alt Hacker NewsSome scary applications come to mind.
For instance, sprinkling a bunch of nodes + sensors in hostile territory should allow for gathering intelligence, guiding drones, setting of fuses...
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Keep in mind that this is a very low bandwidth, high latency mesh network. Great for sending short text messages, absolutely terrible for guiding drones.
ExpressLRS[0] (drone / radio control protocol) also uses LoRa, I wonder if anyone's tried mesh networking it…
Mesh networks are already used by both Russia and Ukraine to guide drones.
With the obvious solution of putting mesh nodes on the drones, foregoing the scattering part.
For everyone else, IoT is already there. And good old paying people to do things (the supply of dumb people never gets depleted).
...but also resistance in the context of authoritarian capture.
Line of sight needed, trivial to jam, power hungry, trivial to fox hunt. These are not boogyman devices. The real boogyman devices are the ones in space. Big militaries don't need things on earth to do any of the things you listed and way more.