DAMAGE DETECTION IN HERITAGE BUILDINGS USING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

Abstract

Old monuments and heritage buildings are important assets of the country and need to be protected and
conserved. Heritage structures are often characterized by their extraordinary architecture, design or material. The
conservation of such structure is crucial activity. The paper deals with the monitoring and static risk assessment using the
technique of dynamic parameter measurement in a broad WSN system. The historical building exposed to the traffic
vibration, which can induce stresses inside the material, as well as small seismic actions are vulnerable. Monitoring and
vibration risk assessment using WSN(wireless sensor network) system provides data gathering and decision making before,
during and after crisis event. The work deals with deploying wireless sensor network (contains MEMS sensor) monitors
damage in heritage building. The above shall be accomplished by hardware implementation (prototype). The monitoring will
be done by RF technology. The complete study would be based on Sarkhej Roza,Ahmedabad .