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- Tom Torfs, Tom Sterken (UGent) , Steven Brebels, Juan Santana-Corte, Richard van den Hoven, Chris Van Hoof, Nicolas Saillen, Nicolas Bertsch, Davide Trapani, Daniele Zonta, Paris Marmara and Matthaois Bimpas
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- Abstract
- A wireless sensor network is proposed for monitoring buildings to assess earthquake damage. The sensor nodes use custom-developed capacitive MEMS strain and 3D acceleration sensors and a low power readout ASIC for a battery life of up to 12 years. The strain sensors are mounted at the base of the building to measure the settlement and plastic hinge activation of the building after an earthquake. They measure periodically or on-demand from the base station. The accelerometers are mounted at every floor of the building to measure the seismic response of the building during an earthquake. They record during an earthquake event using a combination of the local acceleration data and remote triggering from the base station based on the acceleration data from multiple sensors across the building. A low power network architecture was implemented over an 802.15.4 MAC in the 900MHz band. A custom patch antenna was designed in this frequency band to obtain robust links in real-world conditions.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-3142264
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- Torfs, Tom, et al. “Low Power Wireless Sensor Network for Building Monitoring.” IEEE Sensors, Papers, IEEE, 2011.
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- Torfs, T., Sterken, T., Brebels, S., Santana-Corte, J., van den Hoven, R., Van Hoof, C., … Bimpas, M. (2011). Low power wireless sensor network for building monitoring. IEEE Sensors, Papers. Presented at the IEEE Sensors 2011, Limerick, Ireland.
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- Torfs, Tom, Tom Sterken, Steven Brebels, Juan Santana-Corte, Richard van den Hoven, Chris Van Hoof, Nicolas Saillen, et al. 2011. “Low Power Wireless Sensor Network for Building Monitoring.” In IEEE Sensors, Papers. New York, NY, USA: IEEE.
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- Torfs, Tom, Tom Sterken, Steven Brebels, Juan Santana-Corte, Richard van den Hoven, Chris Van Hoof, Nicolas Saillen, Nicolas Bertsch, Davide Trapani, Daniele Zonta, Paris Marmara, and Matthaois Bimpas. 2011. “Low Power Wireless Sensor Network for Building Monitoring.” In IEEE Sensors, Papers. New York, NY, USA: IEEE.
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- 1.Torfs T, Sterken T, Brebels S, Santana-Corte J, van den Hoven R, Van Hoof C, et al. Low power wireless sensor network for building monitoring. In: IEEE Sensors, Papers. New York, NY, USA: IEEE; 2011.
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- [1]T. Torfs et al., “Low power wireless sensor network for building monitoring,” in IEEE Sensors, Papers, Limerick, Ireland, 2011.
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