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ANT is a production-proven solution that can already be found in a wide range of consumer products from companies.
ANT Products:
- Mide
- Power Management
- Food Transportation
- Nuvi Remote
ANT+ Interoperable Products:
In addition, ANT’s power efficiency makes it ideally suited to countless applications where wireless connectivity is now practical due to ANT’s low battery consumption and cost.
List of commercially available products
Prime examples include:
- Wrist-mounted instrumentation
- Heart Rate Monitoring (HRM)
- Speed and Distance Monitoring (SDM)
- Bike computers
- Health and wellness monitoring devices
- Industrial sensors
- Low data-rate communications
- Active RFID
- Location-based services
- Utilities wireless Automated Meter Reading (AMR)
- Smart toys
- Automotive instruments
- Remote Control
- Central control of power devices
A Practical Continua Solution
ANT+ proudly addresses all Continua use case requirements for Body Area Networks (BAN) including:
- Proven Ultra-low Power
- Co-existence with nearby networks
- Small memory size
- Support Range and data transmission rates
- Number of devices on network
- Mobility
- Ad hoc capability
- Frequency agility
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| USE CASE REQUIREMENTS | ANT+ SOLUTION | |
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Support battery powered devices with battery life measured in years | 1avg as low as 7.5uA .5Hz MR=2.99 years @ 24 hours per day on CR2032 |
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Support range on the order of 10s of meters to 100s of meters |
0dBm RFIC 18.5dBm FCC OK |
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Number of devices on network on the order of 10s to 1000s |
8 independent channels each with 216 Nodes |
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Sensor may be mobile; must support Tx/Rx at walking/running speed |
millions of sensors shipped to date |
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Support range of reliability requirements (e.g. some sensors require guaranteed delivery, others require streaming paradigms) |
Acknowledged, burst, Network Key and 128 bit AES *all standard ( * AES on next gen product) |
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Subset of devices require secure transmission of data |
Encryption possible via host or AES128 soon |
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Should be easy to add new devices to network |
ASC, AdHoc capability |
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Must communicate reliably in environments that contain other RF devices (e.g. Wi-Fi, microwaves, cordless phones, Bluetooth) |
<150 uS packet transfer time, self-adaptive timing, frequency agility |
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Must support coexistence with nearby networks of the same type (e.g. two adjacent apartments have their own network) Must be "body friendly"; i.e. not harmful to humans |
Isochronous TDMA, simple pairing, programmable PWR out |
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Must support data transmission rates from a few bytes/hour to a few Kbytes per second (non-buffered) |
8 byte ANT packet, .5Hz Message rate, ANF FS bursts at 1Mbps |
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Must support location-awareness inside and outside of home |
Easy to deploy relays, Scanning Channel |
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Support emergency/PERS (mission-critical) communication in a mobile environment | SDIO interface to Cell network |