Smart agriculture

No company in the world offers a wider range of wireless IoT connectivity technologies for smart agriculture and farming than Nordic. Whether you want to monitor crops, soil, weather, irrigation, or locate and monitor animals and farming equipment, Nordic has the complete low power wireless connectivity solution for your needs.

Nordic wireless connectivity solutions for smart agriculture

Nordic's low power wireless protocols relevant to smart agriculture include low power Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, Thread, Zigbee, cellular IoT (both LTE-M and NB-IoT), and DECT NR+. Our integrated wireless SoCs and SiPs combined with our nRF Cloud will provide you with all the hardware building blocks you need to build the optimal smart agriculture solution.

Multiple wireless options for multiple farming environments

Because every agriculture use case differs, there is no 'one size fits all' option. You need a partner who can supply and support you with a complete solution. Farms vary drastically in size and are often located very remotely. This requires both short- and long-range wireless connectivity options, power-saving features, optimization for lower or higher data rates, full flexibility in network topology options from point-to-point and star-to-mesh, and the ability to build a network of any size.

Using the IoT to transform and optimize farming by doing 10x more with 10x less is the only way the world will feed itself sustainably in the years ahead and without destroying the planet. And this is why Nordic is particularly passionate about supporting this fast-evolving sector.

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Highlighted applications

Smart crop monitoring	Smart building and equipment management	Drone farming
Weather, climate, and soil monitoring	Smart livestock monitoring	Autonomous Farm Machinery
Smart irrigation	Lighting for indoor farming	Gateways and wireless bridges

Wireless protocols for smart agriculture

Wi-Fi

Nordic Semiconductor is a leading provider of low-power wireless communication solutions, utilizing decades of ultra-low-power wireless expertise to maximize Wi-Fi’s low-power potential in various applications including home automation, smart lighting, and other IoT devices.

Bluetooth Low Energy

Want to add Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) connectivity to your product? We offer high-quality BLE SoCs, Bluetooth Low Energy chips, and BT modules with ultra-low power consumption and protocol stacks, ensuring excellent interoperability.

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Thread

We offer the complete solution for building Thread and Matter products; feature-rich SoCs, a qualified mesh stack with samples, and a topology monitor.

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Matter

Matter provides a shared foundation on which to build an application. The goal is to have interoperability between devices and ecosystems.

Zigbee

Are you looking to develop a Zigbee product? Advanced multiprotocol SoCs, a qualified mesh stack with samples, certified hardware, and software.

Cellular IoT

Want to add cellular connectivity to your product? We offer the most compact and low power solutions in the market for cellular IoT.

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DECT NR+

DECT NR+ (NR+) is a non-cellular radio standard recently included as part of the 5G standards by the ITU. Thus, making it the world’s first non-cellular technology included in 5G.

Recommended hardware

nRF7002 Wi-Fi Companion IC

nRF7002 - Low-power, advanced security, seamless coexistence

2.4GHz and 5GHz Dual-band

Low-power and Secure Wi-Fi for the IoT

Ideal coexistence with Bluetooth LE

Supported in nRF Connect SDK

Wi-Fi 6 Station (STA)

Complies with 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax

1 Spatial Stream (SS)

20 MHz channel bandwidth

64 QAM (MCS7), 86 Mbps PHY throughput

OFDMA (Downlink and Uplink)

BSS Coloring

TWT

SPI / QSPI

Co-existence interfaces

nRF7001 Wi-Fi Companion IC

nRF7001 - Low-power, advanced security, seamless coexistence

2.4 GHz single-band

Low-power and Secure Wi-Fi for the IoT

Ideal coexistence with Bluetooth LE

Supported in nRF Connect SDK

Wi-Fi 6 Station (STA)

Complies with 802.11b/g/n/ax

1 Spatial Stream (SS)

20 MHz channel bandwidth

64 QAM (MCS7), 86 Mbps PHY throughput

OFDMA (Downlink and Uplink)

BSS Coloring

TWT

SPI / QSPI

Co-existence interfaces

nRF7000 Wi-Fi Companion IC

nRF7000 - SSID-based Wi-Fi locationing

Ideal for SSID-based Wi-Fi locationing

2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Dual-band

Coexistence with Bluetooth LE

Supported in nRF Connect SDK

BSS Coloring

SPI / QSPI

Co-existence interfaces

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Recommended software

nRF Connect SDK

nRF Connect SDK is a common software development kit for Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, cellular IoT, Bluetooth mesh, Thread, Zigbee and Matter. It supports all our nRF52, nRF53, nRF70 and nRF91 Series wireless devices.