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Apr 26, 2012

High-Rate Sensing in Wireless Structure Monitoring Systems

Publication: Earth & Space 2008: Engineering, Science, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments

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In this paper, we present a feasibility study of high-rate sensing using off-shelf wireless sensor platforms for wireless structure monitoring. The objective is to determine the key system parameters and components that limit the performance of high-rate sensing applications and provide first-hand information on design tradeoffs faced in operational systems. For the measurement studies of data bandwidth, we have identified the bottleneck of the data path as the UART communication at the sink node. Implementations of high-layer abstractions in TinyOS are shown to be inefficient in turnaround time compared to native interfaces. Finally, the wireless-based solution is shown to have comparable fidelity as wire-based approaches for mid-range sampling rates.

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Earth & Space 2008: Engineering, Science, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012

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Amit Pendharkar [email protected]
University of Houston, Houston, Tx 77204. E-mail: [email protected]
Claudio Olmi [email protected]
University of Houston, Houston, Tx 77204. E-mail: [email protected]
University of Houston, Houston, Tx 77204. E-mail: [email protected]
Gangbing Song [email protected]
University of Houston, Houston, Tx 77204. E-mail: [email protected]

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