TY - CONF A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias A1 - Köppe, Enrico ED - Urs Meier, ED - Bernadette Havranek, ED - Masoud Motavalli, T1 - Wireless sensor network for long-term structural health monitoring of buildings and infrastructures N2 - Damage commonly occurs in buildings when a component fails suddenly with a partial or total collapse as a consequence. This type of event leads to serious damage to property and if it is a bridge or a large hall, then people in particular are at risk. The often great age of bridges and the increasing volume of traffic (particularly heavy traffic) which they are expected to carry are in clear contradiction to each other. Thus the probability increases that the loadbearing capacity of a bridge decreases rapidly and often unnoticed with sometimes dire consequences. In order to prevent such accidents, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing is currently developing a special radio-based, self-configuring measuring system in cooperation with the Berlin-based ScatterWeb Company. This measuring system consists of a number of identically designed sensor nodes which are self-sustaining, need no wiring, can act as both transmitters and receivers and are equipped with a special sensor technology making long-term monitoring of buildings or engineering facilities possible. The sensor unit uses strain gauges for stress analysis and contains interfaces for additional sensors. The system in particular applies to buildings and structures for transport and traffic and large-scale industrial facilities, where a subsequent wiring installation is difficult or impossible. T2 - 4th International conference on structural health monitoring of intelligent infrastructure CY - Zurich, Switzerland DA - 2009-07-22 KW - Funksensorik KW - Sensornetzwerk KW - Schadensfrüherkennung KW - Strukturüberwachung PY - 2009 IS - Paper 365 SP - 1 EP - 5 AN - OPUS4-19748 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -