One primary concern on wireless transmission is the power consumption [3].
The problem with other wireless transceiver like Zigbee and Bluetooth is the power consumption.
As the range of the transmission becomes longer, the module needs more power to transmit the data.
Another consideration also is the cost of the system.
In this paper, our group implements a low power 2.4 GHz wireless transceiver for soil moisture monitoring and
irrigation scheduling in agricultural greenhouse.
The wireless sensor network module was developed in our lab was low cost because our group used locally commercial components and design our own sensor and coordinator node circuit board.