Quantifying the condition of aging structures is important to verify structural integrity and long-
term reliability. Structural health monitoring plays a key role in the prevention of catastrophic …

The design of intelligent autonomous systems able to sense, react and control the
environment or complex processes has been a long term research desideratum. By …

The introduction of mobile elements has created a new dimension to reduce and balance
the energy consumption in wireless sensor networks. However, data collection latency may …

A data mule represents a mobile device that collects data in a sensor field by physically
visiting the nodes in a sensor network. The data mule collects data when it is in the proximity …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been used for monitoring construction and
operation of civil infrastructure as well as industrial facilities and power plants. Their …

To collect data from large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a challenging issue and
there are mainly two approaches to increase the efficiency: 1) by hierarchical routing based …

Unlike traditional multihop forwarding among homogeneous static sensor nodes, use of
mobile devices for data collection in wireless sensor networks has recently been gathering …

This paper describes a method for collection of data from Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
deployed in large environments using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). Unlike existing …

This research investigates the field performance of flexure-based mobile sensing nodes
(FMSNs) developed for system identification and condition monitoring of civil structures …

The proper management of energy resources is essential for any wireless sensing system.
With applications that span industrial, civil, and aerospace infrastructure, it is necessary for …