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 straightforward for mobile IoT gadget makers so as to add SoftSIM to their nRF91 Sequence-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 have to be plugged-in to mobile merchandise, and later developments resembling non-physical eSIMs nonetheless demand extra supporting {hardware}. The product is downloaded from the Cloud after which executed as software program by the nRF9160 SiP’s embedded ARM cortex-M33 software processor. The SoftSIM is utilizing performance carried out utilizing Arm TrustZone safety surroundings to safe belongings.
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 delivery 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 reducing the dimensions of the tip product.
Furthermore, utilizing SoftSIM enhances the nRF9160 SiP’s already low energy consumption by decreasing idle mode energy consumption virtually utterly because the SIM runs in software program. Usually which means 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 reinforce 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 conventional SIMs, whereas additionally decreasing SIM overhead prices. That makes the collaboration between the 2 corporations good for patrons looking for mobile IoT deployments with higher energy effectivity, international protection, and adaptability.”
“In terms 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 achieved on the community facet. 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 eradicate the friction that bodily SIMs and even eSIMs have pressured on them.
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