NetSHM

Project Overview

Structural monitoring is an important application area for wireless sensor networks. Recent work has examined the design of wireless structural data acquisition systems. But the eventual goal of structural monitoring, however, is autonomous detection and localization of structural damage. In this project, we design and implement NetSHM: a re-usable and evolvable sensor network system which can be used to implement a variety of structural monitoring techniques at a level of abstraction that structural engineers are comfortable with. NetSHM is a programmable system that allows civil engineers to implement and deploy SHM techniques without having to understand the intricacies of wireless sensor networking.

Peoples

Publications

Krishna Chintalapudi, Jeongyeup Paek, Nupur Kothari, Sumit Rangwala, John Caffrey, Ramesh Govindan, Erik Johnson, Sami Masri, Monitoring Civil Structures with a Wireless Sensor Network , IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2006.

Krishna Chintalapudi, Jeongyeup Paek, Omprakash Gnawali, Tat Fu, Karthik Dantu, John Caffrey, Ramesh Govindan, Erik Johnson, Structural Damage Detection and Localization Using NetSHM, In: Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks: Special track on Sensor Platform Tools and Design Methods for Networked Embedded Systems (IPSN/SPOTS'06), Nashville, TN, April 2006. [PDF] [Abstract]

Krishna Chintalapudi, Jeongyeup Paek, Ramesh Govindan, Erik Johnson, Embedded Sensing of Structures: A Reality Check, In: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA2005), Hong Kong, August 2005. [PDF]

K. Chintalapudi, E. A. Johnson, R. Govindan, Structural Damage Detection using Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks, In: Proc. of 13th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, pp. 27-29, Cyprus, June 2005.

Krishna Kant Chintalapudi, Jeongyeup Paek, Omprakash Gnawali, Tat Fu, Karthik Dantu, John Caffrey, Ramesh Govindan, Erik Johnson, Structural Damage Detection and Localization Using NetSHM, No. 05-866, May 2005. [PDF]

Posters and Presentations

Jeongyeup Paek, Embedded Sensing of Structures: A Reality Check, August 2005. [PPT]

Software

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Hardware Requirement

NetSHM requires the following hardwares:

Future work


Last Modified: Mar 6 2006