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The growing importance and widespread adoption of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technologies have helped the enhancement of smart environments in various fields such as manufacturing, smart city, transport, health and the Internet of Things, by providing pervasive real-time applications. In this paper, we analyze the existing research trends of Coverage, Deployment and Localization challenges in WSN with respect to Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods for WSN enhancement. We present a comprehensive discussion on the recent studies that utilized various AI methods to meet specific objectives of WSN, during the span of 2010 to 2021. This would guide the reader towards an understanding on up-to-date applications of AI methods with respect to different WSN challenges. Then, we provide a general evaluation and comparison of different AI methods used in WSNs, which will be a guide for research community in identifying the mostly adapted methods and the benefits of using various AI methods for solving the Coverage, Deployment and Localization challenges related to WSNs. Finally, we conclude the paper stating the open research issues and new directions for future research.