A method of forming ad hoc RSI hierarchical communication networks among
pluralities of wireless transceivers includes assigning to each of the
transceivers one or more common designations. A network organization
routine of the transceivers operates to establish hierarchical networks
based on the transceivers' common designations, resulting in a logical
network organization that provides efficiencies for acquiring information
from particular transceivers that share a common designation. Each
transceiver's common designation is used by a digital processor of the
transceiver to selectively receive data packets that are intended for
receipt by transceivers sharing the particular common designation. Such a
"common designation" network reduces power consumption and signal
interference thereby increasing battery life. Each transceiver may
include a sensor interface a query handling routine in communication with
a memory of the transceiver for serving as a dynamic distributed
hierarchical database system of information such as, for example,
sensor-derived information and time-sensitive information.