Internet based wireless Sensors network for Structural health monitoring
Abstract:
A localized information processing approach for long-term, online structural health monitoring (SHM) using wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Based on the Zigbee protocol, each sensor independently calculates a statistical damage-sensitive coefficient using the measured acceleration data during each monitoring period. A nonlinear programming formulation is developed to identify damage presence, localize damage position, and quantify damage severity from the damage-sensitive coefficients in the whole sensing field. By limiting each sensor to exchange information among its neighboring sensors only, a localized near-optimal algorithm is proposed to reduce communication costs, thus alleviating the channel interference and prolonging the network lifetime.
