Title
The hitchhiker's guide to successful wireless sensor network deployments
Abstract
The successful deployment of a wireless sensor network is a difficult task, littered with traps and pitfalls. Even a functional network does not guarantee gathering meaningful data. In SensorScope, with its multiple campaigns in various environments (e.g., urban, high-mountain), we have acquired much knowledge in planning, conducting, and managing real-world sensor network deployments. In this paper, we share our experience by stepping through the entire process, from the preparatory hard- and software development to the actual field deployment. Illustrated by numerous real-life examples, excerpted from our own experience, we point out many potential problems along this way and their possible solutions. We also indicate the importance of a close interaction with the end-user community in planning and running the network, and finally exploiting the data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1460412.1460418
SenSys
Keywords
Field
DocType
successful deployment,real-world sensor network deployment,own experience,meaningful data,end-user community,wireless sensor network,functional network,actual field deployment,close interaction,successful wireless,difficult task,environmental monitoring,sensor networks,software development,architecture,deployment,sensor network,implementation
Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Architecture,Software deployment,Computer science,Computer network,Mobile wireless sensor network,Wireless sensor network,Software development
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
112
5.94
18
Authors
4
Search Limit
100112
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guillermo Barrenetxea141427.80
François Ingelrest239023.34
Gunnar Schaefer334719.27
Martin Vetterli4139262397.68