Paper Info
Title
ConcreteCom: a new communication paradigm for building structural health monitoring.
Abstract
Piezo-electric transducers (PZTs) as multi-functional devices can be effectively used both for sensing and actuation as well as for energy harvesting. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of utilizing PZTs as transceivers to communicate structural or control information via concrete conduits for building structural health monitoring. Extensive measurement study provides a detailed characterization of concrete channel properties. Using software defined radio technologies, we develop basic communication modules and successfully demonstrate the practicability of ConcreteCom, a new communication paradigm in support of data rate up to 10Kbps in our concrete beam testbed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2422531.2422555
BuildSys@SenSys
Keywords
Field
DocType
structural health monitoring,concrete beam,utilizing pzts,basic communication module,new communication paradigm,concrete channel property,data rate,piezo-electric transducers,concrete conduit,control information
Transceiver,Structural health monitoring,Systems engineering,Software-defined radio,Communication channel,Energy harvesting,Testbed,Data rate,Engineering,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. Kailaswar100.34
R. Zheng201.01
J. Kovitz300.34
Q. Phung400.34
H. Wang56725.36
Zhi Ding61574109.20
Gangbing Song726750.36