Our suite of health and fitness iPhone apps include: iBPM+™ (Heart Rate Monitor), iRPM+™ (Bike Computer/Heart Monitor), iSPINNING™ ( a SPINNING branded indoor and outdoor cyclometer ) and iNewLeaf™ (a fitness system that can be calibrated to a users unique metabolism in a matter of seconds). Our wireless bridge, SMHEART LINK™, uses ANT+ technology enabling the apps to pick up data from distributed health and fitness sensors.

We are thrilled with the technology choice for a number of reasons:
1) Working with the people at Dynastream is a true pleasure. I view them as partners, not suppliers.
2) They have managed to put together an incredible alliance of members who have adopted their technology allowing for opportunities for members to collaborate and develop synergies for their businesses. The alliance includes industry leaders such as Concept 2, Garmin, Nautilus, Octane Fitness, Quarq, Saris (PowerTap), StarTrac, Timex and Trek, to name a (very) few. For a full list see http://www.thisisant.com/ant/ant-alliance-members.
3) The technology makes sense and works great. In the end, that is what our customers want.
4) Their model of encouraging interoperability makes great business sense.
5) ANT+ is here and now. We don’t have to wait! In fact, at iTMP we didn’t.

Continua is picking one of these technologies for LP-PAN to ensure interoperability between devices, modules, implantables, wearables and the like with mobile phones, basestations and other devices that will collect the data transmitted from them.

It is my understanding that some of the devices with the chosen wireless personal area network (PAN) radio technology’s chipset embedded) may be implantable devices. That said, right now the market is mostly for wearable biometric monitors like those used for advanced fitness applications (Nike+).