Citizen sensors for SHM: Towards a crowdsourcing platform

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 14591-14614

  Ozer, Ekin ^a   Feng, Maria Q ^a   Feng, Dongming ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient vibration; Citizen sensors; Crowdsourcing; Mobile networks; Modal identification; Smartphone sensors; Structural health monitoring

Indexed keywords

SENSOR NETWORKS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; WEBSITES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

AMBIENT VIBRATIONS; CROWDSOURCING; CROWDSOURCING PLATFORMS; MODAL IDENTIFICATION; PARTICIPATORY SENSING; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING (SHM); STRUCTURAL VIBRATIONS;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

EID: 84933511611     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150614591     Document Type: Article

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