Wireless sensor network used for structural health monitoring of civil infrastructure

Abstract

With recent developments in the field of wireless sensor networks (WSN), the author presents in this paper a solution for complex monitoring systems, that can be used to perform structural health monitoring (SHM) of different categories of bearing structures. As an experimental part of the author’s research activity, the author has developed a test system. The system under testing uses wireless sensors and the main contributions of the author to the research team’s efforts are customizing the hardware to deal with the time synchronization of information received from several sensors, dissemination of sensor configuration information, storage of acquired data and the development of a software application able to interpret and present mandatory measures that have to be taken in order to maintain structural health.