Imagine that you are a structure of valuable data, and wherever you are going needs to receive this data in order to keep up, be in sync with everything around. If you use your car it will be pretty similar as if you are using a point to point connection, what if you car breaks?
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/blog/show/top-tech-trends-for-2016-part-2-the-device-mesh