One of the design requirements for the networks that evolved into the Internet was the ability to keep functioning, even if some nodes or links were disabled or destroyed in war. The packet-switched ...

An ideal application for mesh networking is off-grid communication; when there’s no cellular reception and WiFi won’t reach, wide-area technologies like LoRa can be used to create ad hoc wireless ...

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Until recently, building an IoT device, such as one for asset tracking, meant choosing a single networking technology, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LoRa, or cellular 5G, based on application requirements ...

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