TY - GEN
T1 - A Wireless Sensor Network platform for structural health monitoring
T2 - Enabling accurate and synchronized measurements through COTS+custom-based design
AU - Severino, R.
AU - Gomes, R.
AU - Alves, M.
AU - Sousa, P.
AU - Tovar, E.
AU - Ramos, L. F.
AU - Aguilar, R.
AU - Lourenço, P. B.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Structural health monitoring has long been identified as a prominent application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), as traditional wired-based solutions present some inherent limitations such as installation/maintenance cost, scalability and visual impact. Nevertheless, there is a lack of ready-to-use and off-the-shelf WSN technologies that are able to fulfill some most demanding requirements of these applications, which can span from critical physical infrastructures (e.g. bridges, tunnels, mines, energy grid) to historical buildings or even industrial machinery and vehicles. Low-power and low-cost yet extremely sensitive and accurate accelerometer and signal acquisition hardware and stringent time synchronization of all sensors data are just examples of the requirements imposed by most of these applications. This paper presents a prototype system for health monitoring of civil engineering structures that has been jointly conceived by a team of civil, and electrical and computer engineers. It merges the benefits of standard and off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and communication technologies with a minimum set of custom-designed signal acquisition hardware that is mandatory to fulfill all application requirements.
AB - Structural health monitoring has long been identified as a prominent application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), as traditional wired-based solutions present some inherent limitations such as installation/maintenance cost, scalability and visual impact. Nevertheless, there is a lack of ready-to-use and off-the-shelf WSN technologies that are able to fulfill some most demanding requirements of these applications, which can span from critical physical infrastructures (e.g. bridges, tunnels, mines, energy grid) to historical buildings or even industrial machinery and vehicles. Low-power and low-cost yet extremely sensitive and accurate accelerometer and signal acquisition hardware and stringent time synchronization of all sensors data are just examples of the requirements imposed by most of these applications. This paper presents a prototype system for health monitoring of civil engineering structures that has been jointly conceived by a team of civil, and electrical and computer engineers. It merges the benefits of standard and off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and communication technologies with a minimum set of custom-designed signal acquisition hardware that is mandatory to fulfill all application requirements.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80051976963&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3182/20100908-3-PT-3007.00084
DO - 10.3182/20100908-3-PT-3007.00084
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80051976963
SN - 9783902661814
T3 - IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
SP - 375
EP - 382
BT - 5th IFAC Conference on Management and Control of Production and Logistics, MCLP'10 - Proceedings
PB - IFAC Secretariat
ER -