Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Healthy Monitoring Applications-A Design Proposal
Jian Xu, Wen Hao Wan, Kai Zhang · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2014
Due to the development of the wireless communication technologies, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming more and more important in Internet of Things (IOT). In this paper, we proposed a design of a WSN for the enormous constructions structural healthy monitoring. Based on the analysis of the past project about the WSN for the highway healthy monitoring, we propose a novel design that can be used to guide the design of the future WSNs for the structural healthy monitoring. The focus of the design is the hardware design and the network layer design between the hardware and the users. In this paper we consider that 1) the WSN could detect the parameters related to the structural healthy, 2) the network layer design shall be able to utilize advanced wireless communication technologies, 3) the WSNs shall be able to provide the monitoring functionality and easily be reached by the users.