WIRELESS NETWORKING

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About wireless Networking

wireless Sensor Network:(WSN)

WSN is an emerging class of systems made possible by cheap hardware, advanced programming tools, complex algorithms, long lasting power sources and energy efficient radio interfaces.

Wireless sensor network is a new paradigm in designing fault tolerant mission critical systems, to enable varied applications like threat detection, environmental monitoring, traditional sensing and actuation and much more. It is an emerging area of inter-disciplinary research between people in the electrical engineering, computer science, and among their various disciplines.

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ANT NETWORK:

ANT is a proprietary wireless sensor network technology featuring a wireless communications protocol stack that enables semiconductor radios operating in the 2.4GHz RF spectrum ("ISM band") to communicate by establishing standard rules for co-existence, data representation, signalling, authentication and error detection. ANT is characterized by a low computational overhead, and high efficiency that results in low power consumption by the radios supporting the protocol. ANT is ported to a semiconductor transceiver from a specialist manufacturer (typically Nordic Semiconductor of Oslo, Norway) for practical implementations. Industrial, Scientific and Medical allocation of the

ANT has been targeted at the sports sector, particularly fitness and cycling performance monitoring. The transceivers are embedded in equipment such as heart rate belts, watches, cycle power and cadence meters, and distance and speed monitors to form wireless Personal Area Networks (PANs) monitoring a user's performance.

Manufacturers such as Garmin,^[1] Nike, and Suunto have used ANT technology in their performance monitoring products. Recently, ANT (the company) has attempted to diversify, claiming ANT wireless sensor networking technology's low overhead, low power, interference free characteristics and operation in the 2.4GHz ISM band suit applications the health, home automation and industrial sectors.