B. Turbine Area Network Results
We used OPNET modeler to evaluate and the network performance for the proposed architectures. Figure 9 shows the OPNET model for the turbine area network (only meteorological data). The total received data at the coordinator node is 226 Bytes, which agrees to our calculation in Table 1. The left part of Fig. 9 shows the ZigBee-based network model of the wind turbine. There are five end devices represent the sensor nodes and one coordinator. The network is configured as a star topology.