About Building Health Monitoring System

Posted by Marklennon on August 18th, 2016

Structural health monitoring is the assessment of the building health, and is also used to recognize the safety of the building and to increase safety and maintenance activities of the complex buildings. This monitoring systems data allow owners to improve their building operations, maintenance, repairs, and re-modeling structures. The main goal of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is to improve safety and improve the infrastructure systems by detecting the damage before it reaches to a critical state.  In Building health monitoring system we can able to detect damage early, since early detection of damage can used to save money and our lives!

Visual Inspection

Traditionally, damage detection can be performed through the periodic maintenance and by visual inspection done by qualified personnel who impose high costs and also leads inconvenience on the structural system owners and users may alike. In addition, resources like ceiling tiles, partition walls, and fire proofing as well as qualified inspectors may not be available immediately after a damaging event, especially for urban areas.

Structural Health Monitoring(SHM)

Visual inspection is the non-destructive evaluation techniques. However, most of the techniques require lot of manual work. Thus, currently SHM is rising, because it can provide best cost savings by reducing the no of manual work (visual inspections). MEMS and as well as wireless sensing are becoming the main features in SHM systems.

However it is optimized and also autonomous, the SHM systems are still not spread anywhere.

Benefits of Integrated Building Health Monitoring Systems-

•          It delivers complete solution.
•          Increased safety and prevent property damage.
•          Extend the lifetime of aging buildings
•          Monitor buildings by assessing the current condition whether repairs are needed.
•          Reduced insurance and maintenance costs
•          Quick and early assessments of damage and failures
•          Real-time SHM for critical infrastructure

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