Paper Info
Title
LoRaWAN Battery-Free Wireless Sensors Network Designed for Structural Health Monitoring in the Construction Domain.
Abstract
This paper addresses the practical implementation of a wireless sensors network designed to actualize cyber-physical systems that are dedicated to structural health monitoring applications in the construction domain. This network consists of a mesh grid composed of LoRaWAN battery-free wireless sensing nodes that collect physical data and communicating nodes that interface the sensing nodes with the digital world through the Internet. Two prototypes of sensing nodes were manufactured and are powered wirelessly by using a far-field wireless power transmission technique and only one dedicated RF energy source operating in the ISM 868 MHz frequency band. These sensing nodes can simultaneously perform temperature and relative humidity measurements and can transmit the measured data wirelessly over long-range distances by using the LoRa technology and the LoRaWAN protocol. Experimental results for a simplified network confirm that the periodicity of the measurements and data transmission of the sensing nodes can be controlled by the dedicated RF source (embedded in or just controlled by the associated communicating node), by tuning the radiated power density of the RF waves, and without any modification of the software or the hardware implemented in the sensing nodes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19071510
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
wireless power transmission (WPT),wireless sensor network (WSN),simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT),cyber-physical systems (CPS),structural health monitoring (SHM),Internet of Things (IoT),communicating material
Wireless,Structural health monitoring,Data transmission,Frequency band,Electronic engineering,Radio frequency,Software,Engineering,Power transmission,Electrical engineering,Grid
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
7
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.49
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gaël Loubet120.49
Alexandru Takacs221.51
Ethan Gardner320.49
Andrea De Luca493.38
F. Udrea566.19
Daniela Dragomirescu68719.29