Wireless sensor networks for structural health monitoring

Structural health monitoring is an innovative method of monitoring structural safety, integrity, and performance without otherwise affecting the structure itself. Structural health monitoring utilizes Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to detect the presence, location, severity, and consequence of damage. In many monitoring allocations, the conventional usages of WSNs are cases with low data rate, small data size, low duty cycle, and low power consumption. However, structural health monitoring requires high data rate, large data size, and a relatively high duty cycle. The scope of this special issue is in line with recent WSN for structural health monitoring. For the current issue, we are pleased to introduce a collection of papers covering a range of topics as follows: (i) design of a road scale system in wireless vehicle weight measurement system, (ii) design of a routing function in WSNs to obtain a stable routing path and prolong lifetime, (iii) design of a method to collect information about the behavior and position of event in the monitoring environment, (iv) design of an emergency adaptive communication protocol to treat the data packet in a discriminatory manner, (v) design of a monitoring system for the safety of building structure by using the semantic and the data fusion technologies, and (vi) design of a sensing data acquisition scheme for airborne clustering WSNs. As always, we appreciate the high quality submissions from authors and the support of the community of reviewers.