Nordic Thingy:91 Cellular IoT prototyping platform KEY FEATURES Battery-operated prototyping platform for the nRF9160 SiP 700-960 MHz + 1710-2200 MHz LTE band support Certifications: FCC (USA), CE (EUR) nRF52840 board controller LTE-M/NB-IoT/GPS, Bluetooth LE and NFC antennas Nano/4FF SIM card slot User-programmable button and RGB LEDs Environmental sensor for temperature, humidity, air quality and air pressure, plus a color and light sensor Low-power accelerometer and high-g accelerometer Buzzer 4 x N-MOS transistors for external DC motors or LEDs Rechargeable Li-Po battery with 1440 mAh capacity nRF9160 SiP Product overview Certified for global operation The Nordic Thingy:91 is a battery-operated prototyping platform for cellular IoT, certified for global operation. It integrates y Verizon the nRF9160 SiP, supporting LTE-M, NB-IoT and GPS, and a y GCF, PTCRB nRF52840 board controller, supporting Bluetooth Low Energy y FCC (USA), CE (EUR), ISED (CAN), ACMA RCM (AUS), NCC and NFC. Source code for firmware, hardware layout, (TWN), IMDA (SGP), MIC (JPN), MSIP (KOR) schematics are all available for free. Multimode LTE-M/NB-IoT modem y 700-2200 MHz LTE band support It is the ideal platform for rapidly developing a prototype for any cellular IoT concept. It is especially suited for any flavor y 23 dBm output power of asset tracking application. Find the position with the GPS y GPS integrated in the nRF9160 SiP, and use the accelerometers to y eDRX and PSM power saving modes do motion analysis and sleep when nothing is happening. y Coverage enhancement modes y Single pin 50 antenna interface An exhaustive set of sensors is included to gather data about y UICC interface the environment, and the movement of the Nordic Thingy:91. Application processor Temperature, humidity, air quality, air pressure, color and light y 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 CPU data can easily be extracted for local or remote analysis. y Arm TrustZone for trusted execution For input, the Nordic Thingy:91 offers a user-programmable y Arm CryptoCell 310 for application layer security button. Visual output is achieved with user-programmable RGB y 1 MB Flash & 256 KB RAM LEDs, while a buzzer can provide audible output. y 4 x SPI/UART/TWI, PDM, I2S, PWM, ADC It has one LTE-M, NB-IoT and GPS antenna connected to the nRF52840 WLCSP nRF9160, supporting a global range of LTE bands. It has two Board controller antennas connected to the nRF52840, a 2.4 GHz antenna for Bluetooth LE and NFC support Bluetooth LE and an NFC antenna. 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4F CPU The Nordic Thingy:91 has a Nano/4FF SIM card slot, supporting 1 MB Flash & 256 KB RAM (e)SIM. It is bundled with an eSIM card from iBasis, preloaded with USB 10 MB, to get connected to the cloud out of the box. A 1440 mAh rechargable Li-Po battery is also part of the package, APPLICATIONS giving a smooth transition into prototype field-testing. Logistics and asset tracking Smart city LTE bands B2, B3, B4, B8, B12, B13, B20 and B28 are enabled out Smart agriculture of the box. Please visit the following for a complete overview of all Predictive maintenance & industrial current and planned certifications: nordicsemi.com/9160cert Wearables & medical Nordic Thingy:91 Product Brief Version 1.4Low-power High-g accelerometer accelerometer PMIC Battery connector RGB LEDs Nano/4FF SIM card slot Power switch Temperature, Current measurement humidity, air quality and air pressure MOSFET transistors Program/debug device Button selection switch Light/color sensor USB connector LTE-M/NB-IoT/ nRF9160 SiP GPS antenna Buzzer Program/debug connector nRF52840 WLCSP 2.4 GHz antenna NFC antenna connector Software and tools nRF Connect SDK The standard application firmware on the Nordic Thingy:91 nRF Connect SDK is our software development kit for cellular IoT. extracts the data from the different sensors and relays it securely It integrates the Zephyr RTOS, and a wide range of examples, up to the nRF Connect for Cloud, where it is displayed in a lucid application protocols, libraries and hardware drivers. Everything interface. The LEDs can be controlled remotely through this same needed to get started with cellular IoT development. interface. The firmware supports concurrent operation with LTE It is publicly hosted on GitHub and offers version control Link Monitor, a tool providing an AT command interface enabling management with Git. It supports the SEGGER Embedded Studio link and network testing. IDE free of charge. The firmware has been developed using the nRF Connect SDK. It is open source, and can be leveraged and modified to suit your RELATED PRODUCTS specific needs. The firmware can be updated and debugged by using an external programmer/debugger, for example the one on nRF9160 DK Development kit for the nRF9160 SiP the nRF9160 DK. nRF9160 SiP LTE-M/NB-IoT/GPS SiP nRF52840 Bluetooth 5/Bluetooth mesh/802.15.4/Thread/ nRF9160 SiP Zigbee/ANT/2.4 GHz SoC The nRF9160 is a low power SiP integrating a dedicated nRF Connect SDK Cellular IoT software development kit application processor and a multimode LTE-M and NB-IoT modem. It is the most compact cellular IoT (cIoT) solution on the nRF Connect Cloud solution for LTE-M and NB-IoT market, measuring just 10x16x1 mm. for Cloud LTE Link Monitor Development tool providing an AT command user The application processor includes a 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 interface CPU with 1 MB of flash and 256 KB of RAM dedicated for the Programmer Programming user interface application. It has Arm TrustZone for trusted execution and Arm CryptoCell for application layer security. It has a wide range of interfaces to communicate with sensors and actuators. ORDER INFORMATION The multimode modem supports the eDRX and PSM power saving nRF6943 Nordic Thingy:91, cellular IoT prototyping platform modes and the coverage enhancement features of LTE-M and NB-IoT, and has GPS integrated. The global RF front end supports bands from 700 MHz to 2.2 GHz, has 23 dBm output power and offers a single pin 50 antenna interface. WORLD WIDE OFFICE LOCATIONS TRONDHEIM, NORWAY HEAD OFFICE Headquarters: OULU, FINLAND OSLO, NORWAY Trondheim, Norway STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN TAMPERE, FINLAND Tel: +47 72 89 89 00 ESPOO, FINLAND LUND, SWEDEN TURKU, FINLAND PORTLAND, USA UNITED KINGDOM BEIJING, CHINA SEOUL, KOREA KRAKOW, POLAND SAN JOSE, USA DSSELDORF, GERMANY YOKOHAMA, JAPAN SHENZHEN, For more information CHINA SHANGHAI, CHINA Visit nordicsemi.com for the complete TAIPEI, TAIWAN product specification about this and any HYDERABAD, INDIA HONG KONG, CHINA MANILA, other wireless ULP products. PHILIPPINES About Nordic Semiconductor Nordic Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in ULP short-range wireless communication. Nordic is a public company listed on the Norwegian stock exchange. Nordic Thingy:91 Product Brief Version 1.4