Cost effective wireless Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring

Cost effective wireless Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring

 

Monitoring the performance of civil structures calls for an immediate attention. Current commercial monitoring systems suffer from various technological and economic limitations that prevent their widespread adoption. The extensive wiring used to route measurements from system sensors to the centralized data server represent one of the greatest limitations.

The low cost wireless communications appears to be the best alternative, resulting in the design of a prototype wireless sensing unit. A more intelligent incorporation in the wireless sensing unit would be the use of microcontrollers for computational power.

 

Approach:

 

The architectural design of the wireless sensing unit, as shown in Figure, is divided into three major subsystems: sensor interface, computational core, and wireless communications.

 

 

 

Facilitator:

Arun Kr. Singh

Department of Computer Science &l Engineering,

Indian Institute Of Technology,Delhi