SoftSIM is the world’s first 100% software and agnostic IoT SIM, and is now available for commercial deployment on Nordic cellular IoT chips such as the nRF9160 System-in-Package (SiP). This agreement allows developers to download SoftSIM from the cloud, which will then be executed as software by the nRF9160 SiP’s embedded ARM Cortex-M33 application processor. Testing has shown that using a SoftSIM reduces the current consumption to around 3.5µA, compared to an average consumption of 46µA observed when using physical SIM cards from other connectivity providers. This means that the total average current in idle mode of the radio module can go from 52µA down to 9.5µA, greatly increasing the battery lifetime of the device.
