospitality sector Elsewhere Nordic received the Best industry and academia software.
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