Energy-harvesting WSNs for structural health monitoring of underground train tunnels

Author

Cammarano, Alessandro ; Spenza, Dora ; Petrioli, Chiara

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Rome, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

14-19 April 2013

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Structural health monitoring is a vital tool to help engineers improving the safety of critical structures, avoiding the risks of catastrophic failures. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a very promising technology for structural health monitoring, as they can provide a quality of monitoring similar to conventional (wired) SHM systems with lower cost. In addiction, WSNs are both non-intrusive and non-disruptive and can be employed from the very early stages of construction.The main goal of this work is to investigate the feasibility of a WSN with energy-harvesting capabilities for structural health monitoring, specifically targeting underground tunnels.

Keywords

condition monitoring; energy harvesting; failure (mechanical); geotechnical engineering; railways; risk analysis; structural engineering; tunnels; wireless sensor networks; catastrophic failures; critical structure safety; energy harvesting WSN; risk analysis; structural health monitoring; underground train tunnels; wireless sensor networks; Ad hoc networks; Energy harvesting; Monitoring; Strain; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM, 2013 Proceedings IEEE

Conference_Location

Turin

ISSN

0743-166X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5944-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.2013.6566720

Filename

6566720