METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING STATE OF MANMADE STRUCTURES Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC G08C17/00 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: method involves converting information received from sensors, transmission thereof to a structure analysis unit, generating and transmitting data metamodels to each of the remote nodes of a monitoring system. Sensor scanning results are graphically displayed on a virtual model of the manmade structure on the screen of the control computer. The apparatus has a system of sensors locally arranged on the facility and connected to a microcontroller, a transceiver of the sensor node connected to the microcontroller and communicating through a radio link with the transceiver of the network coordinator, an accumulator, a generator capable of converting energy of the medium into electrical energy and connected to the accumulator, a data base, a structure analysis unit connected to the data base and the control computer.

EFFECT: high reliability and accuracy of the monitoring system, based on wireless sensor nodes with integrated strain-gauges and accelerometers.

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