Nordic Semiconductor announced that Particle, the most widely used Internet of Things (IoT) platform, has selected Nordic’s nRF52840 advanced Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE)/ANT/802.15.4/ 2,4 GHz proprietary system-on-chip (SoC) for its ‘Particle Mesh’ suite, an end-to-end mesh networking development platform.
The Particle Mesh platform enables developers to quickly construct mesh networks comprising IEEE 802.15.4 nodes running OpenThread, an open-source version of Thread. Thread is a low-power wireless connectivity specification which includes robust security, reliability, scalability and support for developer-friendly IP-based (IPv6 with 6LoWPAN) mesh networking.
Particle Mesh includes three IoT gateway variants, the ‘Argon’ (supporting Wi-Fi/ Mesh/Bluetooth LE), the ‘Boron’ (LTE M1 and NB1/Mesh/Bluetooth LE), and the ‘Xenon’ (Mesh/Bluetooth LE), which enable low-power wireless sensor mesh networks to connect to the Internet.
The gateways use the nRF52840’s Thread capability to communicate with other Thread devices on the mesh network while the Bluetooth LE connectivity allows developers to use Bluetooth 4.0 (and later) smartphones and tablets for mesh setup, deployment and diagnostics in the field.
The Particle Mesh development kits are pre-configured to fully integrate with Particle’s ‘Device Cloud’, a set of development tools and cloud infrastructure, to build, connect and manage mesh networks.
“We selected Thread over other mesh networking solutions because of its maturity in market, ability to scale to large networks, use of open standards, and the availability of open source implementations,” said William Hart, general manager of prototyping at Particle. “Bluetooth LE is also a critical component of Particle Mesh and bidirectional communication between a smartphone and the Particle Mesh device to simplify device setup, deployment and diagnostics. Because we needed both Thread and Bluetooth LE support, Nordic’s nRF52840 SoC was an ideal choice for our new Particle Mesh hardware solutions.”
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