Retail

Nordic can help you build a smart retail solution that retailers and consumers will love

Nordic Semiconductor is perfectly positioned to help you build a smart retail solution that will enhance the efficiency of any retail operation.

Smart retail is a major industry focus for Nordic, and we offer every wireless IoT connectivity technology—from chip to sensor to gateway to Cloud—that your retail platform could ever need. This includes Bluetooth LE, low-power Wi-Fi, cellular IoT, and Thread, in any combination.

To develop your smart retail solution, you will only need to use one simple Nordic development tool: Nordic's nRF Connect SDK.

Making the whole retail supply chain smarter

Nordic Semiconductor’s short–, medium– and long-range wireless technologies cover the entire retail value chain from warehouse to delivery to shop floor.

On the shop floor, for example, short-range Bluetooth is ideal for Electronic Shelf Labelling (ESL) that enables product pricing to be dynamically updated in response to consumer-demand using the latest Bluetooth ESL standard from the Bluetooth SIG. 

By combining short—and long–range wireless technologies, it is now commercially and economically viable to continuously monitor cold chain goods shipping and storage and detect if a high-value package has been dropped or mishandled at any stage between leaving a warehouse and reaching the end customer.

Highlighted applications

 

Sensor networks

      

Gold Chain

      

 

Gateways

 

Bar code scanners

 
Tracking   Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL)  

Wireless protocols for Retail

Cellular IoT

Want to add cellular connectivity to your product? We offer the most compact and low power solutions in the market for cellular IoT.

Wi-Fi

Nordic Semiconductor is a leading provider of low-power wireless communication solutions, utilizing decades of ultra-low-power wireless expertise to maximize Wi-Fi’s low-power potential in various applications including home automation, smart lighting, and other IoT devices.

Bluetooth Low Energy

Want to add Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) connectivity to your product? We offer high-quality BLE SoCs, Bluetooth Low Energy chips, and BT modules with ultra-low power consumption and protocol stacks, ensuring excellent interoperability.

Bluetooth Direction Finding

Want to build a product based on Bluetooth Direction Finding? We offer high quality SoCs capable of all angle-of-arrival (AoA) and angle-of-departure (AoD) roles in Bluetooth Direction Finding.

Thread

We offer the complete solution for building Thread and Matter products; feature-rich SoCs, a qualified mesh stack with samples, and a topology monitor.

2.4 GHz proprietary

2.4 GHz flexibity and simplicity

Range extenders

The range and link robustness of Nordic nRF52 and nRF53 Series SoCs fulfill the requirements of most applications and use-cases, but sometimes adding a range extender/RF front end module (FEM) is the correct choice.

Recommended hardware

Recommended software

nRF Connect SDK

nRF Connect SDK is a common software development kit for Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, cellular IoT, Bluetooth mesh, Thread, Zigbee and Matter. It supports all our nRF52, nRF53, nRF70 and nRF91 Series wireless devices.