BATTERY-FREE BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY SENSING NODES FOR STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING OF CONCRETES

Abstract

This paper presents a Bluetooth Low Energy sensing node, part of a wireless sensor network dedicated to the deployment of a cyber-physical system for the structural health monitoring of reinforced concretes throughout their life. This fully wireless sensing node is designed to measure temperature and relative humidity, and wirelessly transmit the collected data in its network, as well as to be energy autonomous. For that, it is battery-free, able to cold-start, and wirelessly and remotely powered -and controlledover several meters by communicating nodes (other part of the network, assuring the connection to the digital world) via a radiative electromagnetic power transfer system.