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hello I'm Gary Simms from Andrew Authority and today I'd like to talk to you about the Nordics EE 52 and the Nordic thingy 52 is an IOT sensor platform that's got built-in Bluetooth Low Energy and because of that it can talk to devices like your smartphone or to a Raspberry Pi and it's absolutely brilliant for experimenting and for prototyping interested in when you're playing around with any IOT projects you have or any IOD IOT ideas so if you like to find out more about the singing 52 please let me explain so as you can see the Nordic singing 52 is a six by six rubber square it's a couple of centimetres thick and it's got built into it a whole bunch of sensors including pressure sensor temperature sensor co2 sensor got a nine way axis motion detector it's got LEDs cause it's got Bluetooth Low Energy at the heart of it is an arm cortex-m for microcontroller now the idea is basically this you want to measure something with centers whether it be temperature or pressure or the motion for let's say making a fitness tracker and that information is relayed over Bluetooth Low Energy to a smartphone or to a Raspberry Pi now nor did give you all the source code for the thing in 52 itself and for an Android app and for an iOS app so basically you have all the building blocks that you need to take a device like the thingy 52 and talk with onto your smartphone and develop any kind of IOT project that you like now getting started with the scene 52 is really easy you basically switch it on you have to rubber cover off there's a switch there you switch it on you then go to download the sample app from the Play Store you search for the device using bluetooth and then the two are then connected together and then the internal app the sample app they've given you allows you to monitor the different sensors so you can want till the temperature and the pressure there's even a button on that you can press you can see if the buttons press or not you can see all of the different things with the motion the 9 axis motion is what compass is got heading settings you can also play around with the led to turn out different colors and it's all there for you in the source code so if you have any kind of Android app development experience you could very easily take the app and develop it into your own app to do your own kind of thing with it now one other interesting aspect of this Nordic region is it had them built in microphone and speaker and Nordic give an example of how you can actually do audio over bluetooth low energy between the smartphone app and the c52 so in one case you can record something on your phone and it will get played through the speaker on here or you can speak into the Nordic 52 and it will get received on your smart phone and so the possibility for that also with home automation are great you can actually connect this up in such a way that you speak into this this could be somewhere on your person on a wall you speak into it and it talks to maybe one of the the digital voice assistants like you know Google a system because it's API is available for Android and for of course for the Raspberry Pi so that it shows you the possibilities of Low Energy a Bluetooth low-energy audio but it also shows you what you could do with it now as a caveat it's worth mentioning that the quality of the Bluetooth Low Energy is quite low because none of its compresses all PCM staff 8 8 kilohertz which is very very low but good enough as a demonstration and the reason for that is is they don't want to put any coding and decoding like of a codec like mp3 or AAC C or whatever into the the little microprocessor on here of course it can be modified to do it however you see best now a real power of this kind of IOT setup is when we involve the internet or singly involved the cloud itself so you could for example connect up the app and there's already like the hooks already there to connect up the app to IFTTT i if this then that so basically you couldn't basically set up a situation where if you press the button the Nordic thingy will talk to your smartphone over Bluetooth Low Energy your smartphone will then contact IFTTT till it something's happened and then you can build an applet to to action that so a simple example you press the button you go to the smart phone smart phone talks in the cloud IFTTT then sends a notification to your phone very simple but you could do it better you could check do things so that when the temperature gets to a certain level then you tell your nest thermostat to do something or when it gets a certain time of day you can do something with your Fitzhugh light bulbs or any fact anything that can be connected to the if this then that service can be controlled according to what the sensors are picking up on your thingy 52 now if you want to for example get cakes up to the Efus then that service have got full instructions over at the article that goes with this video includes tell you what the event names are when different things happen on the thingy 52 so go read that article and you'll get yourself kicked it up really simply now one more thing I'd like to mention that the Nordic 52 is it has the infrastructure for over-the-air firmware update already built into the system so that means that if you want to update the software on your thingy 50 to the Android app can do that for you automatically in fact things on my Fitbit I'm always getting updates for this imagine if you've got other IOT equipment and also the security concerns we have today with IOT it's important you're able to update the firmware on your IOT products and that already built in here so you just have to make a new firmware available and the app knows how to upload it - the thing is - over Bluetooth so all that hard work force updates and for for deployment cycles and for all this stuff concern about security Valatie it's already built in there for you so again nerds and all the head listing so to summarize basically this is a great toy to play with if you're kind of a tech enthusiast if you like the idea of playing with if this then that and having sensor data and maybe like to record it maybe you like to analyze it so this is just it's good fun and it's a good way to kind of understand Bluetooth Low Energy and understand IOT that's great but if you're a developer if you have any kind of Android development experience then this is an absolutely bring it because you don't have to modify the code on here because all of the services all those sensor data is available just through the Android app and you need to modify the Android app to do whatever we want to do if you want to make the next Fitbit rival using the motion sensors that are inside this then go ahead and do it you get one of these start modifying the app and just go for it now the other thing is if you actually are a professional developer then the great thing is all the source code is available the Bill of Materials available the schematics are available so you can actually build consumer level products with everything in order to give you know why they're doing this because Nordik want to sell their Bluetooth low-energy chips and the microcontroller chip that's in there they want to sell that so that you can then sell millions of them in your greatest IOT product that comes out next well i'm gary sims rounder authority and i hope you've enjoyed this look at the nordic thingy 52 if you did please do give it a thumbs up also let's forget to subscribe to and rathore --'tis youtube channel you can follow me on twitter and last but not least please go over to Andrew authority comm because we are your source for all things Android