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In my 2nd blog post in the series on Bluetooth 5, I go over one of the main features of Bluetooth 5: 2x speed. The advertised 2x speed of Bluetooth 5 is great! BUT, what does that even mean? Is it…

Embedded devices are no longer ship and forget products. Once deployed, a connected embedded device is updated and provide with services and not just functionality. This paradigm shift requires adopting…

Do you get sick of scouring the internet for Bluetooth 5 and BLE resources? Do you feel lost or get stuck during the development of your BLE project? Are you excited about Bluetooth 5 and its possibilities…

There are different ways of measuring the current consumed by the nRF9160 SIP. Using a dedicated power analyzer is usually the preferred way, as it is often able to accurately measure and plot current…

Objectives Provide a brief primer to NCS and Zephyr Provide a quick-start guide to adding peripherals to an existing sample project Demonstrate running both foreground and background tasks within Zephyr…

Note: From NCS v1.7.0 onwards, the settings discussed in this guide are included in the board files for the Thingy:91. Therefore, as long as you build for the thingy91_nrf9160_ns or thingy91_nrf52840,…

If you’re thinking about building a network of sensors and you begin to survey the options, you’re likely to encounter a frothing sea of acronyms representing a variety of standards and protocols clamoring…

Background Some time ago I was working on a project that involved communication between Bluetooth mesh and a home automation platform. The goal of this project was to enable control and observability of…

Introduction The question of how to update advertising data dynamically using the BLE Advertising library has been raised many times by our forum-goers, especially after the release of nRF5 SDK v15.2.0…