A measurement device in your pocket

The recent news item that a US university had used mobiles to track the movement of thousands of individuals generated a lot of interest in the press. The study, reported in Nature, took anonymised data from a cellular operator as to the movements of their users and concluded from this that humans are creatures of [...]

The Mesh Conundrum…

from Warnham
Mesh Wi-Fi is a hot topic, with commercial products, standardisation activities making good progress and much excitment about the potential for wireless cities using this technology. Onthe other hand, reserach commissioned by Ofcom suggests that the some of the claimed spectral efficiency and capacity advantages of meshes, particularly at lower frequencies and in mobile [...]