Prototyping platform for wireless IoT applications now available

Mouser Electronics, Inc. now ships the new Thingy:91 X Prototyping Platform from Nordic Semiconductor. The solution is an easy-to-use, battery-operated prototyping platform for cellular IoT PoC demos and initial cellular IoT device development for logistics, asset tracking, smart city, predictive maintenance, industrial and wearable applications.

The platform is developed to address the needs of emerging low-power cellular IoT applications utilising Nordic's nRF9151 cellular IoT SiP with an integrated Arm Cortex-M33 CPU and Arm TrustZone and CryptoCell security technology, which supports LTE-M, NB-IoT, GNSS, and NR+ certified for global operation. The platform comes preloaded with an asset-tracking application and a comprehensive set of sensors that monitor environmental conditions and movement, improving its utility in various IoT applications. It includes multiple digital and analog interfaces and peripherals for many design possibilities, including expansion options via a debug board connector and an expansion board connector compatible with Qwiic, STEMMA QT, and Grove systems.

The Thingy:91 X Prototyping Platform is supplied with all necessary modem firmware, RTOS, application software examples, and hardware reference designs to implement a full cellular IoT design. It features two user-programmable buttons for user input, with user-programmable RGB LEDs for output, along with a Nano/4FF SIM card slot, supporting (e)SIM, and bundled Onomondo and Wireless Logic SIM cards preloaded with data to connect to nRF Cloud out-of-the-box. The package also incorporates a 1350mAh rechargeable Li-Po battery to facilitate prototype field testing.