General Atomics, Inc.

Venkatagopal Racherla

Michael Dale Perry

Jaya L Jeyaseelan

James Laurence Taylor

David S Furuno

Naiel K Askar

A sensor network having a first command center and a first access node, comprising a wireless transceiver, coupled to the command center. The sensor network may also include a plurality of nodes individually comprising a wireless transceiver and a directional antenna, wherein each of the plurality of nodes is successively located in a downlink direction relative to the first access node, and is configured to wirelessly communicate via the directional antenna with at least one node of a first neighbor group in a first direction and at least one node of a second neighbor group in a second direction. In addition, a sensor device is individually coupled to at least one of the nodes, and is configured to provide sensor data for the first command center.

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Venkatagopal Racherla