Solutions used for monitoring district heating and cooling networks often require fixed electricity and extensive adaptation to enable wireless communication. This can make monitoring and surveillance of these networks expensive as these systems may require complicated installations. Another problem is that these environments can be humid which can cause the systems to malfunction. 

Monitoring of remote industrial assets face similar problems and monitoring of these valuable assets has previously been expensive and complicated. The same goes for air-quality and weather monitoring applications, where companies and municipalities have invested in expensive solutions that rely on fixed electricity or old protocols for wireless communication.