1. A system, comprising: one or more motes, each mote being respectively operable to receive and communicate data related to at least one parameter; a computing device operable to communicate with the one or more motes, the computing device having a processing unit coupled to a data storage device; and one or more instructions loaded on the data storage device that, when executed by the processing unit, configure the computing device to: store an instance of data related to the at least one parameter from at least one mote of the one or more motes in a received data set in the data storage device; receive an input selection corresponding to a target-occurrence, the target-occurrence including at least one recognizable pattern of data received by at least one mote of the one or more motes related to the at least one parameter; in response to the input selection corresponding to the target-occurrence, search the received data set for data correlating to the target-occurrence; and when received data correlating to the target-occurrence is found, store the correlated received data in a retained data storage.