Open Garden has announced a new peer-to-peer mesh network for IoT devices, beginning with the Kickstarter-funded TrackR. Open Garden is best known for its FireChat app, which was published as a way of avoiding political censorship by way of anonymous peer-to-peer communication. This network architecture allows hundreds of Bluetooth devices to be backhauled to the cloud by just one internet-connected smartphone. When a user installed the FireChat app on their smartphone, they would become a node on a multi-peer mesh network. Communications between users would ride the mesh of phones until they reached the intended recipient. This allowed users to communicate on a network not controlled by a central government, and this political motive spurred the publicity of the app.…