Intelligent Sensor Networks

Chapter 4

Smart Wireless Sensor Nodes for Structural Health Monitoring

Xuefeng Liu, Shaojie Tang, and Xiaohua Xu

Contents

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Related Works

4.3 Background: Modal Analysis

4.3.1 Modal Parameters

4.3.2 The ERA

4.4 Distributed Modal Analysis

4.4.1 Stage 1: Try to Distribute the Initial Stage of Modal Analysis Algorithms

4.4.2 Stage 2: Divide and Conquer

4.5 WSN-Cloud SHM: New Possibility toward SHM of Large Civil Infrastructures

References

Because of the low cost, high scalability, and ease of deployment, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are emerging as a promising sensing paradigm that the structural engineering field has begun to consider as a substitute for traditional tethered structural health monitoring ...