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
Data rate
Scale	How many nodes? What different types? What geographic distribution?
Topology, Spacing	1D, 2D, or 3D Regular, random, clusters, Min/mean/max separation between motes
Mobility	How many, how fast?
Powered infrastructure	Is it available? Everywhere?
Lifetime	How long, what batteries or other power supply?
Reliability	What fraction of the data needs to get through.
Latency	Average? Upper bound?
Security	Certification, encryption, integrity, authentication
Size/cost	Is there a magic number where the application becomes attractive? A lower limit below which it doesn’t matter?
Other?