Patent ID: 7830805

Claim:
A method comprising: collecting one or more readings from a number of mote sensors of a mote network, the number of mote sensors at a number of mote sensor locations; emulating, using a mote interface to a system that includes the number of non-mote sensors, as a source or sources of one or more readings, a number of non-mote sensors at a number of non-mote sensor locations, increasing the accuracy of temperature readings during the emulating, the mote interface using the collected one or more readings from the number of mote sensors to calculate derived data values having an accuracy that is greater than the accuracy of the one or more readings associated with the one or more non-mote sensors; and observing using the mote network at least one of a behavior or a characteristic of the number of sensors and refining a selection of at least one of the mote sensors, the number of mote sensors, the one or more mote sensor locations, or the number of mote sensor locations in order to improve emulation of at least one of the behavior or the characteristic of the number of sensors.