Internet of Things Low-Cost Long-Term Environmental Monitoring with Reusable Wireless Sensor Network Platform

The Internet of Things (IoT) provides a virtual view, via the Internet Protocol, to a huge variety of real life objects, ranging from a car, to a teacup, to a building, to trees in a forest. Its appeal is the ubiquitous generalized access to the status and location of any "thing'' we may be interested in. Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are well suited for long-term environmental data acquisition for IoT representation. Application requirements, such as low cost, high number of sensors, fast deployment, long lifetime, low maintenance and high quality of service need to be considered from the beginning to achieve a WSN platform optimized for a range of long-term environmental monitoring IoT applications. Also important, the low-effort platform reuse should be considered through all design levels, for the platform as a whole and for all its components.