ANT Wireless Symposium 2019

ANT BASICS | MICHAEL HEIBER, ANT WIRELESS

Get the most out of your ANT Wireless Symposium experience by joining this quick introduction to ANT. Designed for all levels of knowledge, you’ll find out the basics of the ANT protocol, explore the difference between ANT and ANT+, learn about coexistence management, message and channel types as well as discover the various ANT topologies.

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ANT WIRELESS OPENING SESSION | ANDREW SKARSGARD, ANT WIRELESS

Welcoming Remarks

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ANT+ UPDATE | JEREMY FRIESEN, ANT WIRELESS

Learn about the latest developments in the ANT+ ecosystem, as well as technical working group updates.

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THE EVOLUTION OF LOW-POWER WIRELESS IN CYCLING | JIM MEYER, SRAM

SRAM offers a breadth of ANT/BLE-enabled bicycle components and sensors and has been a technology leader in the industry for years. Join this presentation to learn how digital wireless has revolutionized cycling, how far we’ve come and the opportunities that lie ahead, including the emergence of e-bikes into the mainstream and the push towards greater safety through bicycle-to-vehicle communication.

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THE MAXIMUM VIABLE PRODUCT | BENJAMIN HILBORN, OBVIOUS

Obvious is the most comprehensive product management platform for Nordic-powered devices, and is dedicated to developers through the entire product life cycle. Join us for a conversation on what happens after the all-important minimum viable product, and how innovative companies can easily elevate their existing products to their full potential.

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PANEL DISCUSSION - EVOLVING THE ECOSYSTEM FOR CONNECTED EBIKE | DES YAP, DESFIT | KENNY CARLSON, GARMIN | JAN TALAVASEK, SPECIALIZED EUROPE GMBH

The ANT+ Alliance was created in part to address the technical challenges of the day for networking low-power wireless sensors to bicycle computers. Today’s ebikes have integrated drives and batteries, as well as electronic shifters, smart locks, smart lights, a multitude of sensors and connected displays, all networked together into a system that must be responsive and reliable. As the demands for wireless and wired networking for ebikes continue to grow, what role will standards and interoperability play to improve the usability of these solutions and help manufacturers achieve critical mass for wide-scale adoption? What areas are ripe for closer collaboration? Where are the industry’s greatest challenges?

BLUETOOTH MESH & ANT BLAZE: AN APPLICATION-BASED COMPARISON | HARRISON CHIN, ANT WIRELESS

Everything from lighting, to appliances to people are becoming interconnected, driving the need for efficient, distributed communications technologies such as mesh networks. Bluetooth Mesh and ANT Blaze are two solutions that address this need. Both technologies use the same radios and have similar protocol architectures, but it is not easy to quantify how they compare or how each actually performs in different situations.

Join this presentation to learn how underlying differences between Bluetooth Mesh and ANT Blaze make them suitable for different applications. Performance results from three real-world applications are presented using the same Nordic nRF52-based hardware and comparable test conditions.

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A WORLD OF CONNECTIVITY FOR IOT SOLUTIONS | THOMAS SØDERHOLM, NORDIC SEMICONDUCTOR

Nordic Semiconductor, the market leader in low power connectivity solutions for IoT, talks about trends and insights in the ever-evolving market of wireless connectivity. Ranging from short range 2.4 GHz to cellular, including technologies like ANT, Bluetooth, Thread, Zigbee, LTE-M, NB-IoT and GPS.

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NORDIC WORKSHOP | INTRODUCTION TO nRF91 SERIES, LTE-M/NB-IOT MODEM

Join this hands-on developer’s workshop that demonstrates Nordic’s new, low-power, simple-to-use LTE-M/NB-IoT gateway-to-cloud solution: the nRF9160 SiP module. This workshop will include the use of the new #nRF Connect SDK and nRF Connect for Cloud. Registered developers will also receive a complimentary Thingy:91 Nordic, a fully-featured, easy-to-use prototyping platform from Nordic.

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WEARABLES FOR THE WORKPLACE | A HANDS-ON WORKSHOP USING CONNECT IQ

Workshop participants will connect, commission and test their wearables for different industrial worker use cases, including a ‘Man-Down’ Alert with vital sign monitoring. Bringing together Garmin wearables, the Connect IQ SDK, wireless mesh technology and a cloud-based application, built on Microsoft Azure.

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CONNECT IQ PRESENTATION | NICOLAS KRAL, GARMIN INTERNATIONAL

Learn about all that Connect IQ has to offer! Explore Connect IQ features, enhancements and products while gaining first-hand knowledge from Garmin’s Connect IQ team on how to use Connect IQ apps to solve unique problems.

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GETTING YOUR DATA INTO THE CLOUD | COLEMAN SMITH & ANJA SCHAAL, RUTRONIK

Discover the cellular landscape and network evolution to get your data into the cloud. Rutronik is able to contribute a full range of electronic components for designers developing ANT applications. Rutronik’s product range includes semiconductors, passive and electromechanical components as well as embedded boards, storage technologies, displays and wireless products.

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FITNESS AND SPORTS TECHNOLOGY TRENDS IN 2019 AND THE KEYS TO CONSUMER LOYALTY  |  DES YAP, DESFIT

Do consumers really like your products? Did your company deliver this year? What is the future of technology for sport and fitness? Des Yap from DesFit will guide you through the sport and fitness trends of past, present and future in this unabridged session designed to help you make your product and services successful with the people who use them the most. In this session, Des will explain why some products are more successful than others, what trends to consider and which ones to avoid as well as the keys to consumer loyalty, reliability and usability.

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