ANT Development Tools
Various ANT development tools are available to advance your application development efforts and fast track your product's time to market. These tools inlcude development kits, USB stick and development boards
ANT Development Kits provide the resources necessary to
- Evaluate ANT as the practical solution for your wireless sensor network
- Design wireless network control nodes and sensor nodes based on ANT chip, chip sets and modules
- Develop PC applications connecting to ANT products
It contains ANT modules and accessory boards. Registered kit owners are able to enter the ANT developer's zone to access the exclusive PC tools, application notes, source codes and reference designs.
The Flexible and Interoperable Data Transfer (FIT) protocol is designed specifically for the storing and sharing of data that originates from sport, fitness and health devices. The FIT protocol defines a set of data storage templates (FIT messages) that can be used to store information such as user profiles and activity data in files. It is specifically designed to be compact, interoperable and extensible.
The software development kit (SDK) is provided to generate code and libraries specific to a product’s requirements. The SDK enables efficient use of a binary format at the embedded level, to significantly reduce the development effort and allow for rapid product development.
The ANT USB Stick allows you to design PC applications connecting to ANT products or PC based wireless sensor network control nodes.
Drivers are available for Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and Vista.