R. Ceravolo, G. De Lucia, M. Pecorelli, L. Zanotti Fragonara
{"title":"Monitoring of historical buildings: Project of a dynamic monitoring system for the world's largest elliptical dome","authors":"R. Ceravolo, G. De Lucia, M. Pecorelli, L. Zanotti Fragonara","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175862","url":null,"abstract":"The Basilica “Regina Montis Regalis” at Vicoforte is a monument of great historical and architectural significance, owing its fame to its big masonry elliptical dome, the largest of this shape the world over. The dome-drum system has suffered over the years from significant structural problems, due to its bold structural configuration and to progressive soil settlements. In 1983, concerns over the severe settlement and cracking phenomena affecting the structure prompted the decision to undertake inspection, monitoring, and strengthening interventions. A static monitoring system was thus set up to measure strains and stresses in the structure, crack propagation, as well as stresses in the reinforcing bars. In recent years, a thorough renovation of the monitoring system was carried out in the frame of a new and updated program of investigation and research. This program also led to the definition of the project for a new seismic and dynamic monitoring system, which constitutes the object of the present paper.","PeriodicalId":346259,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS) Proceedings","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124237864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Fanchenko, A. Baranov, A. Savkin, A. Petukhov, Karina Kalinina, Bizhigit Zhurtanov, Mikhail Velikotny
{"title":"Non-dispersive LED-based methane open path detector capabilities","authors":"S. Fanchenko, A. Baranov, A. Savkin, A. Petukhov, Karina Kalinina, Bizhigit Zhurtanov, Mikhail Velikotny","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175868","url":null,"abstract":"Development of the new light sources for middle infrared region opened new perspectives for methane detection. Possibilities of non-dispersive infra-red open path methane detector operating at 2.3 μm wavelength are discussed. Analytical model of NDIR methane sensor is considered and detector calibration curve for LEDs is presented. The effects of the influence of the methane concentration and the atmospheric precipitations on detector sensitivity are discussed.","PeriodicalId":346259,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS) Proceedings","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114877269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forecasting data centers power consumption with the Holt-Winters method","authors":"M. Rossi, D. Brunelli","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175879","url":null,"abstract":"Data centers are rapidly increasing in the last few years and this trend will continue in the future due to the market demand for virtual infrastructures, cloud services and IoT applications. The whole ICT sector is faced with an energy efficiency challenge and data centers represent a significant share of all ICT-related emissions. Improving energy efficiency has therefore become a critical objective for ICT infrastructures and equipment suppliers. To mitigate the electrical energy demand used both for computing and for cooling, many scheduling and planning methods have been proposed. All of them can benefit from accurate predictions of the workload. In this paper we demonstrate how forecasting tools can remarkably increase the energy efficiency of a data center.","PeriodicalId":346259,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS) Proceedings","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134210501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roberto Sanz, Alvaro Corredera, J. Hernández, Jesus Samiengo, Julia Vicente, L. Bujedo
{"title":"Towards the integration of monitoring systems to support the evaluation of nearly Zero Energy Buildings through Key Performance Indicators","authors":"Roberto Sanz, Alvaro Corredera, J. Hernández, Jesus Samiengo, Julia Vicente, L. Bujedo","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175858","url":null,"abstract":"Monitoring systems are one of the pivotal diagnosis tools for the analysis of the energy performance in buildings. They provide on-site information and support the decision making process. Moreover, monitoring systems allow the calculation of energy and comfort indicators, despite, large buildings do not provide a single sensor network. So, with the aim of integrating multiple monitoring systems to support the energy assessment, this paper presents a combination of thereof into a nearly Zero Energy Building in order to evaluate a set of Key Performance Indicators. This study demonstrates the importance of monitoring systems and how they support the automatic calculation of aggregated values in terms of indicators to determine the building performance, thus detecting the malfunctioning of the facilities so as to reduce the energy consumption and CO2 emissions.","PeriodicalId":346259,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS) Proceedings","volume":"202 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132277534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uncertainty evaluation of after-earthquake damage detection strategy","authors":"D. Trapani, Andrea Maroni, E. Debiasi, D. Zonta","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175864","url":null,"abstract":"After-earthquake assessment of buildings in terms of safety and usability is nowadays performed by technicians who are called to give their judgement based on in-field surveys and visual inspections, often conducting the surveys in the absence of objective data. This implies additional inconvenience for residents and economic losses in the affected area. A near real-time assessment based on objective data related to the seismic response of the structures is possible through the use of monitoring systems that provide observations on the state of the monitored structure, obtaining information on its dynamic response. One of the most reliable parameters that can be correlated to the state of a structure after an earthquake is the ductility demand, expressed in terms of interstory drift. Using acceleration time-history records from the ITACA (Italian Accelerometric Archive) strong-motion database, we investigate the main sources of uncertainties in the estimation of displacement time-histories and interstory drift, using the method of double integration of the acceleration measurements alone. We have found that in general the instrumental uncertainties have less importance than the uncertainties of the model, in particular in the presence of residual displacements at the end of the seismic motion.","PeriodicalId":346259,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS) Proceedings","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125864671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Di Lecce, A. Giove, Alessandro Quarto, D. Soldo, F. Di Lecce
