García Lesta, DanielCabello Ferrer, DiegoFerro Santiago, EstebanLópez Martínez, PaulaBrea Sánchez, Víctor Manuel2019-02-252017-08-01D. García-Lesta, D. Cabello, E. Ferro, P. López, and V.M. Brea (2017). Wireless Sensor Network With Perpetual Motes for Terrestrial Snail Activity Monitoring. IEEE Sensors Journal, 17(15), 5008-5015. Doi: 10.1109/jsen.2017.27181071530-437Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10347/18301Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly adopted in agriculture to monitor environmental variables to predict the presence of pests. Differently from these approaches, this paper introduces aWSN to detect the presence of snails in the field. The network can be used to both trigger an alarm of early pest presence and to further elaborate statistical models with the addition of environmental data as temperature or humidity to predict snail presence. In this paper we also design our own WSN simulator to account for real-life conditions as an uneven spacing of motes in the field or different currents generated by solar cells at the motes. This allows achieving more realistic network deployment in the field. Experimental tests are included in this paper, showing that our motes are perpetual in terms of energy consumptioneng© 2017 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other worksWireless sensor networksAgricultural pestsCapacitive sensorsZigBeeSensor applicationsjournal article10.1109/jsen.2017.2718107open access