TY - GEN
T1 - A model for earthquake acceleration monitoring with wireless sensor networks in a structure
AU - Fujiwara, Takahiro
AU - Nakamura, Yugo
AU - Jinno, Kousei
AU - Matsubara, Taku
AU - Uehara, Hideyuki
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) technologies have attracted much attention to collect damage information in a natural disaster. WSNs to monitor temperature or humidity usually collect data once in some seconds or some minutes. Since structural health monitoring (SHM), meanwhile, aims to make a diagnosis for the state of a structure based on detected acceleration, WSNs are a promising technology to collect acceleration data. One concern to employ WSNs in SHM is to detect phenomena at a high sampling rate under energy-aware condition. In this paper, we describe a model for seismic acceleration monitoring, configured with multi-layer networks: WSNs, a wireless distribution system (WDS) and a database server, where the WDS is mainly operating in a wireless local area network (WLAN). Examining the performance in the test bed for the monitoring system, the results showed the system was capable of collecting acceleration at a rate of 100 sampling per second (sps) even in the fashion of intermittent operation, and capable of storing data into a database. We also suggest that the method using intermittent operation with appropriate sampling rate is effective in providing a long time operation for the system by considering in the response motion of a structure.
AB - Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) technologies have attracted much attention to collect damage information in a natural disaster. WSNs to monitor temperature or humidity usually collect data once in some seconds or some minutes. Since structural health monitoring (SHM), meanwhile, aims to make a diagnosis for the state of a structure based on detected acceleration, WSNs are a promising technology to collect acceleration data. One concern to employ WSNs in SHM is to detect phenomena at a high sampling rate under energy-aware condition. In this paper, we describe a model for seismic acceleration monitoring, configured with multi-layer networks: WSNs, a wireless distribution system (WDS) and a database server, where the WDS is mainly operating in a wireless local area network (WLAN). Examining the performance in the test bed for the monitoring system, the results showed the system was capable of collecting acceleration at a rate of 100 sampling per second (sps) even in the fashion of intermittent operation, and capable of storing data into a database. We also suggest that the method using intermittent operation with appropriate sampling rate is effective in providing a long time operation for the system by considering in the response motion of a structure.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2044929
DO - 10.1117/12.2044929
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84902162929
SN - 9780819499875
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2014
PB - SPIE
T2 - Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2014
Y2 - 10 March 2014 through 13 March 2014
ER -