Orchestrating wireless monitoring sensors, including registering each sensor with an orchestrator, generating, by the orchestrator for each sensor, a monitoring plan including a description of wireless channels and protocols for the sensor to monitor, and amounts of time that the sensor should spend monitoring each channel/protocol, attempting, by each of the sensors, to monitor the channels/protocols specified in the sensor's monitoring plan in accordance with the amounts of time specified in the monitoring plan, generating, by each sensor, an execution report including, for each channel/protocol monitored by the sensor, the actual time spent at the channel/protocol, the actual amount of data collected from the channel/protocol, and data captured from the channel/protocol, generating, by the orchestrator, a current coverage map indicating coverage of each channel over space and time, and further generating, by the orchestrator, one or more respective updated monitoring plans, based on the current coverage map.