This development kit is applicable to various industries, including environmental monitoring, healthcare, home/building automation, industrial control, and wearable devices.

The base board of this development kit includes ON Semiconductor's latest NCS36510 system-on-chip (SoC) equipped with a low-power-optimized 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 core running on ARM mbed OS. When attaching other additional boards to a Wi-Fi-enabled main board, connection protocols implemented with ON Semiconductor's ultra-low power wireless (SIGFOX, Thread, EnOcean, Wireless Mbus, Bluetooth Low Energy, Zigbee, PoE, CAN, etc.), sensors (temperature, humidity, ambient light, proximity and pressure, heart rate monitoring and biosensor interfaces), and actuators (stepper/brushless motor driving and LED string driving) can be added to the system.


In addition, this portfolio supports various features important for implementing various security elements, such as encryption, secure debugging, secure boot, and authentication.

This kit is also complemented by software aspects provided by an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) that includes a C++ compiler, debugger, and code editor. This package integrates comprehensive application examples, use cases, and related libraries that facilitate the entire process of IoT design, from the initial concept stage to full development.

In addition to the standard platform provided, this kit supports industry-standard cloud connectivity protocols MQTT and REST, making it easy to utilize other existing IoT cloud service products.

Michael Horn, Vice President of Marketing for ARM’s IoT Business Unit, said, “While a diverse portfolio is needed to enable a wide range of configurations for ready-to-use prototyping, ON Semiconductor’s IoT Development Kit (IDK) simplifies complex development, allowing customers to focus more on differentiating their own IoT solutions.”