Application description

Name	Make it catchy!	Industrial process monitoring
Traffic type(s)	Regular collection to gateway(s) Alarms/events to gateway(s) Burst/batch to/from gateway(s) Distributed/local-area processing	Regular collection Human query/response Alarms 50kB file upload
Data rate		1/s to 1/hour regular reporting
Scale	How many nodes? What different types? What geographic distribution?	10 to one thousand temperature, pressure, flow, etc. sensors in a metallic environment covering tens of meters to kilometers.
Topology, Spacing	1D, 2D, or 3D Regular, random, clusters, Min/mean/max separation between motes	2D and 3D random with clusters. 1m/20m/100m
Mobility	How many, how fast?	Wireless workers
Powered infrastructure	Is it available? Everywhere?	Occasional/sparse
Lifetime	How long, what batteries or other power supply?	3-10 years on C-cell lithium
Reliability	What fraction of the data needs to get through.	>90% to nine 9s.
Latency	Average? Upper bound?	Varies, from <1hour average to <100ms 99.9%
Security	Certification, encryption, integrity, authentication	Varies from “don’t want it” to “if someone breaks in people could die”
Size/cost	Is there a magic number where the application becomes attractive? A lower limit below which it doesn’t matter?	Anything under a deck of cards in size is fine. Cost < $100
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