Title :
Design of a Multi-Modal and High Computation Power Wireless Sensor Node for Structural Health Monitoring
Author :
Chen, Bo ; Wang, Jinjiang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng. - Eng. Mech. & the Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Michigan Technol. Univ., Houghton, MI
Abstract :
This paper presents the hardware and software design of a wireless sensor node for structural health monitoring. The unique features of the presented sensor node are its high computational capability, multi-modal sensing, and the combined ability for both active sensing and passive sensing. The open software architecture design approach for the upper layer application software promotes software reuse and speeds up the development cycle by employing available numerical algorithms in open software packages such as CLAPACK and numerical recipes in C. The multi-modal sensing capability allows the sensor node having a broader view of the monitoring structure with integrated information from different types of sensors.
Keywords :
condition monitoring; software reusability; structural engineering computing; wireless sensor networks; active sensing; high computation power wireless sensor node; multi-modal sensing capability; open software architecture design approach; passive sensing; structural health monitoring; wireless sensor networks; Algorithm design and analysis; Application software; Hardware; Monitoring; Multimodal sensors; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Software algorithms; Software architecture; Software design; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Mechtronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, 2008. MESA 2008. IEEE/ASME International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2367-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2368-2
DOI :
10.1109/MESA.2008.4735683