Paper Info
Title
A Decentralized Damage Detection System for Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks.
Abstract
The unprecedented capabilities of monitoring and responding to stimuli in the physical world of wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSAN) enable these networks to provide the underpinning for several Smart City applications, such as structural health monitoring (SHM). In such applications, civil structures, endowed with wireless smart devices, are able to self-monitor and autonomously respond to situations using computational intelligence. This work presents a decentralized algorithm for detecting damage in structures by using a WSAN. As key characteristics, beyond presenting a fully decentralized (in-network) and collaborative approach for detecting damage in structures, our algorithm makes use of cooperative information fusion for calculating a damage coefficient. We conducted experiments for evaluating the algorithm in terms of its accuracy and efficient use of the constrained WSAN resources. We found that our collaborative and information fusion-based approach ensures the accuracy of our algorithm and that it can answer promptly to stimuli (1.091 s), triggering actuators. Moreover, for 100 nodes or less in the WSAN, the communication overhead of our algorithm is tolerable and the WSAN running our algorithm, operating system and protocols can last as long as 468 days.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TC.2015.2479608
IEEE Trans. Computers
Keywords
Field
DocType
Monitoring,Data structures,Vibrations,Sensors,Collaboration,Synchronization,Algorithm design and analysis
Wireless,Computer science,Electrical engineering,Actuator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
65
5
0018-9340
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.40
4
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Igor Leão dos Santos1685.46
Luci Pirmez229531.53
Luiz F. R. C. Carmo3253.77
Paulo F. Pires458762.83
Flávia Coimbra Delicato527232.77
Samee Ullah Khan6160581.01
Albert Y. Zomaya75709454.84