Demo: On the High Quality Sensor Placement for Structural Health Monitoring

Abstract—Sensor networks are widely used for structural health monitoring systems today. Existing studies on sensor systems from computer science community seldom take civil and structure factors into consideration. For example, the commonly adopted sensor placement schemes are still assumed to be random or on grids. We release an open source package SPEM, which, working as a black box, can evaluate the locations of sensor placement from the aspects of civil engineering. In this demo, we will first show how this package can be used by a few synthetic examples. We will show its indication for the designs of sensor networks to the computer science community. We will further illustrate SPEM with real structural data collected from our ongoing monitoring project of the Guangzhou New TV Tower. I