Rugged, flexible, updatable
The Nordic Thingy:91 is an easy-to-use cellular IoT prototyping platform, designed to help building prototypes and demos, without the need to build hardware or even write firmware.
The Nordic Thingy:52 is an easy-to-use prototyping platform, designed to help building prototypes and demos, without the need to build hardware or even write firmware.
Demonstrate the possibilities within minutes
The Nordic Thingies are a family of rapid prototyping platforms for IoT applications and PoC. They offer developers, engineers and inventors the ability to put concepts and ideas for wireless products into practice in a very fast time frame.
Proof of Concept (PoC) is an important step in the product development lifecycle. PoCs are where ideas start to look like products and where products start to take form.
The Nordic Thingy philosophy is to put best-in-class Nordic flagship SoCs at the heart of the Thingy and compliment these SoCs with multiple sensors, actuators and interfaces, giving a wealth of exciting possibilities out-of-the box.
They support Over the Air Device Firmware Updates (DFU) meaning both application and communication stack firmware can be upgraded via a mobile device, gateway or the cellular network.
The Thingies are rugged and built to last, they come in a tough polypropylene case and have a removable splash-proof rubber hood. They run from LiPo batteries and dependent on your application can run for months and even years on a single charge. A Thingy even has mounting holes on the case making it ideal for long term in-situ tests indoors and outdoors.
feature comparison
| Nordic Thingy:52 |
Nordic Thingy:91 |
|---|---|
| Wireless communication Bluetooth LE, 802.15.4 |
Wireless communication - cellular LTE-M, NB-IoT |
| Wireless communication short-range Bluetooth LE, 802.15.4, NF |
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| Positioning Assisted GPS |
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| Output power +4 dBm |
Output power +23 dBm |
| Antennas 2.4 GHz, NFC |
Antennas LTE: 700 MHz - 2.2 GHz, 2.4 GHz, GPS, NFC |
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Application processor Arm Cortex-M4F |
Application processor Arm Cortex-M33 |
| Memory 500kB flash + 128kB RAM |
Memory 1MB flash + 256kB RAM |
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Security AES, CCM, ECB |
Security Arm TrustZone, Arm CryptoCell, AES, CCM, ECB |
| External interfacing 4 x Digital/Analog/UART Grove connectors |
External interfacing 4 x MOSFET outputs |
| Peripherals Timers, NFC, USB, PWM, Digital microphone input, ADC, RTC, Comparators |
Peripherals Timers, NFC, USB, PWM, ADC, RTC, Comparators |
| Interfaces SPI, I2C, I2S, UART |
Interfaces SPI, I2C, I2S, UART |
| Sensors Temperature, Air quality, Barometric pressure, Humidity, low power accelerometer, High-G impact accelerometer, Color sensor |
Sensors Temperature, Air quality, Barometric pressure, Humidity, low power accelerometer, High-G impact accelerometer, Color sensor |
| Battery LiPo |
Battery LiPo |
For short-range projects
The Nordic Thingy:52 is a prototyping platform for short range projects based around the nRF52832 SoC.
It enables PoCs that use Bluetooth low energy, Bluetooth mesh and NFC. Thingy:52 has a broad selection of sensors for building your PoC.
It comes with a demo application and an accompanying phone app and gateway app and can be connected to nordic’s cloud system for test and evaluation, nRF Connect for Cloud.
Prototyping platform for cellular IoT
The Nordic Thingy:91 is a prototyping platform for cellular IoT projects based around the nRF9160 SiP.
It also features an nRF52840 SoC for short range technologies when building hybrid PoCs.
Cellular support is LTE-M, NB-IoT with assisted GPS.
Short range support exists for Bluetooth low energy, Bluetooth mesh, 802.15.4-based protocols and NFC.
Thingy:91 has a broad selection of sensors for building your PoC. Thingy:91 connects to Nordic’s cloud system for test and evaluation, nRF Connect for Cloud.
For Thingy development
