Motes in the jungle: lessons learned froma short-term WSN deployment in the ecuador cloud forest

Authors:
Matteo Ceriotti;Matteo Chini;Amy L. Murphy;Gian Pietro Picco;Francesca Cagnacci;Bryony Tolhurst
Affiliations:
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IRST, Trento, Italy;Dip. di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, Univ. of Trento, Italy;Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IRST, Trento, Italy;Dip. di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, Univ. of Trento, Italy;Edmund Mach Foundation, IASMA, S. Michele all'Adige, Italy;School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Univ. of Brighton, UK
Venue:
REALWSN'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Real-world wireless sensor networks
Year:
2010

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Abstract

We study the characteristics of the communication links of a wireless sensor network in a tropical cloud forest in Ecuador, in the context of a wildlife monitoring application. Thick vegetation and high humidity are in principle a challenge for the IEEE 802.15.4 radio we employed. We performed experiments with stationary-only nodes as well as in combination with mobile ones. Due to logistics, all the experiments were performed in isolation by the biologists on our team. In addition to discussing the characteristics of links in this previously unstudied environment, we also discuss the lessons we learned from operating under peculiar constraints in a peculiar deployment scenario.