Hardware manufacturer
Nordic Semiconductor
Specialist in low-power wireless connectivity
Trondheim, NO
Website ↗Nordic Semiconductor dominates the low-power connectivity segment: its nRF chips are in countless wearables, peripherals and smart-home devices. The nRF52840nTermnRF52840The nRF52840 is a Nordic Semiconductor SoC with a Cortex-M4F and ultra-low-power multiprotocol radio (BLE 5 and IEEE 802.15.4), a basis for many Matter/Thread devices.View profile is one of the most popular BLEBTermBluetooth Low Energy (BLE)Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is the low-power variant of Bluetooth, for sending small amounts of data intermittently with minimal battery. It dominates wearables and proximity. Maintained by the Bluetooth SIG.View profile SoCs and supports Thread and Matter.
It also provides a mature SDK, Zigbee
ProtocolZigbeeVeteran 2.4 GHz mesh — backbone of many smart home hubsView profile support and LTE-MLProtocolLTE-MCellular IoT with mobility and voiceView profile/NB-IoT
ProtocolNB-IoT3GPP-standardized cellular LPWAN — carrier coverageView profile cellular modules (nRF91 series), covering both short-range and cellular LPWANLTermLPWANLPWAN (Low-Power Wide-Area Network) is a category of long-range, low-power wireless networks for IoT. It includes LoRaWAN, NB-IoT and LTE-M.View profile.
