Nordic Semiconductor Thingy:91 X™ Prototyping Platform

The Nordic Thingy:91 X facilitates location tracking using cellular (MCELL and SCELL), Wi-Fi^®, or GNSS combined with nRF Cloud Location Services. A comprehensive set of sensors is included to gather data about the environment and movement of the device. Temperature, humidity, air quality, air pressure, magnetic field, acceleration, and movement can easily be pulled for local or remote analysis. Additional functionality can be easily added through the debug board connector or the expansion board connector, which is compatible with Qwiic, STEMMA QT, and Grove.

For user input, Nordic Thingy:91 X presents two user-programmable buttons. Visual output is accomplished with user-programmable RGB LEDs. USB connectivity is done through nRF5340 System-on-Chip (SoC), which functions as the board controller and supports BLUETOOTH^® Low Energy (LE) for selected use cases. The nRF7002 Wi-Fi companion IC provides Wi-Fi locating. The IC has two antennas connected to the nRF9151 SiP: one for LTE-M, NB-IoT, and NR+, supporting a global range of LTE bands, and one for GNSS. One dual-band 2.4GHz/5GHz antenna is shared between the nRF5340 and nRF7002.

The Nordic Thingy:91 X has a Nano/4FF SIM card slot, supporting (e)SIM. The device is bundled with Onomondo and Wireless Logic SIM cards and preloaded with data to connect to nRF Cloud out of the box. The package also includes a 1350mAh rechargeable Li-Po battery, facilitating the transition into prototype field testing. The power supply is managed by the nPM6001 and nPM1300 PMICs, with the latter also offering battery charging and accurate fuel gauging functionality. LTE bands B1-B5, B8, B12-B13, B17-B20, B25-B26, B28, B65-B66 and B85 are enabled out of the box.