Abstract
To meet the growing demands to monitor our aging infrastructure, wireless smart sensor networks (WSSN) have been the subject of intense interest due to their versatility and low cost. However, the performance of commercially available sensors is not sufficient to realize the high-fidelity data required for SHM. In particular, synchronization among the wireless sensor nodes has been found to be inadequate for data intensive applications such as SHM. To this end, the Illinois Structural Health Monitoring Project (ISHMP) Services Toolsuite has been developed as an open-source framework to enable reliable SHM application. One of the services, RemoteSensing, was specifically designed to enable monitoring of civil infrastructure through accurate time synchronization and reliable communication. In this paper, the performance of the Imote2 wireless sensor platform using a commercially available low cost sensor board is validated directly against a wired sensor system, in the context of validation of its capability for high-fidelity data measurement for bridge health monitoring. A series of vibration tests have been conducted using human jumping to excite the subject of this study, a 76-m historic steel truss bridge in Mahomet, Illinois. The dynamic properties of the bridge have been obtained by the peak picking method for both wireless and wired systems and compare well; thus, demonstrating the efficacy of the wireless sensor system.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 93-101 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Advances in Structural Engineering |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 1 2011 |
Keywords
- RemoteSensing
- historic bridge
- structural health monitoring
- wireless smart sensor network
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Civil and Structural Engineering
- Building and Construction