This product is ANT+ certified and complies with the following specified ANT+ device profiles:
Bicycle speed dataBicycle cadence dataBicycle combined speed and cadence dataBicycle power dataHeart rate data
Beta support for the following profiles. Not gone though certification yet.Stride Based Speed and Distance (footpod)Environment (Garmin Tempe)
Polar Wearlink®+ transmitter with Bluetooth® and Zephyr HxM BlueTooth Heart rate monitor support added with 1.2.6
Bluetooth Low Energy / Bluetooth Smart support is currently in beta please see http://www.iforpowell.com/cms/index.php?page=btle-beta for details and to sign up.
IpSensorMan should recognize other ANT+ sensor types although full decoding support is not currently implemented.
Currently the applications using IpSensorMan are:
IpBike an ANT+ sensor based bike computer. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ipbike
IpPeloton an app to show details from other ANT+ heart rate monitors and power sensors. So you can easily compare your effort with your riding companions effort. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ippeloton
IpWatts an application to log the data from multiple power sensors simultaniously with a single timebase. Also logs a single Speed, Cadence and Heart rate source. The app you need if you want to compare Power meters.https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ipwatts
IpSmartHr an app to display your heart rate on Sony's SmartWatch.https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ipsmarthr
Other applications may well be added.
If you are a developer and want to use this interface then please feel free to email me.
Permission reasons.
Network communications - full Internet access. The crash reporting system want this. Also I collect usage stats via flurry.com. I am really interested what phones it is installed on and what ANT+ sensors it is used with. You can switch this off from the options.
Hardware controls - ANT radio access. I won't be able to do much without this one.
System tools - modify global system settings, prevent phone from sleeping. There is an option to keep ANT active when the phone is in airplane mode which us useful for saving power, this needs to modify the system settings. You still need to do the airplane mode entry yourself. This feature needs at least version 2.6 of ANT Radio Services. If we are actively monitoring the ant radio the phone will not sleep, the screen may still go off though.
Bluetooth - in order to support the Bluetooth Heart rate monitors.
ANT Compatible phones.
HTC RhymeSony Xperia™ S Sony Xperia™ SLSony Xperia™ Arco S Sony Xperia ion Sony Live with Walkman Sony activeSony Xperia arc Sony Xperia arc S Sony Xperia miniSony Xperia mini proSony Xperia neoSony neo V Sony Xperia MSony Xperia Z UltraSony Xperia pro Sony Xperia raySony Xperia X8 Sony Xperia X10 mini Sony Xperia X10 Mini pro
For details on USB Host mode and using an ANT usb stick please see
http://www.iforpowell.com/cms/index.php?page=usb-ant-stick