The Call of the Wild WOTi

David Peck
Imagining an “Internet” of the Air (IoA)
2 min readDec 20, 2017

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Our new, new thing, the WOTi, is a thing with it’s own network that uses NASAs delay/disruption tolerant networking (DTN) and a simple, editable, block chain allowing stuff to hop from node to node with a little help from machine learning for recognition of the many „wild things“ and their authentication. A WOTi will be a “thing” of the Internet of Things — with it’s own delay/disruption tolerant low power wide area network (LoRa). A LoRa device’s signal could hop to a cheap 20€ 4g phone serving as a trampoline to a gateway, for instance, to a low orbit satellite. For this service, the phone owner gets a chronotoped token that pays for their 4 € monthly airtime bill.

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A WOTi has within it’s DNA it’s own passport onto wireless networks: it pays it’s own way with a “chronotope.” Think of a Chronotope as a token, or a coin with little bits of Internet “juice” that is both issued and widely accepted by MNOs, but also exchangeable p2p; MNOs love them, because chronotopes expand their capacity virtually. They just make it up, this issuance of this virtual internet juice, or airtime, but at margins greater than 40%. Because a WOTi “block” is partly “chained,” there is no need for a central clearinghouse, it’s all decentralized giving it the capability of universality. A universal WOTI using the interplanartary internet protocols!

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