The main reason for deliberately causing a lack of connectivity is to save power. Keeping communication hardware
in a receive state is a significant drain on the energy resources of small battery powered devices. A method to reduce
the power use of devices in sensor networks is to put the device into a low power sleep state for as long as possible. In
this state the device has its communications powered down so is unable to be contacted but will consume substantially
less energy. An alternative solution to this is to provide more energy resource to the device. Doing this limits the
options for placement of these devices as they will either require access to a power source or be physically larger
to accommodate the additional batteries. As a result this has become a trade off between connectivity and power
consumption.