Effective Design of WSNs: From the lab to the real world

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This paper discusses main characteristic of a credible WSN. For instance, energy harvesting, robustness and topology changes are the main issues in WSNs.
It introduces solar cells as energy harvesting parts in outdoor environments. As an example in marine monitoring and rock fall forecasting.
It introduces and examines previous works in this area and criticizes that a credible WSN is not only a prototype working well in laboratories and it needs to still work in real harsh environments. Also it needs to use non hazardous substances according to RoHS.
As it mainly discusses about outdoor harsh environments like bay, ocean, jungle,… and solar energy harvesting methods, I did not study it all and just had a glance.

But the main point is that I found its references very useful to research about harsh environments and energy harvesting methods. E.g. one of the references is “Energy Harvesting Projects” published by IEEE:
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