[charliefg]

I heard about this one company that had a similar idea but implemented it via a high frequency acoustic signature; the higher the frequency the stronger the encryption. It apparently turned into this nightmare of competing signatures and people couldn't think straight near the more secure connections. This scent technology seems to be less intrusive.

When you get different scents, will the wiffi emitters automatically sychronised with other nearby emitters so the distinct carrier smells don't interact and cause service ambiguity?

[tomjhill]

Can you remember the name of the company who tried it with high frequency acoustic signatures?

Nice idea! Ambiguity isn't something we have encountered so far during testing. It's something we are looking into though.

The plan is to eventually 'poison' the scent with a bad smell if there is somebody trying to spoof the hotspot or if the connection is compromised.