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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 Project Client/Facility Advisor: Randall Geiger Project Team:Team Leader: Xianbo Tao Website Leader: Kun Zhang Communicator: GuoyanKai
Project Plan • Problem Statement • Conceptual Sketch • Functional Requirements • Non-functional Requirements • Technical Constraints • Potential Risks • Resource and Cost Estimate • Project Milestones & Schedule
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
Project Goal • Design circuit for small changes in capacitors • Analyze system reliability • Transfer the signal wirelessly • Test the system stability to environment
Functional Requirements • Circuit design requirement • Microcontroller wirelessly to computer • MATLAB code to plot sensor output • Environment Resistance
Non-functional Requirements • Limited access to the base station (PC) • Low power dissipation • The communication system free of interference
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.
Potential Risks • Capacitance changes so small • Soft-capacitor is unstable • Stress is over the limitation • Temperature • Not completely hooked up on bridge
System Design • Functional Decomposition • Detailed Design • HW/SW/Technology Platform used • Test Plan • Prototype Implementations • Block implementations
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
Detailed Design • System Architecture • The Design Circuit • The Testing Results • Transmit the Signal into Micro-Controller • Transmit the Signal to the Computer
The Testing Results • If there is no crack happen on the bridge • Increasing the Delta C
The Testing Results • If the crack happens on the position of C1 • Keep increasing Delta C
Transmit the Signal to computer • Transceiver to computer. • Notice the maintainers to repair it if problem exists.
HW/SW/Technology Platform • Hardware • Arduino Board • Wishield Board • Soft capacitor • Wireless Router • Computer
HW/SW/Technology Platform • Software • MATLAB • C Language • Arduino software
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
Conclusion • Current Project Status • Task Contribution • Plan Rest of This Semester
Current Project Status • Finish the circuit design • Finish the simulation of circuit design • In progress of Microcontroller part
Plan Rest of This Semester • To fulfill the microcontroller coding • To fulfill the network with computer • Work on the software of interface on computer