Structural health monitoring and damage detection can help people avoid emergency casualties and take preventive measures, and it is very important in practical application. After consulting authoritative information, the structural health often affected by the surrounding environmental safety factors and structural safety factors. This paper begins with the harm of the inadequate building safety and the factors affecting building safety. To detect structural health problems and avoid many kinds of disasters, three monitoring methods have been mentioned, two new building safety detection methods and a damage detection scheme, called wireless sensor network subsystem, global navigation satellite system technology, and ultrasonic flaw detection technology. The principles of three methods are mainly expounded, and their advantages and disadvantages are analyzed, by putting forward suggestions for future research prospects and giving some practical examples. Finally, it is concluded that wireless sensor network method is simple to achieve but the monitoring data is single; GNSS system has high precision but cannot be widely used; And ultrasonic flaw detection technology can detect steel damage single efficiency.