Domenico Balsamo, Giacomo Paci, L. Benini, Brunelli Davide
{"title":"Long term, low cost, passive environmental monitoring of heritage buildings for energy efficiency retrofitting","authors":"Domenico Balsamo, Giacomo Paci, L. Benini, Brunelli Davide","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2013.6661695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2013.6661695","url":null,"abstract":"Monitoring the structural health and the local climate of historical heritage buildings may be a hard task for civil engineers for assessing the energy efficiency of the environment, due to the lack of a pre-existing monitoring model, and due to the presence of deployments with strict installation constraints. This paper reports on the experience gathered during an European Project (3ENCULT Project - Efficient Energy for EU Cultural Heritage) regarding the design and implementation of an innovative technological network for monitoring heritage buildings. We present hardware and software solution developed to efficiently satisfy the requirements for long-term monitoring of a historical building, called `Palazzina della Viola', and located in the centre of Bologna, Italy. The presented system provides real-time feedback to civil engineers which can retrieve sensed data using remote interfaces. Based on 7 months of operation, we show that the proposed solution, compared with other standard monitoring systems, is an effective low-cost alternative testing tool for assessing the environmental monitoring in heritage buildings. The system allows a reliable data transfer and we estimated the lifetime beyond two years.","PeriodicalId":385879,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Environmental Energy and Structural Monitoring Systems","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123681345","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":"An Android-based platform for augmented-reality remote inspection systems prototyping","authors":"S. Ferrari, Gheorghi B. V. Pentchev","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2013.6661705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2013.6661705","url":null,"abstract":"A framework for developing prototypes of remote controlled inspection robots with semi-autonomous behavior and augmented reality enriched real-time video feedback is presented. This platform is constituted of very common and reusable hardware, equipped with open source software. The resulting system is very flexible and customizable, with a low set-up time, which provide an affordable fast prototyping framework.","PeriodicalId":385879,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Environmental Energy and Structural Monitoring Systems","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132338611","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":"Structural monitoring system for the management of emergency due to natural events","authors":"D. Losanno, J. M. Londoño, M. Spizzuoco","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2013.6661703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2013.6661703","url":null,"abstract":"The growing interest towards the use of permanent monitoring system is due to the importance of assessing the damage occurring on a structure after extreme events like earthquakes, typhoons or tsunamis, so that the expert authorities can provide the users and the owner with immediate information on structural safety. Last year, an experimental campaign has been presented in [1], regarding to a full-scale three-dimensional reinforced concrete frame in Italy, monitored over time by using different types of sensors to determine the structural displacements. This structure has been tested in laboratory under a sequence of earthquakes of increasing amplitude. The experimental results allow to conclude that, for seismic monitoring, the measurement system based on accelerometers is better when the monitored structure doesn't exhibits residual displacements after the earthquake, while a vision measurement system is suited to estimatea possible residual post-earthquake displacement.","PeriodicalId":385879,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Environmental Energy and Structural Monitoring Systems","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126021478","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":"Smart passive control of seismic structural vibrations exploiting early warning information","authors":"G. Maddaloni, N. Caterino, A. Occhiuzzi","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2013.6661700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2013.6661700","url":null,"abstract":"The combined use of two emerging technologies in the field of seismic engineering, apparently far each other, is focused herein. The first, semi-active (SA) control aims at smartly reduce the seismic effects induced by the earthquake on the structures; the second, seismic early warning (SEW) is instead addressed to make anticipate estimate of the intensity measures of an incoming earthquake some seconds before it strikes a given site. Current research on SEW include the anticipate estimate of the peak ground acceleration (PGA). The paper proposes the exploitation of this earthquake parameter in the framework of SA control strategies. The effectiveness of the proposed strategy is assessed and compared with other more consolidated control strategies. Possible errors on estimation of PGA provided by the SEW system and their influence on the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":385879,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Environmental Energy and Structural Monitoring Systems","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132389666","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}
Walter Torresani, N. Battisti, A. Maglione, D. Brunelli, D. Macii
{"title":"A multi-sensor wireless solution for indoor thermal comfort monitoring","authors":"Walter Torresani, N. Battisti, A. Maglione, D. Brunelli, D. Macii","doi":"10.1109/EESMS.2013.6661697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2013.6661697","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a low-cost, distributed monitoring system for thermal comfort management in indoor environments. Thermal comfort depends on the combination of various physical quantities, such as temperature, humidity, density of people and air flow speed. Usually, most of commercial solutions measure only temperature and humidity in a single location of the room. However, better results can be achieved if distributed measurements are performed using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The WSN described in this paper consists of nodes that are equipped not only with basic temperature and humidity sensors, but also with two further types of transducers measuring the air flow speed and the radiant temperature, respectively, thus greatly improving thermal comfort estimation accuracy. In the following, the WSN architecture and the performance of the sensors used on each WSN node are analyzed in detail. In addition, some experimental results collected indoors using a small WSN prototype are reported.","PeriodicalId":385879,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Environmental Energy and Structural Monitoring Systems","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114497284","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}