WSNs for structural health monitoring of historical buildings

Authors:
Giuseppe Anastasi;Giuseppe Lo Re;Marco Ortolani
Affiliations:
Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy;Dept. of Comp. Engineering, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy;Dept. of Comp. Engineering, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Venue:
HSI'09 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Human System Interactions
Year:
2009

Citing 4
Cited 0

A Survey on Data Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks

ITCC '05 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'05) - Volume II - Volume 02
A wireless sensor network for structural health monitoring: performance and experience

EmNets '05 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors
A Holistic Approach to Decentralized Structural Damage Localization Using Wireless Sensor Networks

RTSS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Real-Time Systems Symposium
A survey on sensor networks

IEEE Communications Magazine

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Monitoring structural health of historical heritage buildings may be a daunting task for civil engineers due to the lack of a pre-existing model for the building stability, and to the presence of strict constraints on monitoring device deployment. This paper reports on the experience maturated during a project regarding the design and implementation of an innovative technological framework for monitoring critical structures in Sicily, Italy. The usage of Wireless Sensor Networks allows for a pervasive observation over the sites of interest in order to minimize the potential damages that natural phenomena may cause to architectural or engineering works. Moreover, the system provides real-time feedback to the civil engineer that may promptly steer the functioning of the monitoring network, also remotely accessing sensed data via web interfaces.