Currently, there are many technologies available to automate
public utilities services (water, gas and electricity). AMR, Automated
Meter Reading, and SCADA, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition,
are the main functions that these technologies must support. In
this paper, we propose a low cost network with a similar architecture to
a static ad-hoc sensor network based on low power and unlicensed radio.
Topological parameters for this network are analyzed to obtain optimal
performances and to derive a pseudo-range criterion to create an
application-specific spanning tree for polling optimization purposes. In
application layer services, we analytically study different polling schemes
