Smart Remotes 

Let Nordic help you build a Bluetooth smart remote control with ultra-long battery life

Nordic’s multi-protocol Bluetooth LE and proprietary 2.4GHz SoCs' ultra-low power consumption makes them ideal for building RF smart remotes for any application. Using RF wireless over traditional infrared (IR) also eliminates line-of-sight and sunlight interference issues that can make IR remotes frustrating to use at times.

As consumer TVs and set-top boxes (STBs) and video-on-demand streamers become more advanced, so does the value of a higher-quality, smart remote. This is especially true for more premium consumer appliances where a very low-cost IR remote doesn’t match the perceived quality of the consumer electronics device itself.

Nordic SoCs lower BoM and time to market

Nordic’s ultra-low-power Bluetooth SoCs allow customers to achieve ultra-long battery lives for their smart remotes and are highly integrated.

This means they eliminate the need for as many extra external components and passives as possible. These components are all pre-integrated and pre-optimized within the Nordic SoC already. This not only lowers the total Bill of Material (BoM) cost for a smart remote, but it also makes the remote much simpler and thus quicker to design.

To help smart remote customers even more, Nordic also offers an advanced reference design for TV and STB smart remotes, accessible from its nRF Connect SDK. This natively supports multiple HID extras you may wish to add. This can include a basic mouse or keyboard, or a more advanced gyro-based Air Mouse, and also voice control and activation (using ADPCM compression).

Finally, Nordic’s multi-protocol Bluetooth SoCs allow customers to combine Bluetooth LE and 2.4GHz proprietary protocols in one design to cover the maximum number of possible use cases.

Highlighted applications

Smart Remote TV

      
      
Smart Remote STB

       
Remote CE        

Wireless protocols for Smart Remotes

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.

2.4 GHz proprietary

2.4 GHz flexibity and simplicity

Security

Nordic Semiconductor is a leading provider of low-power wireless communication solutions. We offer a range of security features within all product series and have partnered with leading security providers to offer a complete end-to-end security solution for our customers.

Power Management ICs

Nordic Semiconductor leverages its extensive experience in ultra-low-power wireless technology to develop power management ICs (PMIC) and integrated circuits, enabling industry-leading low power wireless solutions.

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.

 

nRF Connect for Desktop

nRF Connect for Desktop is a cross-platform framework for development applications. It contains applications for testing Bluetooth Low Energy and LTE links, power optimization, programming and more.

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