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Motes in the Jungle: Lessons Learned from a Short-Term WSN Deployment in the Ecuador Cloud Forest

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Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN 2010)

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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.

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  1. Fondazione Bruno Kessler—IRST, Trento, Italy

    Matteo Ceriotti & Amy L. Murphy

  2. Dip. di Ingegneria e Scienza dell’Informazione (DISI), Univ. of Trento, Italy

    Matteo Chini & Gian Pietro Picco

  3. Edmund Mach Foundation—IASMA, S. Michele all’Adige, Italy

    Francesca Cagnacci

  4. Biology Division, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Univ. of Brighton, UK

    Bryony Tolhurst

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  1. University of Duisburg-Essen, Bismarckstrasse 90, 47057, Duisburg, Germany

    Pedro J. Marron

  2. Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Isafjordsgatan 22/Kistagången 16, 16440, Kista, Stockholm, Sweden

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  3. Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point, S Block 1127 2 George Street, 4000, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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Ceriotti, M., Chini, M., Murphy, A.L., Picco, G.P., Cagnacci, F., Tolhurst, B. (2010). Motes in the Jungle: Lessons Learned from a Short-Term WSN Deployment in the Ecuador Cloud Forest. In: Marron, P.J., Voigt, T., Corke, P., Mottola, L. (eds) Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks. REALWSN 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6511. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17520-6_3

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