"Density and street connectivity also matter, but mixed use is the most important factor relating to physical activity and obesity, " said lead author Lawrence Frank , now a professor at the University of British Columbia.
We are extending the connectivity of the Net to a much wider world wide web that includes the manifold physical objects of the world, letting them speak back to software that makes sense of what those objects tell us.
These systems rely on just one or two physical connections to the Internet and then share that resource wirelessly from node to node, handing off connectivity in short jumps.