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Put an Ant+ sensor on it, and I could see the benefits of using it over my Garmin cycling computers, especially with a small mount for the bike.
by taude 13y ago
Put an Ant+ sensor on it, and I could see the benefits of using it over my Garmin cycling computers, especially with a small mount for the bike.
- krrrh 13y agoThis uses Bluetooth 4 LE (low energy) which offers the same advantages as Ant+. This protocol will probably completely supplant Ant+ in the next year or two because it's part of the Bluetooth spec and supported natively by most smartphones released in the last year. Ant+ is proprietary and has only a handful of phones with onboard chips.
- localhost 13y agoThe problem today is that if you already own devices that speak ANT+, you're not likely to be replacing them in the near future as they are generally quite expensive (eg PowerTap). The only bicycle power meter that speaks BT LE is the Stages power meter and that just started shipping. In this interim time period it would be awesome to support both as there is a pretty large installed base of ANT+ hardware in the exercise / fitness demo.