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Nordic Thingy 53 Data Sheet

The Nordic Thingy:53 is a battery-powered prototyping platform based on the nRF5340 SoC. It features environmental, light, motion, and sound sensors as well as wireless connectivity standards including Bluetooth LE, mesh, Thread, and Zigbee. The Thingy:53 is well-suited for machine learning and IoT applications and comes with an app for collecting sensor data for embedded ML model training and deployment. It can be programmed via the nRF Connect SDK or by flashing firmware over Bluetooth using the nRF Programmer app.

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Nordic Thingy 53 Data Sheet

The Nordic Thingy:53 is a battery-powered prototyping platform based on the nRF5340 SoC. It features environmental, light, motion, and sound sensors as well as wireless connectivity standards including Bluetooth LE, mesh, Thread, and Zigbee. The Thingy:53 is well-suited for machine learning and IoT applications and comes with an app for collecting sensor data for embedded ML model training and deployment. It can be programmed via the nRF Connect SDK or by flashing firmware over Bluetooth using the nRF Programmer app.

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Nordic Thingy:53

Multi-sensor prototyping platform for wireless IoT and embedded machine learning

Key features
 Battery powered prototyping platform
for Matter and machine learning on the
nRF5340 SoC
 Support for multiple wireless standards,
Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth mesh, Thread,
Zigbee
 Environmental sensor for temperature,
humidity, air quality and air pressure
 Color and light sensor
 Low-power accelerometer and 6-axis
inertial measurement unit (IMU)
 Buzzer and PDM microphone
 Connector for additional external boards
and accessories
Overview
 USB-C rechargeable 1350 mAh Li-Po battery
The Nordic Thingy:53 is a multi-sensor prototyping platform for Matter,
embedded machine learning (ML) and other wireless IoT products. It is
 nRF Edge Impulse mobile app for
based on the nRF5340 System-on-Chip (SoC), our current flagship dual-core embedded machine learning
wireless SoC. With integrated sensors for motion, sound, light and environ-  nRF Programmer mobile app for easily
mental factors, it is the perfect platform for building proof-of-concepts and flashing firmware on the go
developing new prototypes in a very short time.
nRF5340 SoC
For this third installment of the Nordic Thingies the case of the Thingy:53  High performance 128 MHz Arm
features a completely new design, based on the well-known form-factor Cortex-M33 application core
from the Thingy-lineup. While keeping the compact square shape and  Ultra-low power 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33
slim-profile, a door has been added to the casing to make the on/off-switch network core
and the external connectors easily accessible, without having to remove  Multi-protocol radio with support for
the outer shell. Along with the Stemma/Qwiic/Groove-compatible external Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth mesh, Thread and
connector this allows for an improved user experience when using the
Zigbee
Thingy:53 with or without external hardware accesories.
nPM1100 PMIC
The Arm Cortex-M33 processor application core of the nRF5340 SoC ensures
that the Thingy:53 can handle heavy computational tasks of embedded
 Highly efficient PMIC for better battery life
machine learning, without affecting the wireless connectivity. The application  Full power path for seamless switching
core is clocked at 128 MHz for the best possible performance, with ample between charging and battery operation
room for your applications in its 1 MB of flash storage and 512 KB RAM.
Wireless connectivity is handled separately by another Arm Cortex-M33 core nRF21540 FEM
clocked at a lower 64 MHz for more power efficient operation and without  RF front end for extended range and
taking up any computational resources from the application core. increased link robustness

Every Thingy:53 comes with its own debug- and current-measurement board Applications
in the box. This small PCB provides easy access to pins that would otherwise  Machine learning
not be accessible. A helpful accessory to troubleshoot your application, for  Smart home sensing
instance, in combination with our Power Profiler Kit II or other standalone  Fast prototyping
debugging- or power-analyzing hardware.  Proof-of-concept development

For more information please visit: nordicsemi.com/Thingy53

Nordic Thingy:53 Product Brief Version 1.1


Internal layout of the Thingy:53.

nRF Edge Impulse machine learning app Specification


Every Nordic Thingy:53 comes pre-installed with firmware
nRF5340 SoC
to transfer training data wirelessly using Bluetooth LE to Application core 128 MHz Arm Cortex-M33
the cloud via the nRF Edge Impulse mobile app, to create 1 MB Flash + 512 KB RAM
an embedded machine learning model with Edge Impulse Network core 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33
Studio. The model can then be wirelessly deployed to the 256 KB Flash + 64 KB RAM
Thingy:53. Inferencing is performed by the Thingy:53 and the Power management IC nPM1100 PMIC
results can be viewed in the app. This enables you to take
RF front-end nRF21540 FEM
full advantage of the advanced sensors of the Thingy:53
in applications like voice recognition or movement pattern Wireless protocol Bluetooth LE/Bluetooth mesh/NFC/
detection. The low-power accelerometer and the PDM support Thread/Zigbee/2.4 GHz proprietary
microphone can also wake the SoC from sleep on motion or External connectors Qwiik/Stemma/Groove compatible
sound events. This is especially useful for creating low-power 4-pin JST
embedded machine learning applications, allowing the Battery 1350 mAh Li-Po, USB-C rechargeable
device to remain sleeping and save power when there is LED RGB, programmable
nothing to register or react to.
Buttons Available through casing, programmable
nRF Programmer app Inertial measurement 6-axis with accelerometer
The accompanying nRF Programmer app for the Thingy:53 unit
adds a new level of simplicity never seen before in a proto- Low power Wake-on-motion capable
typing platform of this type. With the app you’ll be able to accelerometer
select from pre-made firmware for the Thingy:53 and flash Enviromental sensors Temperature, humidity, air quality,
it directly over-the-air from an iOS or Android device. This air pressure
means uploading new firmware to take advantage of the Color and light sensor Senses lighting conditions
nRF5340 SoC and the built-in sensors capabilities is possible
Microphone PDM, wake-on-sound capable
anywhere, and without connecting to a PC.
Buzzer Piezoelectric, 4 kHz
nRF Connect SDK
For programming your own firmware applications, the Related Products
Thingy:53 has full support in the nRF Connect SDK. It
nRF5340 SoC SoC supporting Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth
is a scalable and unified software development kit for
mesh, Thread and Zigbee
building products based on all our nRF52, nRF53 and nRF91
Series wireless devices. It offers developers an extensible nPM1100 PMIC Power management IC
framework for building firmware for devices and applications nRF21540 RF FEM RF front end module for Bluetooth LE,
in all product categories, from lightweight to computational Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Zigbee
heavy tasks. It integrates the Zephyr RTOS and a wide range nRF Connect SDK Software development kit for the nRF5340
of samples, application protocols, protocol stacks, libraries
and hardware drivers. nRF Connect SDK offers a single Power Profiler Kit II Power profiling and power optimization of
code base for all our devices and software components. It embedded solutions
simplifies porting modules, libraries and drivers from one
application to another, thus reducing development time. Order Information
By enabling developers to pick and choose the essential Thingy53 IoT prototyping platform
software components for their application, high memory
efficiency is guaranteed.

For more information please visit: nordicsemi.com/Thingy53

Nordic Thingy:53 Product Brief Version 1.1

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