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Smart Structures and Systems
  Volume 11, Number 5, May 2013 , pages 511-531
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sss.2013.11.5.511
 


Remote structural health monitoring systems for next generation SCADA
Sehwan Kim, Marco Torbol and Pai H. Chou

 
Abstract
    Recent advances in low-cost remote monitoring systems have made it possible and practical to perform structural health monitoring (SHM) on a large scale. However, it is difficult for a single remote monitoring system to cover a wide range of SHM applications due to the amount of specialization required. For the remote monitoring system to be flexible, sustainable, and robust, this article introduces a new cost-effective, advanced remote monitoring and inspection system named DuraMote that can serve as a next generation supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system for civil infrastructure systems. To evaluate the performance of DuraMote, we conduct experiments at two representative counterpart sites: a bridge and water pipelines. The objectives of this article are to improve upon the existing SCADA by integrating the remote monitoring system (i.e., DuraMote), to describe a prototype SCADA for civil engineering structures, and to validate its effectiveness with long-term field deployment results.
 
Key Words
    structural health monitoring; SCADA system; remote monitoring system
 
Address
Sehwan Kim and Pai H. Chou :Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of California, Irvine, 92697, USA
Marco Torbol :Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of California, Irvine, 92697, USA
 

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