Deploying Wireless Sensor Networks with Fault Tolerance for Structural Health Monitoring

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan ◽  
Jiannong Cao ◽  
Guojun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Fault Tolerance ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Structural Health

scholarly journals Wireless Sensor Networks Composed of Standard Microcomputers and Smartphones for Applications in Structural Health Monitoring

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 2070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Morgenthal ◽  
Jan Frederick Eick ◽  
Sebastian Rau ◽  
Jakob Taraben
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Modal Identification ◽  
System Level ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Structural Health

Wireless sensor networks have attracted great attention for applications in structural health monitoring due to their ease of use, flexibility of deployment, and cost-effectiveness. This paper presents a software framework for WiFi-based wireless sensor networks composed of low-cost mass market single-board computers. A number of specific system-level software components were developed to enable robust data acquisition, data processing, sensor network communication, and timing with a focus on structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. The framework was validated on Raspberry Pi computers, and its performance was studied in detail. The paper presents several characteristics of the measurement quality such as sampling accuracy and time synchronization and discusses the specific limitations of the system. The implementation includes a complementary smartphone application that is utilized for data acquisition, visualization, and analysis. A prototypical implementation further demonstrates the feasibility of integrating smartphones as data acquisition nodes into the network, utilizing their internal sensors. The measurement system was employed in several monitoring campaigns, three of which are documented in detail. The suitability of the system is evaluated based on comparisons of target quantities with reference measurements. The results indicate that the presented system can robustly achieve a measurement performance commensurate with that required in many typical SHM tasks such as modal identification. As such, it represents a cost-effective alternative to more traditional monitoring solutions.

scholarly journals Investigation of Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Wang ◽  
Yan Yan ◽  
Gui Yun Tian ◽  
Omar Bouzid ◽  
Zhiguo Ding
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Wind Farms ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Offshore Wind Farms ◽  
Structural Health

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are one of the most able technologies in the structural health monitoring (SHM) field. Through intelligent, self-organising means, the contents of this paper will test a variety of different objects and different working principles of sensor nodes connected into a network and integrated with data processing functions. In this paper the key issues of WSN applied in SHM are discussed, including the integration of different types of sensors with different operational modalities, sampling frequencies, issues of transmission bandwidth, real-time ability, and wireless transmitter frequency. Furthermore, the topology, data fusion, integration, energy saving, and self-powering nature of different systems will be investigated. In the FP7 project “Health Monitoring of Offshore Wind Farms,” the above issues are explored.

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