Described herein are embodiments of a hardware architecture and reference platform family for constructing large-scale, long-lived, wireless data acquisition networks. Embodiments of the device are designed to enable data collection, data processing, data storage, and data communication across a broad range of sensor, storage, and communication technologies. When deployed at scale, the devices form an intelligent sensing fabric that can cover a large geographic area with minimal power requirements at a low cost. While the architecture was originally conceived to suit the requirements of the Intelligent River™ program, the architecture and its platform realizations provide value to a range of industry segments, from agriculture and utilities to defense and manufacturing. For example, embodiments of the described invention can be used in applications such as resource management, smart transportation, precision agriculture, habitat monitoring, wildfire tracking, threat detection, smart structures, smart energy, smart-grids, etc.
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