Leading Dutch design house Sodaq has joined Nordic Semiconductor’s partner programme to all to boost its tracking and sensing capabilities.
Sdaq develops low power, solar-powered or smart label IoT hardware for large-scale, enterprise-sized deployments, largely based on Nordic’s nRF91 Series cellular IoT system in package (SiP).
Sodaq designs and creates unique hardware for large corporate IoT departments and manufactures products for companies who want to deploy tracking and sensing devices in their logistics chain. In addition to off-the-shelf products, the company provides custom hardware, embedded software, RF, antenna, and security design as a service as well as rapid prototyping, pre-production testing and validation. It can also provide pilot production, transfer to production, turnkey contract manufacturing, product cycle management, industrial design (enclosure/casing), device-to-Cloud integration, and Cloud backend/frontend development.
This enables a shorter time-to-market for IoT products, the ability to develop autonomous devices, testing of different cellular networks, technologies and operators globally, and high-end design and manufacturing, says Jan Willem Smeenk, Founder & Senior Solution Architect at Sodaq.
“We deliver tens of thousands and soon hundreds of thousands of trackers to global corporations, with our product line largely based on Nordic’s nRF91 Series cellular IoT solutions,” he said.
The addition of Sodaq to the 40 companies in the Nordic Partner Programme (NPP) will provide access to the portfolio of hardware, software, RF and antenna designs—which are compatible with Nordic’s wireless IoT solutions including the nRF9160 cellular IoT SiP—as well as engineering expertise to help OEMs optimize the RF and antenna performance for their wireless design.
“Regardless of development experience, it can be challenging to implement tracking solutions that operate worldwide and are energy efficient. This requires an enormous amount of dedication and years of testing,” says Patrick Noordhoek, Regional Sales Director – The Netherlands, Nordic Semiconductor.
“With Sodaq now joining the Nordic Partner Program, our customers will benefit not only from the company’s custom design services, but also its turnkey solutions in combination with Nordic products from programming, testing, and certifications, to the integration of third party software and protocols, Cloud and device management, and cellular connectivity.”
Source: https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/sodaq-joins-nordic-design-programme-for-iot-tracker-boost/