Empowering Connectivity: Guide to End-to-End Cellular IoT Solutions

Streamline design and implementation, reduce complexities and shorten the time to market

Hardware

nRF9160 SiP, nRF9161 SiP & nRF9151 SiP have these features

  • Fully integrated SiP for cellular IoT
  • GNSS
  • Multimode LTE-M/NB-IoT 3GPP rel 13 modem
  • Dedicated programmable application processor & memory
  • 700-2200MHz LTE band support
  • 64MHz Arm® Cortex®-M33
  • 1MB flash + 256KB RAM
  • Arm TrustZone + Arm CryptoCell
  • Certified for global operation

nRF9161 SiP & nRF9151 SiP also features

  • DECT NR+ support
  • 1.9GHz NR+ band support

nRF9151 SiP also features

  • 20% footprint reduction
  • Power Class 5 20dBm & Power Class 3 23dBm

Development Tools

  • nRF9160 Development Kit
  • nRF9161 Development Kit
  • nRF Connect SDK
  • nRF Connect for VS Code IDE
  • DevAcademy interactive learning platform

Software Stack

LTE-M/NB-IoT 3GPP release 14 modem firmware

  • Optimized for ultra-low power consumption with unique Nordic features
  • Software SIM support
  • Power Saving Mode (PSM) for roaming devices
  • Connection pre-evaluation
  • Improved NB-IoT connection management

nRF Connect SDK

  • Unified code base for Nordic hardware
  • Includes Zephyr RTOS, extensive
  • functionality and reference samples/applications
  • Networking stacks (TCP/IP, LwM2M, CoAP, MQTT, HTTP)
  • Bootloader, logging, drivers, and much more

Evaluation

nRF Connect

  • Evaluate power consumption, modem performance & cloud services (Via AT commands or precompiled samples)
  • Online power profiler tool to estimate power consumption
  • Cellular monitor to analyze modem traces, evaluate communication & network testing

Tech Support

  • {amp;Devzone expert support forum

Online learning platform

  • DevAcademy - academy.nordicsemi.com

IoT Services

nRF Cloud

  • Device management
  • Protocol agnostic
  • Secure provisioning
  • Location services
  • Secure identity
  • FOTA

Device-to-Cloud and Cloud-to-Cloud support

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