Nordic Thingy:91 Getting Started // Cellular IoT

The Thingy:91 is a pocket-sized, cellular-enabled IoT sensor prototyping platform based on the nRF9160 SiP and nRF52840 SoC. Thanks to those modules, its environmental sensors can communicate over LTE-M, NB-IoT, Bluetooth 5, Thread, ZigBee, and more – plus, it has built-in GPS!

We've talked about this one before, and now we have a ton of helpful documentation on getting started with this remarkable device:

[victortorres]

Hello, good description of the Nordic board, you can include other boards for IoT and IIoT with RF LoRa, ZigBee technologies in your next videos. Regards.

[MAMDAVEM]

I've had the original Nordic Thingy for a year or so. Communication is via bluetooth which I found to be limiting and difficult to interface with my home automation which is largely Wifi and Zigbee based. I may give this new device a try as the device package looks sweet.

[charvakkarpe]

I wonder how many people buy this and never write any code for it. The demo application does enough that a lot of users probably don't care for anything else. In that case, is it really a development platform or just a completed device? I see lots of info on getting started, but no sample code, nothing on how easy or hard it is to write your own application.

[erikburman]

Thanks for the introduction. It all looks very nifty (yes, I said nifty). How does the cell service work? I'm kind of reluctant to sign up with these services because they seem to all require a subscription with automatic renewals tied to my credit card account. I'd rather have a pay as you go service.