Nordic Semiconductor and Copenhagen-based Onomondo announce a collaboration that brings Onomondo’s ‘SoftSIM’ to mobile IoT end-products primarily based on Nordic’s nRF9160 low energy SiP. The collaboration between Nordic and Onomondo makes it simple for mobile IoT machine makers so as to add SoftSIM to their nRF91 Collection-based designs, simplifying growth, decreasing prices and shortening time-to-market.
As a result of mobile IoT leverages mature and widespread mobile infrastructure, community entry requires every end-device to hold a Subscriber Identification Module (SIM). Conventional SIMs are bodily gadgets that must be plugged-in to mobile merchandise, and later developments equivalent to non-physical eSIMs nonetheless demand further supporting {hardware}. The product is downloaded from the Cloud after which executed as software program by the nRF9160 SiP’s embedded ARM cortex-M33 utility processor. The SoftSIM is utilizing performance applied utilizing Arm TrustZone safety surroundings to safe property.
Out-of-the-box mobile IoT connectivity
By combining Onomondo’s SoftSIM with Nordic’s low energy nRF9160 SiP with built-in LTE-M/NB-IoT modem and GNSS, customers have an ‘out-of-the-box’ connectivity resolution that eliminates not solely the necessity for the manufacture and transport of bodily SIM playing cards but in addition their related overheads. As well as, SoftSIM eliminates the necessity for a bodily SIM socket on the end-device design, decreasing the bill-of-materials (BoM) and part prices, simplifying design, and lowering the scale of the top product.
Furthermore, utilizing SoftSIM enhances the nRF9160 SiP’s already low energy consumption by reducing idle mode energy consumption nearly utterly for the reason that SIM runs in software program. Typically meaning common financial savings of roughly 40µA in comparison with utilizing a bodily SIM or eSIM. Decrease energy consumption permits prolonged battery life or the usage of smaller cells.
Enhancing battery life
“Nordic’s nRF9160 is probably the most energy optimised and extremely built-in mobile IoT SiP in the marketplace, however we repeatedly search to boost battery life additional,” says Kristian Saether, product director mobile IoT, Nordic Semiconductor. “Now Onomondo’s SoftSIM brings new advantages for customers by consuming far much less energy than a standard SIMs, whereas additionally decreasing SIM overhead prices. That makes the collaboration between the 2 corporations good for purchasers searching for mobile IoT deployments with higher energy effectivity, international protection, and suppleness.”
“In the case of decreasing friction and driving effectivity in IoT, nice progress has been made in making parts and {hardware} extra environment friendly and simpler to deploy, however little work has been carried out on the community aspect. That’s till SoftSIM got here alongside,” says Michael Karlsen, co-founder and CEO, Onomondo. “This collaboration with Nordic Semiconductor implies that customers can make use of the nRF9160 and SoftSIM to get rid of the friction that bodily SIMs and even eSIMs have compelled on them.
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