Every couple of years, multipeer connectivity has a moment. The technology, in its various guises, enables devices to form ad hoc meshes for carrier-fee internet access, and so plays well to the web world’s dreams of extending simple, low cost broadband to everybody, while sidelining the traditional operator. Now, interest in the technology has peaked again, on the back of Apple’s Multipeer Connectivity Framework and a new iOS application from Open Garden ‘ but its real potential to hit the big time, and change the balance of power with cellcos, is likely to lie in the internet of things (IoT). Connecting many devices per user, including wearables, cars and industrial M2M products, will impose new loads on traditional networks and…