ANT+ Advantages

• Ability for one wireless transmit node to send to many receiver nodes
• Fundamental functionality for most ANT+ sensors

• Any display (Receiver) or sensor (Transmitter) can be removed and other displays (Receivers) will continue to be able to receive data

Sport & Fitness

• The relationship of a receiver to a transmitter is ad-hoc and therefore the receivers can go in and out of connection without affecting other receivers.
• Running: HR sensor sending data to watch (display) + smartphone (display) + coach
• Cycling: HR, speed&cadence sending data to watch (display) + smartphone (display) + cycle computer (display) + coach
• In the gym: HR sensor sending data to watch (display) + fitness machine (display) + main class monitor coach (display)

Health and Wellness

• The relationship of a receiver to a transmitter is ad-hoc and therefore the receivers can go in and out of connection without affecting other receivers.
• Medical sensor: sensor sending data to watch (display) + smartphone (display) + home health hub + doctor @clinic

Point of Information – Inventory Information

• Product information tags broadcast to multiple readers
• Multiple readers can access information simultaneously
• Multiple readers can interact (they have a two way data interaction) with product information tag concurrently
• Museum/public attraction information tags collecting details of visitors while sending description detail of the exhibit
• Point of purchase tags working with smart phone app and capturing shopper feedback and demographics while advertising.
• Warehouse location tags communication position to WAN connected readers

• Ability of a large number of transmitter nodes to be received by a single receiver node
• Ability to have hundreds of like transmitters coexisting without collisions
• ANT supports a variety of ‘many to one’ topologies offering variable power consumption and latency models.
• Fundamental functionality for most ANT+ sensors.

• Any sensor can be removed and display will continue to receive data from others
• Hundreds of transmitters can co-exist without collision

Sport & Fitness

• Training classes: spin class participants sending speed or other data to main class LCD monitor.
• Race events: participant station logging
• Cycling peloton co-existence

Health and Wellness

• Corporate wellness programs: employee activity monitors automatically download info to corporate office data station when arriving at office

Inventory control

• Location of the asset handling equipment when product put away
• Tracking of warehouse staff and equipment

• Ability to create a communication (establish) when location conditions are met
• Proximity pairing a basic ANT+ functionality

• The ANT protocol is very ad-hoc friendly and can manage devices coming together or separating
• Dramatically improves the pairing process of unknown masters to slaves

Sport& Fitness

• In the gym group environment: pairing HR or other sensors to fitness machines. Filter based on distance

Security

• Computers: lock screens when away

Point of Information/Point of Sale

• Distance from information point to control the access to information coming from the inventory tags.  This will allow only readers within a certain range to access the data.

• Ability of any node to concurrently assume multiple wireless behaviours
• Fundamental functionality for most ANT+ sensors

• Any device can be any combination of master and slave functions, concurrently
• Allows creation of relay stations
  • Sensor to sensor
  • Display to display
  • Sensor to display to display

Maintaining backward compatibility with new approaches for sensors

• The Garmin Vector cycling power meter is a power meter using two physically separate devices, one on each pedal
• All previous cycling power meters have been a single device with a single connection to a display device
• ANT flexibility allows the pedals to communicate togther to aggregate data, while also creating a backwards compatible single connection to a display device
   

Aggregating and re-transmitting information

• Team/Peloton Cycling race: single rider on team collects data from other team sensors and sends to uplink node or coach in pursuit vehicle
   

Combining collected information to provide

• New device collects input from multiple legacy sensors to mathematically extract new types of information and transmit result to main display.

• Ability of multiple, distinct wireless networks to operate successfully and concurrently with one another
• Fundamental functionality for all ANT+ sensors
• The ability to deploy hundreds of transmitters in RF range without them colliding in the RF space.

• Makes it possible to feature dozens of sensors and hubs in one location.  Eg.  80 Indoor Cycling bikes in a room with power meters paired to computers and each Heart Rate tracking independently.

Wireless transmissions react to presence of other signals to ensure successful operation
 

Useful in highly congested environments in sport and fitness

• Sport & Fitness
• Large spin-class environment
  • Each participant uses own set of monitors in separate star configurations
  • HR, Speed, Cadence, power, to watch &  fitness machine
  • 80 participants, 4 transmissions per == 320 communications
  • No coordination between stars is required to perform 100%
  • works. 
• Cycling group
• 10+ riders having their own star network of devices
• HR, Speed, Cadence, Power
• Cooperation required for successful operation

Health and Wellness

• Corporate wellness programs need to find, associate, and upload stored data at a company entrance
• Hundreds of beacons may be present and the transition from beacon to transfer must be simple

 Asset management

• Hundreds of tags on a pallet, container must all be heard