Software and Protocols

Field verification of the GNSS

user87864 — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:30:00 GMT

Introduction Intention of this guide is to clarify and describe main aspects relevant for nRF9160 GNSS receiver functionality, build configurations, tool recommendations and how to get started with the field measurements. All the measurements discuss...(read more)

nRF9160 DK: Offloading Bluetooth Low Energy related tasks to nRF52840 SoC

user98633 — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 12:50:00 GMT

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 Bluetooth mesh light sources from the home auto...(read more)

Connecting to AWS cloud services using the nRF9160

user73166 — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 11:22:00 GMT

The purpose of this document is to give a brief introduction to AWS services, and explain how to connect to these services using nRF9160 devices and the MQTT protocol. The tutorial covers the necessary configurations to the nRF9160 firmware to be abl...(read more)

Monitoring nRF9160 data usage with connectivity statistics

user24652 — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:35:00 GMT

This blog posts explains how to use the nRF9160 connectivity statistics to monitor data usage(read more)

Enabling and testing TLS in mqtt_simple

user4528 — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 04:29:00 GMT

The MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol is hugely popular in IoT because it is lightweight and versatile. In this post we will enable Transport Layer Security (TLS) in the mqtt_simple sample from the nRF Connect SDK (NCS) and then connect it to a ...(read more)

Automating nRF91 TLS credential management via serial port AT commands

user4528 — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 07:58:00 GMT

I have spent a bit of time recently experimenting with different TLS credential configurations using nRF91-DKs. Eventually I got to the point where I wanted to do things like swap out the certificates on a DK for different types or connect several DK...(read more)

The four kinds of data you need to consider when developing an IoT product

user24652 — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:36:00 GMT

In this post I will give you an introduction to the four kinds of data you need to consider when developing an IoT product: Device State Device Configuration Past Data Firmware Updates It's these messages that are exchanged betwe...(read more)

How to connect nRF9160 DK to Google Cloud

user92402 — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 07:25:00 GMT

This project was originally made in an outdated version of NCS, but it has now been updated to NCS v1.5.0. The instructions are the same as before, but the code is different. Disclaimer: This is a student project, and thus we can not guarantee ...(read more)