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Re:Messy Networks for the Internet of Things by Animats on Sunday September 18, 2016 @02:53AM (#12524248)
"Daniel is co-founder of Beep Networks, a maker of location-aware sensors and systems for low-power wide-area networks."

The article is not about self-organizing ad-hoc networks. No, all the organization is at Master Control in the "cloud". This seems to assume that all nodes have solid connectivity to the "cloud", and are just leaf connection points for nearby devices.

That's what WiFi does.

Re:Messy Networks for the Internet of Things by dconrad on Sunday September 18, 2016 @01:30PM (#12526166)
Good point. I meant ad hoc tower deployment, not ad hoc mesh networks. Our topology is (mostly) star. Will update to clarify.