Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring

• Main Authors: Cao, Jiannong (Author), Liu, Xuefeng (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer communication systems.; Electrical engineering.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Computer Communication Networks.

This brief covers the emerging area of wireless sensor network (WSN)-based structural health monitoring (SHM) systems, and introduces the authors’ WSN-based platform called SenetSHM. It helps the reader differentiate specific requirements of SHM applications from other traditional WSN applications,...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Requirements, Challenges and Summary of Hardware and Software Design for a WSN-based SHM System
• Enabling Network-wide and Event-triggered Wakeup
• Design of Distributed SHM Algorithms within WSNs-A Cluster-based Approach
• Design of Distributed SHM Algorithms with WSNs-A Networked-Computing Approach
• Realizing Fault-Tolerant SHM in WSNs
• Conclusions. .