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Abstract A new area is coming with communicating materials able to provide diverse functionalities to users all along the product lifecycle, during the design, manufacturing, use and dismantling phases. These materials can track their own evolution all along the product lifetime, gather helpful information and thus allow information continuum at all time and everywhere. Usually, these functionalities are fulfilled via the integration of specific electronic components into the material (wireless sensors nodes, RFID tags). The present paper forms part of this framework in considering that thousands of micro-sensor nodes are integrated into a precast concrete. Data management in the integrated sensor nodes requires Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) protocols development. We recently developed a data storage protocol, called USEE, for communicating materials. To extract this information, we recently developed also a data retrieval protocol, called RaWPG. In this paper, the performances of these protocols are evaluated on the case study of the precast concrete lifecycle management.