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Wind and Structures Volume 20, Number 6, June 2015 , pages 739-749 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/was.2015.20.6.739 |
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A wireless high-frequency anemometer instrumentation system for field measurements |
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Guoqing Huang, Liuliu Peng, Yanwen Su, Haili Liao and Mingshui Li
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| Abstract | ||
| Field measurement of wind characteristics is of great significance for the wind engineering community. High-frequency anemometers such as ultrasonic anemometers are widely used to obtain the high-frequency fluctuating wind speed time history. However, conventional instrumentation systems may suffer from low efficiency, non-real time transmission and higher maintenance cost, and thus are not very appropriate in the field measurement of strong winds in remote areas such as mountain valleys. In order to improve the field measurement performance in those remote areas, a wireless high-frequency anemometer instrumentation system for field measurement has been developed. In this paper, the architecture of the proposed instrumentation system, and measured data transmission and treatment will be presented firstly. Then a comparison among existing instrumentation systems and the proposed one is made. It shows that the newly-developed system has considerable advantages. Furthermore, the application of this system to the bridge site located in the mountain valley is discussed. Finally, typical samples of measured data from this area are presented. It can be expected that the proposed system has a great application potential in the wind field measurement for remote areas such as the mountainous or island or coastal area, and hazardous structures such as ultra-voltage transmission tower, due to its real-time transmission, low cost and no manual collection of data and convenience. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| field measurement; high-frequency anemometers; data wireless transmission; General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network; cloud server; mountain area | ||
| Address | ||
| Guoqing Huang, Liuliu Peng, Yanwen Su, Haili Liao and Mingshui Li: Research Center for Wind Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610031, China | ||