The ANT protocol is licensed to silicon manufacturers, embedded in silicon network processors and then sold to the developer royalty free. No integration of a stack is required, vastly reducing development time and supporting application backward compatibility efforts. A host MCU establishes and maintains a communication session to other remote ANT-enabled devices by means of a simple, bidirectional, serial message protocol. Basic ANT channel configurations require less than 1K of memory so it is easily added to existing non-wireless applications. ANT serial messages are a set of simple commands that reduce the code complexities of channel generation, pairing of devices, and data transfer.