Sure, we like the convenience of wifi once the signal is inside our houses.

FORBES: Free Internet From FreedomPop: Hands-On and Unplugged at Home

Grob said that finding that capacity will require three different strategies: increasing the number of antennas in handsets and inside buildings, getting access to little-used and unused spectrum and improving the signal-to-noise ratio of transmissions.

FORBES: Connect

Inside, Williams explains, is a receiver tailored to make use of a signal from an atomic clock carried by a global positioning system satellite.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Another mote inside that range picks up the first one's signal and grabs its data, adding readings of its own and passing the package along to a third mote.

FORBES: Sensing Opportunity