On the design issues of wireless sensor networks for telemetry

The role of sensor networks in creating smart environments is gathering widespread attention. The work presented in this paper is inspired by a real application where sensor network are well-positioned as the underlying communication technology. We consider the design of a sensor network for automating the water meter reading units spread over some administrative region, and present certain inter-linked characteristics attributed to such a network under single framework. These are connectivity, surviving node failures and reducing overall latency. This paper investigates the plausibility of such a deployment and discusses general, application independent, heuristic solution based on a graph theoretical approach for efficient design of a network which incorporates the sought features.