SHO Demos

June 2019

Short Range Radio

Confidential
Demos

Demo Station 1: MQTT

Demo Station 2: BLE Mesh
Demo Station 3: Smallest Gateway
Demo Station 4: BLE Mesh with Wi-Fi Gateway

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MQTT-SN Demo

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What is MQTT?
Publish/subscribe protocol

MQTT is the most popular protocol in use for IoT today

Subscriber
message MQTT
broker

Publisher

Virtual channel Subscriber

Topic

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MQTT vs MQTT-SN

MQTT = Message Queuing Telemetry Transport

MQTT-SN = Message Queuing Telemetry Transport for Sensor Networks

MQTT MQTT-SN
Communication TCP/IP Non-IP or UDP
MQTT-SN
Max message size MB bytes Designed with
constrained devices
Battery operated Yes in mind, e.g. sensor
devices.
Sleeping clients Yes

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 MQTT-SN demo with secure cloud connection
Active and sleeping client with MQTT-SN using JavaScript

IBM Cloud

Both clients subscribe to the

same topic (MQTT-SN) which
control LEDs.
Cloud application
Active client

Connection interval for

MQTT sleeping client.
NINA-B3 TLS

WiFi Toggle both LEDs on the

u-connectScript with client application in clients. The active client will
JavaScript (configured as active) react immediately, sleeping
Gateway
Sleeping client
Bluetooth Low energy Odin-W2
client will react when it
connects.

Buffers latest message for

topic, sent to sleeping client
when it connects.

NINA-B3

u-connectXpress
(pre-configured using AT commands)
u-connectScript with client application in
JavaScript (configured as sleeping)

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BLE Mesh Demo

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Bluetooth Mesh
Experimental release in Q2 2019, commercial release in Q4 2019

• Successful Bluetooth Mesh technology project in Q4 2018

– Q1 2019
• AT and scripting API provided for u-connect.
• Sensors and Actuator support with less than 200 lines of script code.
• Server functionality by parsing ONE AT event
• BT SIG Models enabled by one simple AT command

• An experimental NINA-B3 release for both

u-connectXpress and u-connectScript will be available in
Q2 2019 to enable customer evaluation.

• Commercial release planned for Q4 2019

• Incorporating customer feedback

• A second technology project planned, focusing on system

performance, device management, provisioning and FOTA.
Next Bluetooth Mesh release (directed forwarding)

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 Bluetooth Mesh interoperability demo
Integrating commercially available light bulb with u-connect and cloud

IBM Cloud

Bluetooth Mesh
Cloud application

Sylvania Smart+ light bulb

commercially available

MQTT
NINA-B3 used as a mesh TLS
gateway, translating
commands from the cloud to
Cypress mesh publish messages WiFi Toggle LED on TREON node

MQTT-SN over SPS Gateway

Odin-W2

NINA-B3
u-connectScript with mesh gateway
application in JavaScript
Toggle light bulb

u-connectXpress
NINA-B1 inside (pre-configured using AT commands)
Nordic

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Gateway Demo
Smallest Gateway

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Demo setup

Wifi Sensor
Tablet

Wifi/BLE Temp
Gateway u-connectXpress
(pre-configured using AT commands)

BLE Sensor
u-connectXpress
(pre-configured using AT commands) Temp

Accelerometer

u-connectScript
Bluetooth low energy with client application in JavaScript Light
Wi-Fi / IP
BLE Mesh with Wi-
Fi Gateway Demo
BLE Mesh with Wi-Fi Gateway

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Demo setup
BLE Mesh WiFi Cloud

Provision WiFi
Provision mesh
with router
nodes via nRF
credential
mesh app.

Node
configuration is
also done using
nRF mesh app.
MQTT Broker
+
IoT Dashboard

S
S Monitor light status and control
light individually or by group
UART
C WiFi
S MQTT

S
S

S S
S

EVK-NINA-B11x EVK-NINA-W10x
Thank you
for your attention

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