Payment reconciliation in mixed-ownership low-power mesh networks

A network device for communicating data in a mixed-ownership low-power mesh network, comprising:

• a battery;
• a wireless interface;
• and
• a processing unit coupled with the battery and the wireless interface and configured to:
• monitor packet traffic routed by the network device;
• identify an originator node address and a number of units of data for each particular packet of the packet traffic;
• and
• send, in response to a trigger, data to another network device of the mesh network that represents a total number of units of data routed by the network device for each originator node address;
• wherein the processing unit further configured to:
• identify ownership for each originator node address;
• sum the number of units of data for each originator node address with shared ownership;
• and
• send the summed number of units of data to the another network device with an identifier of ownership;
• wherein the processing unit further configured to:
• determine ownership of the another network device;
• and
• send the data that re resents the total number of units of data routed by the network device for each on originator node address when a fee for routing data the another network device is determined to be zero.