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Smart Civil Infrastructure Monitoring

Smart Civil Infrastructure Monitoring. Project Client/Facility Advisor: Randall Geiger Project Team : Team Leader: Xianbo Tao Website Leader: Kun Zhang Communicator: Guoyan Kai. Project Plan. Problem Statement

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Smart Civil Infrastructure Monitoring

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  1. Smart Civil Infrastructure Monitoring Project Client/Facility Advisor: Randall Geiger Project Team:Team Leader: Xianbo Tao Website Leader: Kun Zhang Communicator: GuoyanKai

  2. Project Plan • Problem Statement • Conceptual Sketch              • Functional Requirements         • Non-functional Requirements • Technical Constraints • Potential Risks              • Resource and Cost Estimate              • Project Milestones & Schedule

  3. Problem Statement • Long-term safety of the aging civil infrastructure • Bridge, Building, Public Transportation, and public utility system. • New concept: Soft capacitor • Powering the monitoring system by using harvesting energy • Code setup for Arduino Board • Wireless communication interface problem

  4. Project Goal • Design circuit for small changes in capacitors • Analyze system reliability • Transfer the signal wirelessly • Test the system stability to environment

  5. Conceptual Sketch

  6. Functional Requirements • Circuit design requirement • Microcontroller wirelessly to computer • MATLAB code to plot sensor output • Environment Resistance

  7. Non-functional Requirements • Limited access to the base station (PC) • Low power dissipation • The communication system free of interference

  8. Technical Constrain • Power consumption • The output voltage limited to saturated voltage of op-amp • Constrain the bandwidth of the Op-amp to enhance the gain of the circuit.

  9. Potential Risks • Capacitance changes so small • Soft-capacitor is unstable • Stress is over the limitation • Temperature • Not completely hooked up on bridge

  10. Resource and Cost Estimate

  11. Project Schedule

  12. System Design • Functional Decomposition • Detailed Design      • HW/SW/Technology Platform used • Test Plan             • Prototype Implementations • Block implementations

  13. Functional Decomposition • Overall Function A monitoring system to inspect potential problems of bridges. • Sub-functions • Measure small capacitance change • Transmit sensor output • Reliable Network • Base station

  14. Detailed Design • System Architecture • The Design Circuit • The Testing Results • Transmit the Signal into Micro-Controller • Transmit the Signal to the Computer

  15. System Architecture

  16. The Design Circuit

  17. The Testing Results • If there is no crack happen on the bridge • Increasing the Delta C

  18. The Testing Results • If the crack happens on the position of C1 • Keep increasing Delta C

  19. The Testing Results

  20. The Testing Results

  21. Transmit the Signal into Micro-Controller

  22. Transmit the Signal to computer • Transceiver to computer. • Notice the maintainers to repair it if problem exists.

  23. HW/SW/Technology Platform • Hardware • Arduino Board • Wishield Board • Soft capacitor • Wireless Router • Computer

  24. HW/SW/Technology Platform • Software • MATLAB • C Language • Arduino software

  25. Test Plan • Small capacitance change • Output voltage based on the delta C • Stability of changing small capacitance • Certainty of Microcontroller system • Communication system • Wishield Board • Computer

  26. Prototype Implementation

  27. Conclusion • Current Project Status • Task Contribution • Plan Rest of This Semester

  28. Current Project Status • Finish the circuit design • Finish the simulation of circuit design • In progress of Microcontroller part

  29. Task Contribution

  30. Plan Rest of This Semester • To fulfill the microcontroller coding • To fulfill the network with computer • Work on the software of interface on computer

  31. Question ?

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