My current setup used a regular polling of the sensors to collect and update the environmental information. This was the easiest way to do it during development of the prototypes. The Ethersex-Framework provided all the functions necessary to run a webserver that could be reached via the 433 MHz transceiver (which is a pretty cool feature, BTW!). But of course HTTP adds a lot(!) of overhead to the payload data.
I now changing that polling method to something more efficient. Reading out HTTP is fine for fast progress during development, as you can use all the standard commandline tools like curl, cut, tail etc.. but is wont scale.
In general polling itself does not scale. When you think of running a battery operated sensor node, its just impossible to have the webserver reachable wireless all the time. What you need is an event-driven communication, where the senor wakes up upon an event or regularly, transmits its information and then goes back to low-power-suspend until next time. Only this way of operation will ensure an acceptable battery lifetime.
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