North Pole Engineering Announces New Wi-Fi Enabling Technology for ANT+ Products

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--North Pole Engineering announced the release of its new Wasp product at the 2011 ANT+ Alliance Symposium in Kananaskis, Alberta. Wasp is a standalone, compact 1.5 ounce product providing a bridge for ANT+ devices to communicate through Wi-Fi networks to other devices or over the Internet. Integrating an NPE WiFi-IT! module, 8-channel ANT+ transceiver, power management circuitry and rechargeable Li-Ion battery, Wasp provides a data gateway for monitoring, recording and analyzing ANT+ data remotely. Wasp receives data from connected ANT+ devices and translates the data into Wi-Fi packets, making it available to any Wi-Fi connected device. The Wasp Application Programmers Interface is an open API that is used by developers to integrate Wasp into ANT+ applications.

“you will be winning awards in the future for this product!”

Wasp is also usable as a bridge between multiple ANT+ nodes in distributed ANT+ network topologies. Since ANT+ is a personal area network, it has a typical range of approximately two meters. If the ANT+ network is used as a mesh or hub and spoke topology, Wasp can join networks together that would normally not be able to communicate with each other because of range limitations.

Many 2011 ANT+ Alliance Symposium attendees were very excited by Wasp and made statements such as, “This is the most exciting product I have seen at the Symposium,” “when can I get one,” and, “you will be winning awards in the future for this product!”

About North Pole Engineering
NPE is an engineering products and services company that has considerable expertise in helping clients add Wi-Fi connectivity to their products. NPE offers a line of fully certified low-power Wi-Fi modules, development kits and engineering services for clients who need development help.