III. NETWORK DESIGN
WSNs enable continuous real-time capture of data. However,
WSNs need to be able to handle the harshness of outdoor longterm
condition monitoring; often in hostile environments and
must minimize energy usage as the nodes are not attached to
a wired power supply. They typically use low-power sensors
powered by batteries although authors are investigating alternative
power supplies such as local energy generation. Hence, the
network to enable data capture has to be carefully designed to
overcome these factors and prevent transmission errors, latency,
network outages, missing data, or corrupted data.