I am currently using the nrf52 device for an application where when user's of my devices come close to one another, they automatically start sharing state information. There can be anywhere between 2 and 16 identical devices communicating to each other and they must know each other's state information every 0.1 seconds. The state data can be contained in 8 bytes.
Is there anyway to setup a simple ANT network so that all 16 devices can transmit state information and all 16 devices can receive each others state information at a rate of 0.1 seconds? Also device will come in an out of the network at random and for this reason I would like to avoid having a network master.
After reading the "ANT Message Protocol and Usage" in detail I am not sure if it would be possible for all 16 devices to be setup a masters on one channel that broadcast to all other 15 devices and have each device receive the broadcasted messages from all other 15 nodes on a single slave channel per device.
If ANT cannot do this, is there a different low power network type that can be used on the nrf52 device?
