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📡 IoT Sensor Network: Bandwidth & Congestion (2D)

A top-down view of the same sensor-to-cloud queueing model as the 3D version: sensor count and transmission rate set the demand, a bandwidth cap sets the hub's capacity, and once demand outruns capacity you can watch packets queue, latency spike and the drop counter climb on a live scrolling load graph.

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This 2D companion drives the exact same queueing model as the 3D version — throughput = sensors × rate (capped by bandwidth), load% = throughput ÷ capacity, and latency that climbs sharply once load crosses 60% — but reads top-down instead of orbiting a scene: sensor nodes ring a central cloud hub, glowing packets bow outward as they travel node-to-hub, and admission becomes probabilistic once demand outruns the bandwidth cap, so packets you don't see arrive are the ones the drop counter is counting. A scrolling strip chart beneath the ring plots network load over the last several seconds against a 100% reference line, making the moment congestion sets in — and how it eases once you back the sliders off — directly visible instead of only numeric.

⚙ Under the hood

2D top-down IoT sensor-network lab: sensor count, transmission rate and a bandwidth cap drive the same throughput/load/latency queueing model as the 3D version, with a scrolling load graph and packets you can watch queue and drop.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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