Paper Info
Title
Smart Bolts Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Network: Implementation And Performance Evaluation
Abstract
Structural and industrial environments use hundreds to thousands of bolts to hold parts together. For most mechanical systems, the bolts are critical components because they are subject to axial tension triggering various failures; for example, compromised screw threadsand/or vibration caused untightening. Severe damages can result injury of personnel, equipment damage, and even loss of life. Typically, monitoring mechanical tension of the bolts is visually performed with red dot bolts or manually inspected, but this process is expensive in terms of effort, time, and money; additionally, perhaps the accessibility of the bolt itself is very difficult. Changing this tedious monitoring process to automated, quick, and precise process is our concern in this work. Nowadays, wireless sensor networks (WSN) have wide range of applications especially in surveillance and monitoring systems. In this paper, we propose an efficient and power-aware technique to monitor bolted joints using wireless sensor networks. Also, due to the randomization placement of bolts in real world, our proposed mechanisms have been studied with different deployment node distributions (grid, uniform, normal, and exponential). Furthermore, we have investigated different scenarios with different probability of bolt failures to explore their effect on power consumption and network lifetime.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1155/2014/546517
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS
Field
DocType
Volume
Mechanical tension,Software deployment,Computer science,Loss of life,Bolted joint,Vibration,Wireless sensor network,Reliability engineering,Mechanical system,Grid,Distributed computing,Embedded system
Journal
2014
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-1477
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Uthman Baroudi111822.70
Anas Al-Roubaiey2528.49
Samir Mekid3345.13
Abdelhafid Bouhraoua4153.97
Yau Garba530.75