Monitored Alarm Systems

According to a 2009 estimate by the U.S. Society of Civil Engineers, more than a quarter of U.S. bridges are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. While newer "smart" bridges have embedded wired networks of sensors to their structural integrity, the high cost of installing such systems on existing bridges monitor is simply unaffordable for stressed city, state and federal budgets. Now University of Maryland Electrical researcher Mehdi Kalantari has a tiny, wireless sensors and monitors minute-by-minute data transfers on a bridge for structural integrity, which he estimates is one-hundredth of the cost of a wired network approach developed. .. Continue Reading Wireless sensor networks for monitoring the structural integrity of bridges

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Tags: Bridge, safety, sensors, University of Maryland

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