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This chapter proposes an extension of our preliminary work [1] to address COTS-based accurate and scalable Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems by means of WSN, trying to overcome most if not all of the limitations identified in this field, namely by: (i) using adequate synchronization between all nodes in the network; (ii) relying on standard communications protocols, while most proposals use IEEE 802.15.4-compliant devices that neither implement the IEEE 802.15.4 medium access control (MAC) nor ZigBee protocols; (iii) building upon a standard de facto operating system (OS) for WSNs platforms (TinyOS); (iv) relying on COTS technologies (more cost-effective); and (v) providing adequate scalability to monitor large infrastructures in an effective way, i.e., with a consistent time correlation of samples.
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Tennina, S. et al. (2013). Structural Health Monitoring. In: IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee as Enabling Technologies for Low-Power Wireless Systems with Quality-of-Service Constraints. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37368-8_7
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