CONET, the Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence, is an EU-funded project that aims at fostering a European research community in the emerging domain of cooperating objects, i.e., wireless networks of embedded systems that perform a task in cooperation. CONET funds several research clusters, our group is active in the Resource Management and Adaptation cluster which addresses robust and reliable low-power wireless communication among static or mobile objects. In fact, communications in wireless sensor networks is challenged by external interference from transmitters operating in the same frequency range such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and by electromagnetic radiation produced by appliances such as microwave ovens.