Do sensor networks have favorable load characteristics for meshes, too? The one remaining criticism implicit in that OnLAMP piece was the notion that meshes place more load on the network itself, versus loading some specific and centralized resource like servers. Are sensor meshes low enough throughput to avoid any issues with that? I’d have to imagine that would be so, that you’d have very small amounts of data, pretty much constantly, but on a periodic rather than a continuous basis.

May day job involves automation, more for security than sensing, but we’ve looked into adding sensors onto our products. Think adding flood and fire sensors on top of being able to tell the state of secured doors and control their behaviors.