Real-Time Bridge Health Monitoring System Using Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless sensor networks are becoming the essential part of the sensing, automation and process control systems. The structural health monitoring of aging highway bridges is important from the point of preventing economic losses, catastrophic failures and loss of human life. This paper presents real-time bridge health monitoring system for an urban Seven Hill Bridge in Aurangabad using fixed wireless sensors. The system collects the vibration data caused by seismic waves or external force such as running vehicles through wireless sensor network and then analyze the data.The system includes a fixed wireless sensor mesh network based on IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee technology for real-time urban structural health monitoring.