Nordic Tech Tour EMEA 2025

Nordic Semiconductor Tech Tour Summary

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To further deepen our expertise and learn more about Nordic’s plans for product development, our team represented by Katarzyna Gawior, Business Development Specialist, and our Developers Daniel Dunak and Wojciech Trzaska, took part in the Nordic Tech Tour EMEA 2025 conference held in Kraków.

Here you can find some more details about this event – Nordic Tech Tour EMEA 2025 Kraków.

Nordic Tech Tour EMEA 2025 was a great chance to get a compact, practical overview of where the Nordic ecosystem is heading. The agenda was strongly hands-on:

• low power wireless IoT solutions
• the nRF54L Series and nRF Connect SDK
• nRF Connect Bare Metal on the nRF54L Series
• Power Management ICs
• Cellular IoT: NB-IoT, LTE-M1, DECT NR+, NTN & nRF Cloud services
• Low-Power Wi-Fi 6 for IoT applications

Everything was backed by live demos and plenty of time to talk directly with Nordic engineers about real-world implementation details.

We’re coming back with a few very concrete discoveries that can speed up our work and provide our clients with more comprehensive and diverse project implementation options.

Presented solutions summary

Here is a summary of the solutions that particularly caught our attention:

1. 1. 1. 1. Pinplanner – a simple tool that can save time in Zephyr Devicetree work (https://pinplanner.app/)
            It’s a web-based pin configuration tool for the nRF54L series with a genuinely user-friendly interface. In a few minutes you can select peripherals, map pins, and then generate ready-to-use DeviceTree for Zephyr.
         2. nRF Connect SDK Bare Metal – Nordic has ported the familiar SoftDevice model from nRF5 SDK into nRF Connect SDK, which means you can build simple BLE applications without Zephyr and without an RTOS.
            For us, the biggest advantage of introducing this SDK is the ability to migrate projects using the nRF5 SDK Bare Metal more smoothly and quickly. The SDK allows existing projects to be transferred to newer Nordic devices (such as the nRF54L family) with significantly fewer architectural changes than if the code were completely rewritten based on Zephyr.
         3. nRF Cloud – We are quite excited about nRF Cloud. The biggest benefit is straightforward –  Nordic provides an integrated, ready-made cloud, so we don’t have to do that and maintain ourselves. Key capabilities that we see:
            * FOTA
            * debugging integrations (including support for tools like Memfault)
            In practice, that means we can spend more time on application logic and product features and less time reinventing cloud infrastructure that Nordic already offers.
         4. nRF9151 and NTN – It’s a compact, low-power SiP (12×11 mm) with an LTE-M / NB-IoT modem, GNSS, and DECT NR+ support. Compared to nRF9160, it’s smaller and optimized for power efficiency, while still offering a Cortex-M33 application core and solid memory resources for modern connected products.

       

1. What we’re especially interested in is Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) support. Nordic highlighted that nRF9151 is designed with LEO satellite connectivity in mind, including operation scenarios where devices can switch between terrestrial cellular and satellite links.For us this is a very practical direction. NTN could significantly improve cloud connectivity in several projects that operate in weak-coverage or remote environments. It’s a promising step toward reliable IoT communication everywhere, without having to fall back on complex alternative networks.

Despite our extensive experience with Nordic’s tools, we are always eager to take part in initiatives like this to stay up to date with the latest developments and continuously expand our knowledge.

If you plan to develop your product with the Nordic technologies and tools and you are looking for support, feel free to contact us.