Cloud Services

The IoT cloud services optimized for ultra-low power Nordic Semiconductor devices

Overview and Benefits

We ship more than a million wireless devices every day that are used in thousands of different products out in the market. Many of these devices need a cloud service to operate. It could be a service that monitors the condition of the device, its location or for firmware updates. With Nordic, you have the option of using our out-of-the-box supported cloud. We offer free evaluation and testing of nRF Cloud with Nordic Semiconductor hardware. Your other option is using another cloud provider and figuring out how to pair your wireless hardware to that cloud yourself. Trust us, the first option is easier.

nRF Cloud is a platform for cloud services optimized for our wireless devices. It offers out-of-the-box support for our devices, whether you have one device or thousands of devices. nRF Cloud is hosted by Nordic with 24/7 availability, maintenance and support. This is a huge advantage to have one provider for both hardware and cloud and one support portal. Operation and cost efficiency are key aspects for customers, which is why we have placed heightened focus on this. We provide an attractive business model, independent of number of devices connected. There are also no up-front costs for the cloud infrastructure.

Go to nRF Cloud

Nordic has out-of-the-box support for nRF Cloud on the nRF9160 DK and Nordic Thingy:91, letting you easily test out asset tracking with GPS positioning and cloud functionality in a matter of minutes! That is cellular IoT made easy. Automatic secure on-boarding and easy integration to a customer's own app or 3rd party apps via the Device API simplify the development cycle.

Multi-image firmware over the air update (FOTA) bundles can easily be pushed to a group of devices or all devices, enabling simple device management.

Wireless Q Live

From Silicon to Cloud services

Watch the recording of our WQ live event hosted on September 9, where Svein-Egil Nielsen (CTO/EVP R&D and Strategy), Ville-Veikko Helppi (Product Manager Cloud Solution) and Chris Hansen (Director R&D, USA) discussed the critical role of Cloud-based asset tracking device management and support.

What is FOTA?

Firmware Over-The-Air (FOTA) updates offer customers a secure and failsafe firmware update to connected IoT devices. Security is increased by keeping the firmware update security separate from the transport protocol used. The update metadata (i.e. manifest) is signed for authenticity and integrity.

In addition to application-level FOTA, you are also able to do multi-level FOTA of the app, middleware, and/or modem firmware.

The process of updating one or multiple devices is straightforward. You first create an update package and then you can use that package to update one device or a group of devices. You can set up different roll-out procedures and policies. Once the update has started, you can easily monitor the update and fetch relevant statistics. We have separated/independent update file servers to keep runtime high.

FOTA illustration