Smart mesh electrical socket

A system with a plurality of smart-mesh sockets, each smart-mesh socket within the plurality comprising:

• a bottom cap connector having a Universal Serial Bus (USB) plug that is sized and shaped to be electrically coupled with a USB receptacle;
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• a smart-mesh circuit that is electrically coupled to the bottom cap connector and that includes:
• a main circuit with one or more processing units and one or more memory components;
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• one or more wireless circuits that support multiple wireless communication protocols and that include one or more transceivers to send and receive communications with other smart mesh sockets of the plurality via a mesh network,
• wherein the one or more memory components store software instructions that, when executed by at least one of the two or more processing units, cause the smart-mesh socket to participate in the mesh network with the plurality of smart-mesh sockets and to participate in providing functionality distributed across the plurality of smart-mesh sockets via interactions between the plurality of smart-mesh sockets, and wherein the providing of the functionality distributed across the plurality of smart-mesh sockets includes at least some of the plurality of smart-mesh sockets being configured to track a user device as the user device moves within separate areas covered by respective smart-mesh sockets of the mesh network.

A system with a plurality of smart-mesh sockets, each smart-mesh socket within the plurality comprising:

• a bottom cap connector having a Universal Serial Bus (USB) plug that is sized and shaped to be electrically coupled with a USB receptacle;
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• a smart-mesh circuit that is electrically coupled to the bottom cap connector and that includes:
• a main circuit with one or more processing units and one or more memory components;
• and
• one or more wireless circuits that support multiple wireless communication protocols and that include one or more transceivers to send and receive communications with other smart mesh sockets of the plurality via a mesh network,
• wherein the one or more memory components store software instructions that, when executed by at least one of the two or more processing units, cause the smart-mesh socket to participate in the mesh network with the plurality of smart-mesh sockets and to participate in providing functionality distributed across the plurality of smart-mesh sockets via interactions between the plurality of smart-mesh sockets, wherein at least some smart-mesh sockets are each associated with a mechanical system and has capabilities to receive and implement instructions to modify operations of the associated mechanical system via a specified type of operation that manipulates an environment around the associated mechanical systems, and wherein the interactions between the plurality of smart-mesh sockets includes sending first instructions to each of the at least some smart-mesh sockets to cause the smart-mesh socket to control the associated mechanical system to perform the specified type of operation.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, by at least some smart-mesh sockets from a plurality of smart-mesh sockets participating in a mesh network, instructions to implement one or more specified types of operations in a distributed manner by the at least some smart-mesh sockets;
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• providing, by the at least some smart-mesh sockets based at least in part on interactions between the at least some smart-mesh sockets, and in response to the receiving of the instructions, functionality distributed across the at least some smart-mesh sockets to implement the one or more specified types of operations, wherein the providing of the functionality distributed across the at least some smart-mesh sockets includes the at least some smart-mesh sockets being configured to track location of a user device as the user device moves within separate areas covered by respective smart-mesh sockets of the mesh network,
• and wherein each of the at least some smart-mesh sockets includes a bottom cap connector having a Universal Serial Bus (USB) plug that is sized and shaped to be electrically coupled with a USB receptacle, and further includes a smart-mesh circuit that is electrically coupled to the bottom cap connector and that has a main circuit with one or more processing units and one or more memory components and that supports multiple wireless communication protocols and that include one or more transceivers to send and receive communications with other smart mesh sockets of the plurality via the mesh network.