ANT+ is a wireless sensor network technology, widely used by sports and fitness sensors and associated display and logging equipment.
Our Client was working with a high-end exercise bike manufacturer. They were finding that, although ANT+ is well-established in the sports & fitness sector, it is not widely supported by smartphones and other mobile devices - which customers increasingly want to use in their training programmes.The Client had developed hardware in the form of a "dongle" supporting both ANT+ and the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless technology common in smartphones, etc.
The dongle used a Nordic Semiconductor nR51422 multiprotocol System-on-Chip (SoC) to provide the ANT+ and BLE support.
