17/5/2019 ANT Basics - THIS IS ANT

ANT BASICS

ANT BASICS
Welcome to the world of ANT!
If you are a new ANT developer (or would like to be) you are in the right place.
Prefer audio/visual learning?
The ANT Message Protocol and Usage document describes the ANT protocol in detail and is the starting point for
understanding everything else. It contains the fundamental knowledge you need in order to develop successfully with See the ANT Basics series on
ANT. See below for guidance as to what to look out for in each section. YouTube

With this foundation in place, you will be ready to apply the ANT+ network rules, so that your products can interoperate
with those produced by other manufacturers as part of the ANT+ ecosystem. As an ANT developer and ANT+ Adopter,
you will be part of creating and expanding that ecosystem. This will free consumers to choose the products that best
match their needs, and combine them in novel ways with other compatible devices. The possibilities are endless.

1 ANT MESSAGE PROTOCOL

AND USAGE A key feature of ANT that distinguishes it from other protocols is that any given node in the
network can act as the master for one channel, and as the slave for another channel. This
allows complex network topologies to be formed.

2 THE ANT PRODUCT FAMILY

Each network has a network key. The ANT+ network key (and the ANT+ frequency:
2457MHz) are reserved for ANT+ devices only. Public and private network keys are available

3-5 NETWORKS
CHANNELS
AND for use by other ANT devices.

Sections 3-5 (Network Topologies, ANT Nodes, and ANT Channels) of the ANT Message
Protocol and Usage document are introduced in this short presentation. Animations of the

6 PAIRING interactions between devices illustrate how the master and slave devices establish a
channel, and how network structures are formed.

7 WORKING WITH MULTIPLE

CHANNELS

8-9 EXAMPLES
10 FINAL

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