Location Services guides

This page collects common prerequisites and guides for nRF Cloud Location Services.

Prerequisites

Make sure your setup first meets these prerequisites before you choose a tutorial. These are processes you need to complete, tools and applications you must install, or other information you need to know before getting started.

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The prerequisites on this page apply to all Location Services guides. Each guide provides any additional information needed for that component or method.

Accounts and authentication

See the Getting started guide to flash the Asset Tracker Template, create an nRF Cloud account, and onboard your device.

Toolchain and applications

The guides use the following tools and applications:

• nRF Connect for Desktop.
• nRF Connect for VS Code.
• A tool to use the APIs. Examples in the API references use cURL, but you can use another interface if you want. See REST client tools for more information on API tools.
• The following samples, depending on the guide:
  • Asset Tracker Template.
  • Location sample.
  • Modem Shell sample.

Hardware requirements

The guides in this section are written for devices using the nRF9151 SiP unless otherwise specified.

The reference hardware for the guides is the nRF9151 DK. Other devices, such as the nRF9161 DK or Thingy:91X, might require additional configuration.

Cellular location

Your device must have an active SIM card and LTE module.

Using MCELL requires nRF Connect SDK v1.8.0 or later and modem firmware v1.3.0 (for nRF9160) or 2.0.0 (for nRF91x1) or later.

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Some features may have different requirements based on the service or protocol.

A-GNSS and P-GNSS

Your device must have a GNSS module. nRF91 Series devices have an onboard GNSS receiver.

Wi-Fi

The currently supported combination of devices for Wi-Fi Location Services is the nRF9160 DK or nRF9151 DK with the nRF7002 EK shield.

APIs

See API requirements if you plan to work directly with the REST or MQTT APIs.

Guides

These guides explain specific operations using the different components of Location Services:

• Setting up Organization Auth Token (OAT) authentication for Location Services.
• Finding location through one or more cells using REST.
• Cloud-to-cloud cellular integration guide.
  • See also the requirements for a cloud-to-cloud setup.
• Finding location through Wi-Fi networks.
• GNSS assistance.

See also Troubleshooting.