Geographical Area Network—Structural Health Monitoring Utility Computing Model

<div><p>In view of intensified disasters and fatalities caused by natural phenomena and geographical expansion, there is a pressing need for a more effective environment logging for a better management and urban planning. This paper proposes a novel utility computing model (UCM) for stru...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hasan Tariq (18131842) (author)
Other Authors: Anas Tahir (18131845) (author), Farid Touati (1556026) (author), Mohammed Abdulla E. Al-Hitmi (18131848) (author), Damiano Crescini (18131851) (author), Adel Ben Manouer (18131854) (author)
Published: 2019
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:<div><p>In view of intensified disasters and fatalities caused by natural phenomena and geographical expansion, there is a pressing need for a more effective environment logging for a better management and urban planning. This paper proposes a novel utility computing model (UCM) for structural health monitoring (SHM) that would enable dynamic planning of monitoring systems in an efficient and cost-effective manner in form of a SHM geo-informatics system. The proposed UCM consists of networked SHM systems that send geometrical SHM variables to SHM-UCM gateways. Every gateway is routing the data to SHM-UCM servers running a geo-spatial patch health assessment and prediction algorithm. The inputs of the prediction algorithm are geometrical variables, environmental variables, and payloads. The proposed SHM-UCM is unique in terms of its capability to manage heterogeneous SHM resources. This has been tested in a case study on Qatar University (QU) in Doha Qatar, where it looked at where SHM nodes are distributed along with occupancy density in each building. This information was taken from QU routers and zone calculation models and were then compared to ideal SHM system data. Results show the effectiveness of the proposed model in logging and dynamically planning SHM.</p><p> </p></div><h2>Other Information</h2> <p> Published in: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information<br> License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8030154" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8030154</a></p>