Transportation

Helping you build a smart transportation solution to cut congestion and pollution

Nordic Semiconductor is ideally positioned to help you build a smart transportation solution that helps move people around more quickly, easily, efficiently, and cost-effectively. 

Comprehensive wireless connectivity solutions for transportation needs

Smart transportation is a core industry focus for Nordic. By offering every major wireless IoT connectivity technology you could require for transportation, we are a complete provider that allows you to develop the optimum wireless connectivity solution for your needs, whether it is cellular IoT, DECT NR+, low power Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, Matter, Thread, or Zigbee.

Making cities smarter and more connected

Nordic offers smart transportation connectivity solutions that increase the efficiency of conventional car use, as well as enabling alternative modes of transport.

Addressing traffic management challenges with Nordic wireless connectivity

Managing the flow of automotive traffic is a top priority to address the serious problems of congestion and pollution. Prime tools include smart roads, tolls, and parking, all of which can be built cost-effectively and reliably using Nordic wireless connectivity solutions.

Wireless technologies for shared micromobility solutions

Shared micromobility solutions – comprising rentable e-bikes, e-scooters, and other lightweight electric vehicles – all require short-range wireless technologies, such as Bluetooth LE, to permit authorized smartphone access and billing. For tracking efficiently through a Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS),  longer-range wireless technologies such as cellular IoT (LTE-M and NB-IoT), GNSS global positioning, and low power Wi-Fi locationing are required.

Highlighted applications

Smart parking lots and garages

Smart road toll collection systems

Shared micromobility (e-bikes, e-scooters, and other lightweight electric vehicles for <10 miles of local travel)

Wireless protocols for transportation

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.

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.

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.

Matter

Matter provides a shared foundation on which to build an application. The goal is to have interoperability between devices and ecosystems.

Zigbee

Are you looking to develop a Zigbee product? Advanced multiprotocol SoCs, a qualified mesh stack with samples, certified hardware, and software.

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.