Data Gathering, Storage, and Post-Processing

In this chapter we give an overview of the different components needed in an end-to-end wireless sensor network monitoring system. Using two case studies with vastly different data throughput we show selected examples of components commonly found in data collection networks and use actual deployments as motivating examples. Specifically, the Life Under Your Feet soil monitoring project focus on extreme duty-cycling and low data rate communications while the data center monitoring network RACNet emphasizes high throughput and efficient channel utilization.