OpenSHM: Open Architecture Design of Structural Health Monitoring Software in Wireless Sensor Nodes

Wireless sensor networks have been receiving an increasing interest in the field of structural health monitoring to provide rich sets of real-time information of complex structures. Due to the bandwidth and power limitation of wireless sensor networks, distributed data processing, damage detection, and decision making are appropriate for the development of wireless structural health monitoring systems, which requires wireless sensor units equipped with data processing and damaged detection algorithms. This paper proposes an open software architecture design approach for the implementation of structural health monitoring algorithms in wireless sensor nodes. The open software architecture design approach promotes software reuse and welcomes the contributions from research communities.