The device will also transmit information and receive information from other devices while they are not being used. They will "talk" to each other and the main server.
This will increase the data flow. Take a look at this diagram, it may help explain how this may work
Who will use the device ?
Just about every one.
Just as people use wristwatches to tell the time today.
The device will be so cheap to manufacture, that they will be able to be disposed of when the small battery they contain as a back up is no longer able to supply power.
The devices will work using systems such as WiFi, Bluetooth as well as more land line based systems when available.Even while a device is not in use by a user it could be used as a receiver/transmitter to bounce signals to a device in use.
Signal strength could there fore be reduced while maintaining higher band width.
Smaller packets could be sent to each device improving security.
Image of how devices may be linked.
Click to view Sending of Data Packets.
The main difference would be that each device would be able to transmit data as well as receive. If mobile phones and other devices are given an ability to transmit as well as receive they could be used as repeaters, and even as rooters. That is they could receive data, boost it and then transmit that information to the next device. This could be carried out while the device was not in use. As the devices become more popular the signal strength of transitions could be reduced making them even safer. Each device could be use to pass on a packet of data. With so many devices larger amount of data, e.g. video, could be split and each packet transmitted and reassembled for the user in real-time.