Infrastructural Health TrackingThrough IOT

Abstract

Critical infrastructure monitoring is one of the most important applications of smart city. Structural health monitoring (SHM) is the appealing field in civil engineering which offers the potential for continuous and periodic assessment of the safety and integrity of civil infrastructures. Data sensing is the core of any SHM, tracking the data anytime anywhere is a prevailing challenge. The objective is to monitor the integrity of the structures (e.g., buildings, bridges) and detect the locations of possible events (e.g., damages, cracks). In this paper a cloud-based health monitoring application that could detect damages in buildings is done with an IOT framework. IOT is the network of smart sensors that combines sensing and wireless transmission of vital safety parameters of buildings, to distant computing units which continuously do the processing and monitoring of these parameters. The data/information of the damage in building is collected using wireless sensor networks. The results are then accessed using connected clients like browsers or mobile applications in real time.