Initial Validation of Mobile-Structural Health Monitoring Method Using Smartphones

The structural health monitoring system has made great development nowadays, especially on bridge structures. Meanwhile, most SHM systems reported were designed, integrated, and installed into large-scale infrastructures by professionals and equipped with expensive sensors, data acquisition devices,...

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Main Authors: Yan Yu, Ruicong Han, Xuefeng Zhao, Xingquan Mao, Weitong Hu, Dong Jiao, Mingchu Li, Jinping Ou
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-02-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/274391
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Jinping Ou
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description The structural health monitoring system has made great development nowadays, especially on bridge structures. Meanwhile, most SHM systems reported were designed, integrated, and installed into large-scale infrastructures by professionals and equipped with expensive sensors, data acquisition devices, data transfer systems, and so forth. And it is impossible to install SHM system for every civilian building. For this status, a kind of new idea for structural health monitoring using smartphone is introduced in this paper. A smartphone, with embedded responding SHM software and inner sensors or external sensors, can be used not only as a single wireless sensor node but also as a mini-SHM system. The method is described in detail, and then the swing test, cable force test in laboratory, and cable force test on an actual bridge based on the iPhone were conducted to validate the proposed method. The experimental results show that Mobile-SHM using smartphone is feasible. The realization of Mobile-SHM method using smartphones may be considered as a milestone in making SHM popular in the lives of people.
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spelling doaj-art-5efa487d25944648842b95efd9e17d4c2025-08-20T02:23:39ZengWileyInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772015-02-011110.1155/2015/274391274391Initial Validation of Mobile-Structural Health Monitoring Method Using SmartphonesYan Yu0Ruicong Han1Xuefeng Zhao2Xingquan Mao3Weitong Hu4Dong Jiao5Mingchu Li6Jinping Ou7 School of Electronic Science and Technique, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China CCCC Highway Consultants Co., Ltd., Beijing 100088, China School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116620, China China Academy of Electronics and Information Technology, Beijing 100041, China School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116620, China School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, ChinaThe structural health monitoring system has made great development nowadays, especially on bridge structures. Meanwhile, most SHM systems reported were designed, integrated, and installed into large-scale infrastructures by professionals and equipped with expensive sensors, data acquisition devices, data transfer systems, and so forth. And it is impossible to install SHM system for every civilian building. For this status, a kind of new idea for structural health monitoring using smartphone is introduced in this paper. A smartphone, with embedded responding SHM software and inner sensors or external sensors, can be used not only as a single wireless sensor node but also as a mini-SHM system. The method is described in detail, and then the swing test, cable force test in laboratory, and cable force test on an actual bridge based on the iPhone were conducted to validate the proposed method. The experimental results show that Mobile-SHM using smartphone is feasible. The realization of Mobile-SHM method using smartphones may be considered as a milestone in making SHM popular in the lives of people.https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/274391
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