Nordic Semiconductor, a global contributor in low-power wireless connectivity solutions, has announced a faster path to satellite and cellular IoT. Embedded modem innovator LooUQ‘s MTC2-N9151 has earned Skylo Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) certification, building on Nordic’s own Skylo-certified nRF9151 to reduce time-to-market for IoT product developers.
Water technology company Remsight is already deploying the compact, drop-in embedded modem from LooUQ to monitor water infrastructure across the American West, reaching the field much faster and at lower cost than it would have building their own solution from scratch.
One certification, inherited down the stack
Nordic’s smallest and lowest-power cellular IoT module, the nRF9151, lets IoT devices stay connected wherever they are deployed, from dense city grids to terrain with no cellular coverage. It integrates an open application MCU, an LTE-M/NB-IoT or DECT NR+ modem, NB-NTN satellite support, and security features in a single package, so developers no longer need to add proprietary satellite hardware that costs time and money to develop. Skylo operates as a standard 3GPP NB-NTN network accessible through Mobile Network Operator (MNO) partnerships, letting certified devices roam automatically between terrestrial and satellite coverage. The nRF9151 earned Skylo certification earlier this year, after a firmware release added full NTN satellite support to its mature LTE-M/NB-IoT solution, marking Nordic’s first step into direct-to-satellite communication from a standard cellular module.
Read more: iotglobalnetwork.com
