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Written by WSN Guru
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 New York state has funded a Clarkson University research project to remotely monitor health of the bridges. If the pilot works out well then monitoring the structural integrity of New York state bridges could become a model for wireless sensor networks nationwide. I guess the failure of the bridge in Minneapolis last week could lead to more state and local governments funding such systems for bridge monitoring. After all, WSNs provide a low cost system for remote monitoring of the bridges.
According to Clarkson Univeristy press release, Kerop Janoyan, associate professor of civ il and environmental engineering, has been working with the New York State Department of Transportation and the St. Lawrence County Highway Department to monitor bridges across the county and state. Professor Janoyan, operating under a state-funded research grant, has developed a system that allows for remote monitoring of bridges using a dense network of wireless sensors. The work is part of an effort to increase the way state and county departments of transportation in New York State keep track of its bridge inventory.
Janoyan says traditional wired instrumentation of a bridge is often not feasible due to time and cost constraints. Now, the bridge can be instrumented using a low-cost and automatic system for structural health monitoring and condition assessment. A bridge on Wright Road just off Route 11 between Canton and Potsdam, New York, was recently instrumented with 40 channels of sensors and data was retrieved in real-time at a base station. You can read more about Janoyan work at http://www.clarkson.edu/~kerop .
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Last Updated ( Monday, 20 August 2007 )
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