Bluetooth Low Energy

(Bluetooth LE)

The go-to choice for developers

Trusted by thousands of developers and holding a 40% market share, Nordic’s Bluetooth® Low Energy (often called BLE) solution is the go-to choice, leading to over two million wireless SoC (System-on-Chip) shipments daily into innovative IoT products worldwide.

Why choose Nordic's Bluetooth Low Energy solution?

Strong wireless SoC portfolio: Our extensive selection of ultra-low-power wireless SoC options features scalable memory configurations and feature sets covering a wide range of requirements. This also provides flexibility during development if memory or feature requirements change unexpectedly.

Ultra-low-power MCU functionality and 2.4 GHz radio: Our small ultra-low-power wireless SoC options integrate high-efficiency MCU (Microcontroller Unit) functionality and a high-performance multiprotocol 2.4 GHz radio, along with powerful peripherals, enabling you to build the smallest, most power-efficient IoT products.

Fully-featured certified Bluetooth LE protocol stack: As one of the major contributors to the development of the Bluetooth standard, we ensure our Bluetooth Low Energy stack supports all mandatory and optional features. With full reusable certification, our stack delivers robust Bluetooth LE communication with industry-leading interoperability.

Proven quality, reliability, and interoperability: Backed by thousands of developers and billions of wireless SoC shipments, our solution provides unmatched quality and reliability. Our Bluetooth LE protocol stack delivers verified interoperability with everything from smartphones to tablets and smartwatches, minimizing costly returns and protecting your IoT product’s reputation.

Made for developers: Our easy-to-use solution features powerful software and tools, technical support for all, comprehensive documentation, and hands-on online courses, enabling you to focus on creating features that make your IoT product stand out.

Single-board development kits

We offer single-board development kits containing everything needed to get started with development on our SoCs. The kits make all features and GPIOs of the SoCs available to you, including NFC. All kits have LEDs and buttons, enabling you to get output and give input. All kits come with an on-board SEGGER J-Link debugger enabling both programming and debugging of the SoC.

We also offer the nRF52840 Dongle. It is complementary hardware to the nRF Connect for Desktop tool. It still supports Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh, Thread, and Zigbee. It can be a low-cost alternative when doing large-scale testing, or when size is important. Do note that it does not have a SEGGER J-Link debugger on board. We recommend buying a proper development kit for development.

For the nRF52832 and nRF5340 SoCs, we offer easy-to-use prototyping platforms, the Nordic Thingy:52 and Nordic Thingy:53, respectively. They are designed to help build prototypes and demos without needing to build hardware or even write firmware. Do note that it does not have a SEGGER J-Link debugger on board.

We also recommend you look at the Power Profiler Kit II (PPK 2). PPK 2 is a tool you can use to measure the current consumption of all our development kits, prototyping platforms, and your own designs, from sub-uA to 1 A.


nRF54L Series

Development kit

nRF54L15 DK

Affordable, versatile development kit for evaluating and developing with the nRF54L15, nRF54L10, and nRF54L05 wireless SoCs.

nRF53 Series

Development kit

nRF5340 DK

The nRF5340 DK is the development kit for the nRF5340 SoC.

nRF52840 Dongle

nRF52840 Dongle

The nRF52840 Dongle is complementary hardware to the nRF Connect for Desktop. It supports Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Zigbee.

Prototyping platforms

Nordic Thingy:53

The Thingy:53 is a multi-sensor prototyping platform designed for rapid wireless IoT and embedded machine learning development

Nordic Thingy:52

The Nordic Thingy:52 is an easy-to-use prototyping platform, designed to help building prototypes and demos, without the need to build hardware or even write firmware.

Power Profiler Kit II

Power Profiler Kit II

The Power Profiler Kit II is an easy-to-use tool for measuring and optimizing power consumption for embedded solutions.