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Bluetooth LE is ideal for Internet of Things applications where many low powered sensors or devices feed data through a gateway and out onto the internet. An optimal solution would move away from the use…

Recently, Google introduced some news about Eddystone. At the same time, we released a first implementation of the new specification on GitHub to get developers started. I would like to share some insights…

We in the Nordic Support team have created an online power profiler to estimate the power consumption during a BLE event with different parameters. The profiler gives you information about the different…

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…