Nordic Semiconductor demonstrates IPv6 over Bluetooth Smart

The company also confirmed details of exhibits by partner companies that it will be hosting on its booth (6H20), in the Norwegian Pavilion (hosted by Innovation Norway in Hall 6) at MWC.

Nordic’s IPv6 over Bluetooth Smart protocol stack for its nRF51 Series systems-on-chip (SoCs) enables small, low cost, ultra-low power Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The nRF51 IoT SDK is a complete IPv6-ready Internet protocol suite for the nRF51 Series Bluetooth Smart SoCs. The SDK enables native and interoperable IP-based connectivity between a Bluetooth Smart “thing” and a cloud service. It also enables Bluetooth Smart to be used in large, distributed, cloud-connected heterogeneous networks such as home, industrial, and enterprise automation.

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Nordic’s booth will also host Taiyo Yuden’s new Nordic nRF51822 SoC-based EYSFJNXX Bluetooth Smart module. The module integrates the SoC, antenna, and 32-MHz crystal, and is qualified to the Bluetooth specification. It is targeted at applications such as cycle computers, sports and fitness sensors, remote controls, and toys.

Companies from North America, Europe, and Asia which are using Nordic’s nRF51 Series Bluetooth Smart and ANT+ solutions in a number of innovative applications, will demonstrate and talk about their products on the booth:

• ASSA ABLOY will be demonstrating the company’s award-winning HID Mobile Acces solution for opening doors and gates with smartphones and other smart devices. The solution supports both iOS and Android devices and provides secure cloud-based management of identity data through the HID Secure Identity Services platform and mobile app.
• Chess Wise will be exhibiting MyriaWise, an award-winning wireless IoT network protocol for applications such as light control, building automation, track and trace, and monitoring. MyriaWise nodes, which are based on Nordic Bluetooth Smart technology, organize themselves and becomes a fully meshed network. The behavior of the network can be changed without updating individual nodes.
• Dayton will be exhibiting its range of Bluetooth Smart wireless products and sensors including a heart rate monitor (HRM) with new monitoring features including output power, daily activity, ECG, swimming and fitness training, and the Ana-digit smart watch platform featuring a Bluetooth Smart and ANT+ dual wireless system.
• Estimote will be presenting its hardware and software solutions using Bluetooth Smart technology. The company calls it an operating system for the physical world. Beacons allow apps to locate the user in physical space. A group of beacons can turn any location into a kind of hyper-local GPS—a responsive, digital platform that overlays the IRL world.
• FIBARO will be showcasing its wireless smart home system. FIBARO can control audio/video devices, household appliances, lighting, temperature, rolling shutters, gates, alarms, monitoring systems, and many more devices by computer or mobile device.
• TobyRich will be exhibiting its SmartPlane and PowerUp 3.0, a smartphone-controlled (paper) airplane, which raised over $1.2 million on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Also on show at the Nordic booth will be TobyRich’s latest product, the SmartBoat, which the company says is the first smartphone controlled boat in the world.

“Mobile World Congress is the leading event of its kind and is sure to host some amazing new technology for the mobile product sector. And Nordic will be among the companies that exhibit some of this technology with the first major European demonstration of its IPv6 over Bluetooth Smart stack and the nRF51 IoT SDK,” said Geir Langeland, Nordic Semiconductor’s director of sales and marketing. “This technology allows Bluetooth Smart devices to communicate using Internet protocol, the ‘language of the Internet,’ which is essential for Bluetooth Smart to become a foundation technology of the IoT.

“It’s also not every day that show attendees can meet the best chess player in history and watch him take on ten keen amateurs. Nordic is very proud of its association with Magnus Carlsen, a fellow Norwegian who shares our values of competitiveness, creativity, and reliability.”

In addition to the demonstrations at MWC, Nordic will demonstrate IPv6 over Bluetooth Smart at the MobileFocus Global event at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya in Barcelona, on March 1, from 7 to 10 p.m.

In 2014, more than 85,000 attendees from over 200 countries came to see 1,800 companies showcase their products and services at Fira Gran Via and Fira Montjuïc. This year, the organizers expect the event to be even larger.

Visit Nordic Semiconductor for more about the nRF51 Series; about Bluetooth low energy, Bluetooth Smart, and Bluetooth Smart Ready; and about ANT/ANT+.