{"title":"Social isolation monitoring system via AI approach","authors":"V. Di Lecce, A. Giove, Alessandro Quarto, D. Soldo, F. Di Lecce","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175887","url":null,"abstract":"H2020 policy objectives are mainly oriented to social inclusion, in this regard, particular attention is given to better public services for seniors. Due to the high costs of hospitalization, the home care as well as specialized training should be preferable both for reducing public expenditure and improving the physical and psychological well-being of elderly people. In this paper an ICT tool for elderly people (or peoples with psychic, sensory, neuromotor and disabilities) is presented. Aim of this tool is to form a bridge between senior citizen and new technologies, thus overcoming the well-known rejection of “technology with unknown implications”. At the same time the presented tool is suitable to identify variations of the senior ability while doing specific actions just for by evaluating a social isolation parameter.","PeriodicalId":346259,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS) Proceedings","volume":"17 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125049514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Roia, F. Gara, E. Speranza, L. Gioiella, L. Dezi
{"title":"Operational modal analysis on a r.c. building for the evaluation of the dynamic changes due to retrofitting","authors":"D. Roia, F. Gara, E. Speranza, L. Gioiella, L. Dezi","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175863","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the changes of the modal parameters of a r.c frame building sited in Camerino, Italy. Operational modal analysis were performed before and after the seismic retrofitting of the building achieved with an innovative system that uses external steel towers equipped with dissipative devices. Before retrofitting, ambient vibration tests were carried out with the aim of evaluating the actual linear dynamic behavior of the building including the contribution of non-structural components (e.g. external and internal walls); modal parameters, i.e. natural frequencies and mode shapes determined by means of experimental modal analysis, allowed the calibration of a predictive f.e. model of the building which was crucial for the final design of the retrofitting system. Tests were repeated after the retrofitting works, with the main objective to verify that changes of modal parameters are in agreement with those predicted by the f.e. model. Results and comparisons between the modal parameters obtained before and after the retrofitting works demonstrate that the ambient vibration tests and the data processing techniques used allow the identification of the dynamic behavior of r.c. few-storeys buildings under operating conditions and, then, the identification of dynamic changes due to seismic retrofitting works performed with external steel “dissipative towers”. A model updating procedure is carried out to identify the value of the elastic modulus of the different materials constituting structural and non-structural elements.","PeriodicalId":346259,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS) Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131378824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Damage detection in an operating Vestas V27 wind turbine blade by use of outlier analysis","authors":"M. D. Ulriksen, D. Tcherniak, L. Damkilde","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175851","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper explores the application of a well-established vibration-based damage detection method to an operating Vestas V27 wind turbine blade. The blade is analyzed in a total of four states, namely, a healthy one plus three damaged ones in which trailing edge openings of increasing sizes are introduced. In each state, the blade is subjected to controlled actuator hits, yielding forced vibrations that are measured in a total of 12 accelerometers; of which 11 are used for damage detection. The dimensionality of these acceleration data is reduced by means of principal component analysis (PCA), and then a reduced set of selected principal scores are employed as damage features in the Mahalanobis metric in order to detect damage-induced anomalies.","PeriodicalId":346259,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS) Proceedings","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132657409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling QoS in wireless monitoring systems as Markov chains","authors":"M. Pellegrini","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175884","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are nowadays employed in several applications that require real-time event monitoring (telemedicine, remote environmental monitoring, industrial automation). This has been enabled by the availability of sensors that have become smaller, cheaper, and intelligent. Most of the development efforts in WSN design were focused on energy efficiency, dynamic self-organization and mobility of the nodes (sensors). Providing Quality of Services (QoS) support in WSNs is an emerging area of research due to resource constraints like processing capability, memory, bandwidth and power sources. In this paper, we provide a system configuration of end-to-end QoS in an hydrometric level sensor network comprising local sensors and wireless back-haul network technologies. In particular, we focus on adaptive bit-rate and sampling interval and information prioritization using a first-order Markov chain (FOMC) to model such aspects. We also report performances achieved through rated bandwidth allocation for the sensor data flow across the WSN.","PeriodicalId":346259,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS) Proceedings","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134249496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying fabrication defects of metal packaged fibre Bragg grating sensors for smart pre-stressing strands","authors":"I. Mckeeman, P. Niewczas, M. Johnston","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175853","url":null,"abstract":"Metal packaged fibre Bragg grating sensors have the potential to provide reliable measurements of temperature and strain in high stress environments for the purpose of structural health monitoring. However due to the induction brazing fabrication process a small percentage of sensors are found to have defective brazed joints. We demonstrate a defect identification procedure derived from the batch temperature calibration of fibre Bragg grating sensors for temperature and strain measurement, allowing defective sensors to be identified before installation. The procedure was demonstrated on a sample of twelve temperature sensors fabricated for a small-scale smart pre-stressing strand validation test.","PeriodicalId":346259,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS) Proceedings","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115834119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}