Remote Monitoring and Reconfiguration of Environment and Structural Health Using Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

In the era of Internet of Things, there has been an increasing interest in the adoption of emerging sensing technologies in the real-time applications such as Structural Health, environmental and Traffic Monitoring Systems. The wireless monitoring is gaining popularity as there is no wiring is required between the sensors and data acquisition systems. Recent improvements in GSM and micro controller technologies have led to the development of various Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems. The SHM should observe the context and provide reliable information about the integrity of the structure. There is a need for an embedded system with dynamic reconfiguration mechanism which can adapt itself to the unstable and ever changing environments of structural and traffic monitoring. The implementation of dynamic reconfiguration is still challenging for real time embedded system control software. The proposed framework should also support the combined deployment of two heterogeneous applications on the same WSN. The fundamental aim of this paper is to develop a real-time embedded system, which provides flexible and robust mechanism for monitoring and reconfiguration of environment and SHM.