It looks like TDMA was the focus of the experiment. They weren't that concerned with making the brake a commercial product, just in using the process of making it work reliably as a way to prove defining when and how each end of a wireless connection can talk should make any app work more reliably across a wifi link. In IT, at least, if the response is slow or the messages aren't getting through, they just add more replicators and send the same message more times. These guys showed that approach actually degrades performance. Might not be huge news, but I doubt it's front-of-mind even for most corporate developers.
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It looks like TDMA was the focus of the experiment. They weren't that concerned with making the brake a commercial product, just in using the process of making it work reliably as a way to prove defining when and how each end of a wireless connection can talk should make any app work more reliably across a wifi link. In IT, at least, if the response is slow or the messages aren't getting through, they just add more replicators and send the same message more times. These guys showed that approach actually degrades performance. Might not be huge news, but I doubt it's front-of-mind even for most corporate developers.