Requirements, Challenges, and Summary of Hardware and Software Design for a WSN-Based SHM System

Compared to the short-term systems, a typical long-term WSN-based SHM system poses many challenges. In this book, without specifying otherwise, we focus on the design of long-term WSN-based SHM systems. In this chapter, we first describe system requirements. Then we raise a few challenges when designing such a SHM system using WSNs. Finally, we summarize the hardware and software design of our SenetSHM platform.