Environmental Wireless Sensor Networks This paper reviews recent experiments with networks for environmental and agricultural applications; it also provides a critical review of recent research and considers future challenges and opportunities.
Peter Corke, Tim Wark, Raja Jurdak, Wen Song Hu, Philip Valencia, Darren C. Moore · 2010
This paper is concerned with the application of wireless sensor network (WSN) technology to long-duration and large-scale environmental monitoring. The holy grail is a system that can be deployed and operated by domain spe- cialists not engineers, but this remains some distance into the future. We present our views as to why this field has progressed less quickly than many envisaged it would over a decade ago. We use real examples taken from our own work in this field to illustrate the technological difficulties and challenges that are entailed in meeting end-user requirements for information gathering systems. Reliability and productivity are key con- cerns and influence the design choices for system hardware and software. We conclude with a discussion of long-term challenges for WSN technology in environmental monitoring and outline our vision of the future.