The Wireless Ad-hoc Network

Using Mile10 technology and RF wireless hardware is the ideal implementation.  Consider for a second that your household contained Mile10 enabled appliances and standalone clocks.  Below is an example layout of a household.  Each Mile10 enabled clock in the diagram is surrounded with a red 'communication range' circle.  From the diagram it is apparent that not all clocks in the household are within proper communication ranges of each other.  For example, the clocks in the bedrooms are too far apart to communicate.  The other clocks in the household between the bedrooms, however, are with in range of the two bedroom clocks and have the ability to relay time between the two clocks.  This type of network is called an Ad-hoc network.  Using a network of this type a very large, expandable, wireless network may be formed between Mile10 enabled clocks, with inexpensive wireless hardware, allowing them to continually maintain perfectly synchronized time!
 

An example Mile10 enabled household

The Master Clock

In a Mile10 network, the user specifies one clock to be the Master Clock.  All the rest of the clocks in the network strive to maintain perfect synchronization to this master clock.  Changing the time of the master clock instantly changes the time of the rest of the clocks in the network.  Furthermore, this clock may receive its time information from a reliable source such as the National Atomic Clock radio signal, or even the Internet allowing for an even more robust time network.  Adding these capabilities to only the central master clock allows the rest of the clocks to be manufactured using less expensive technologies.

Mile10 protocol also features Zone ID's which allows the user to uniquely identify one Mile10 network from another in the case where Mile10 networks overlap.  This prevents a signal from other households from interfering.

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