Abdulkarim, AOloyede, AAOlawoyin, L.A.Faruq, NOtuoze, Abdulrahaman2021-11-262021-11-262020https://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/7022This paper investigates the amount of energy consumed in different configuration for perpetual wireless sensor networks. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) represent an area of networking that become pivotal in many applications. The use of WSNs for the monitoring of environments, habitats as well as systems within industry and healthcare has made WSNs a crucial area of research within recent years. The principles behind WSNs involve the deployment of remote sensing and relay nodes, able to collect and transmit raw data for processing. Applications such as remote environmental monitoring present new challenges such as the prospect of developing networks that can operate perpetually to collect data for as long as possible. Simulation and theoretical analysis were done using the networking simulator DENSE. DENSE is presented to provide insight into what protocols and energy saving techniques can be employed to establish the possible feasibility of constructing PWSN. The results show that mesh is the most realistic due to its energy distribution and optimization over a large area for a great number of nodes; however, a small single hop based network can provide good result for energy consumption and packet success rates.enwireless networksensorenergyArticle