From the last few decades, a lot of research work has been conducted to develop wireless sensor networks (WSN) for wide variety of applications such as agriculture and environment monitoring, healthcare, military applications etc. Nowadays, the academicians and researchers are working on resolving various research issues in this technology domain. A few of the research issues faced by researchers’ are designing low cost and low power motes, network topologies, deployment strategies, and energy efficient data routing protocols. A lot of research has already been done in each of the mentioned areas individually but only a few research articles or literature discusses research work about two or more areas collectively. The existing literature explores the simulation work only and a few has given the description of complete design, development and deployment of a WSN. This paper presents the detailed discussion in form of literature review of each aspect of WSN design starting from mote design and ending to associated application. Since a lot of applications are using WSNs for monitoring purpose, this paper focuses on one of the most crucial application for livelihood i.e. crop production or agriculture domain.

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无线传感器网络：农业应用的节点，无线技术，路由算法和静态部署策略的回顾

在过去的几十年中，已经进行了大量的研究工作来开发用于多种应用的无线传感器网络（WSN），例如农业和环境监测，医疗保健，军事应用等。如今，院士和研究人员正在致力于解决该技术领域的各种研究问题。研究人员面临的一些研究问题是设计低成本和低功耗节点，网络拓扑，部署策略以及节能数据路由协议。在上述每个领域中，已经分别进行了大量研究，但只有少数研究文章或文献共同讨论了有关两个或多个领域的研究工作。现有文献仅探讨了仿真工作，一些给出了完整设计的描述，WSN的开发和部署。本文以文献综述的形式对WSN设计的各个方面（从节点设计到最终应用）进行了详细讨论。由于许多应用程序都使用WSN进行监视，因此本文重点关注民生领域最关键的应用程序之一，即作物生产或农业领域。