Frogs and Wireless Sensor Networks

It is remarkable how studying a seemingly unrelated field can produce important insights. Researchers studied the calling patterns of tree frogs and developed matching mathematical models.

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According to the authors, “Those models qualitatively reproduced the calling pattern of actual frogs and were then helpful in designing autonomous distributed communication systems."

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-frog-choruses-wireless-sensor-networks.amp?

Frogs have had a lot of time to develop sophisticated communication protocols. Now the performance, efficiency, and scalability of IOT wireless sensor networks may benefit from their accomplishments.