Smart Sensing in Geotechnical Engineering
Keywords:
Civil Engineering; Earthquakes; Geo Tech; Slope Monitoring; SensorsAbstract
Wireless sensors and wireless sensor networks have come to the forefront of the scientific community
recently. The use of these sensors and the possibility of organizing them into networks have revealed many research
issues and have highlighted new ways to cope with certain problems. In this paper, different uses and applications of
such sensor networks in civil engineering has been surveyed. A huge number of special sensor devices has been designed
and deployed to ease the process of building and monitoring structures. As the ongoing interest for this research is
intense, we feel that a recording of these recent applications and trends will be useful for perceiving new applications, or
relevant research problems that will prove to be helpful in further progress of this field.