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that sensor installation cost including labor, cabling, and recording systems is about<br />
$4,000 per sensing channel. The emergence of smart sensors with wireless<br />
communication capabilities, as described in the following section, offers the possibility of<br />
SHM with dense measurements.<br />
2.4 Attempts toward SHM using smart sensors<br />
2.4.1 Research attempts<br />
Several SHM applications with smart sensors have been reported using scale models.<br />
Demonstrated tasks include data acquisition with a single wireless node, synchronized<br />
data acquisition with multiple nodes, on-board data processing, etc. Tanner et al. (2002,<br />
2003) embedded data processing on a smart sensor unit. A Mica node was programmed to<br />
measure acceleration responses of a beam on both sides of its bolted joint and then<br />
calculate the correlation coefficient of the responses to detect a loose bolt. Lynch et al.<br />
(2002) implemented Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to reveal the five-story building<br />
model's response in the frequency domain. Nitta et al. (2005) implemented an AR model<br />
on the Mica2 and experimentally verified its validity on a three-story building model.<br />
These studies have briefly demonstrated the applicability of smart sensor systems to SHM<br />
applications using simplified models.<br />
Full-scale buildings and bridges have also been the subject of smart sensor research.<br />
Straser and Kiremidjian (1998) and Lynch et al. (2003) measured structural responses of<br />
the Alamosa Canyon Bridge to validate their smart sensors' performance. Galbreath et al.<br />
(2003) monitored a highway bridge on the LaPlatte River in Vermont, using Microstrain's<br />
wireless strain sensor unit (Microstrain, Inc., 2007). Aoki et al. (2003) measured the<br />
acceleration response of a light pole on the Tokyo Rainbow Bridge in Japan. The data was<br />
transmitted to a data repository using a WLAN. Chung et al. (2004) installed a DuraNode<br />
sensor unit on a pedestrian bridge at the University of California, Irvine. Wirelessly<br />
collected data was then analyzed on a PC to give the first three vibration modes. Ou et al.<br />
(2005) installed eight Mica nodes in the Di Wang Tower in China. Lynch et al. (2005)<br />
installed 15 smart sensor units on the Geumdang Bridge in Korea to measure the forced<br />
vibration response. FFT was applied to measurement signals on smart sensor nodes<br />
independently, and the Fourier transform results were sent back to the base station. In the<br />
geotechnical research field, Chen et al. (2005) proposed to use wireless sensor for MEMSbased<br />
vertical seismic array, called Terra-Scope. These research attempts have<br />
demonstrated the capability of smart sensors to measure acceleration for full-scale civil<br />
infrastructure, though the quality of data was not necessarily examined.<br />
Through the laboratory and full-scale structural applications, benefits in terms of the<br />
sensor installation time were reported. Straser and Kiremidjian (1998) reported that<br />
installation of the wireless system on the Alamosa Canyon Bridge took 30 minutes, which<br />
was five times faster than the cable-based system. Lynch et al. (2003) implemented smart<br />
sensor units on the same bridge, and the installation time was half the time to install the<br />
cable-based system.<br />
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