How the Internet of Things Could Aid Disaster Response

jfruh writes While the Internet has made communications easier, that ease had made us very dependent on the Internet for communications — and, when disaster strikes, power and infrastructure outages tend to shut down those communications networks when we need them most. But now researchers are examining how the so-called "Internet of Things" — the proliferating array of Internet-communicating devices in our lives — can transmit emergency messages via ad-hoc networks even when the Internet backbone in a region is inoperable.

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howCould(char *thing, char *action) {
printf("How %s Could %s", thing, action);
}

howCould("The Internet of Things", "Aid Disaster Response");
howCould("My Grandmother", "Save The World");