2-2016

RF & Wireless/Impressum
Bluetooth Smart Controllers Transform Home
Appliances into Smart Connected Devices
Nordic announced that OORT,
a Wroclaw, Poland-based
company specializing in connected
devices and the Internet
of Things (IoT), has selected
Nordic’s multiple award-winning
nRF51822 Bluetooth®
Smart System-on-Chip (SoC)
for its OORT Bluetooth Smart
controllers.
OORT’s Bluetooth Smart controllers
enable home appliance
manufacturers to turn any electronic
or electromechanical
device into a wirelessly connected
one, thereby allowing
consumers to directly control
their smart devices via the OORT
app on their iOS or Android
Bluetooth Smart Ready smartphone
or tablet. With the addition
of a Bluetooth Smart Ready and
Wi-Fi compatible OORT SmartHub,
devices can also be operated
when away from the home
from a mobile device or through
OORT’s Cloud platform on a
standard web browser.
The Nordic-powered OORT
Bluetooth Smart controllers
can be embedded into any
existing device for example,
washing machines, ovens, refrigerators,
kettles, and coffee
machines?without any changes
to the original hardware, allowing
manufacturers to turn the
device from a prototype into a
wirelessly connected one within
six to nine months.
From the iOS or Android app on
the smartphone or tablet, users
can locate any OORT connected
device in range of their smartphone
or tablet, name it, and add
it to a group within the app, for
example based on the room in
which the device is located. The
user can then control all of their
wirelessly connected devices,
setting rules, and creating scenarios
around the operation of each
device, for example turning on
kitchen appliances in sequence
as they are required. With the
addition of the OORT SmartHub,
the user can connect to their
home remotely via the internet
and control all of their devices
from their smartphone, tablet,
or via a web browser accessing
a dedicated cloud platform. The
SmartHub communicates with
all the user’s connected devices
via Bluetooth Smart and then
uses WiFi to ‘push’ data to the
Cloud. From the OORT Smart-
Home Cloud platform automatic
actions can be configured between
connected devices, while
the user can also collect information
from the devices and process
them into different reports,
for example detailing how often
each device is used or its power
consumption.
Nordic’s nRF51822 is a powerful
and flexible multiprotocol
SoC ideally suited for Bluetooth
Smart and 2.4 GHz ultra
low-power wireless applications.
The nRF51822 is built around
a 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 CPU
with 256 kB/128 kB flash and
32 kB/16 kB RAM. The embedded
2.4 GHz transceiver is
fully compliant with Bluetooth
v4.2, the latest Bluetooth Smart
specification. In the OORT Bluetooth
Smart controllers, the
nRF51822 SoC provides wireless
connectivity to both iOS and
Android-compatible Bluetooth
Smart Ready devices.
■ Nordic Semiconductor ASA
www.nordicsemi.com
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Low-Power BLE
Frontend Modules
Skyworks offers two low-power
Bluetooth low energy (BLE)
frontend modules (FEMs) for
connected home, wearable and
industrial applications. The
SKY66110-11 and SKY66111-
11 FEMs operate between 2.4
to 2.485 GHz, with power consumption
of only 10 mA in transmit
mode. They are suitable for
products operating from coin
cell batteries including sensors,
beacons, smart watches, thermostats,
smoke and carbon dioxide
detectors, wireless cameras and
audio headphones, hearing aids
and medical pendants.
The FEMs more than double the
range when compared to a standalone
system on chip solution.
The SKY66111-11 FEM features
adjustable output power. Each
device comes in a small footprint
3 x 3 x 0.8 mm, 16-pin multichip
module solution.
■ Skyworks
www.skyworksinc.com
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