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The WSN performance is studied over selected time periods during the network deployment time, based on two different TinyOS-based WSN routing protocols: commercial XMesh and the open-source Collection Tree Protocol (CTP). Empirical results show that the network performance is improved with CTP (i.e., 79% packet reception rate, 96% packet success rate and 0.2% duplicate packets), versus using XMesh (i.e., 36% packet reception rate and 46% packet success rate, with 3%\u20134% duplicate packets). The deployment cost of the 52-node, 253-sensor WSN is $31,500 with an additional $600 per month in labor and maintenance resulting in a cost of $184 m\u22122\u00b7y\u22121 of sensed area. Network maintenance during the first four years of operation was performed on average every 12 days, costing approximately $187 for each field visit.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jsan3040297","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,5]],"date-time":"2014-12-05T10:20:05Z","timestamp":1417774805000},"page":"297-330","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Towards Long-Term Multi-Hop WSN Deployments  for Environmental Monitoring: An Experimental  Network Evaluation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Miguel","family":"Navarro","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University Purdue University, 723 West Michigan Street, SL 280, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tyler","family":"Davis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 3700 O\u2019Hara Street, 728 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA"},{"name":"Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot,  Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6808-6558","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"German","family":"Villalba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 3700 O\u2019Hara Street, 728 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yimei","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University Purdue University, 723 West Michigan Street, SL 280, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiaoyang","family":"Zhong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University Purdue University, 723 West Michigan Street, SL 280, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Newlyn","family":"Erratt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University Purdue University, 723 West Michigan Street, SL 280, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xu","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 3700 O\u2019Hara Street, 728 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yao","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University Purdue University, 723 West Michigan Street, SL 280, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"393","DOI":"10.1016\/S1389-1286(01)00302-4","article-title":"Wireless sensor networks: A survey","volume":"38","author":"Akyildiz","year":"2002","journal-title":"Comput. 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