Patent ID: 7796026

Claim:
A method for communicating information between a mobile object and an information receiver source, the method comprising: distributing a plurality of N radio frequency signal transceiver devices (“STCs”), indexed as n=1, . . . , N with N≧3, as a mobile object moves within a region, where the STC numbers n and n+1 are spaced apart no further than a selected distance D/K, where D is no greater than a maximum distance of reliable signal transmission between two STCs and K is an integer selected from the integers {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; causing STC no. n to transmit at least one selected information item to at least one of STC nos. n′=n−1, n−2, . . . , n−K, for n=K+1, K+2, . . . , N, where the selected information item is drawn from a group of items including STC no. for the original source of the information (referred to as the “source-STC”); location of the source-STC that is presently transmitting the information; temperature at the source-STC location; pressure at the source-STC location; concentration of a specified chemical or compound at the source-STC location; electromagnetic field intensity at the source-STC location; a visible light index at the source-STC location; average noise intensity at the source-STC location; peak noise intensity at the source-STC location; flux of nuclear particles (alpha, beta, gamma and/or ion) at the source-STC location; and estimated oxygen content at the source-STC location; and causing at least one of the STCs no. 1, 2, . . . , K to transmit the at least one selected information item to a signal receiver for analysis of the transmitted signal.