Internet of Things for Structural Health Monitoring

Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm extends the connectivity capability to everyday life object through Internet. The availability of billions of connected devices spread all over and each of them able to acquire and elaborate data open new scenarios in the development of new data acquisition systems and in the design of methods for the automatic management of such big data, allowing new digital services. In the last few years a new field of application of the IoT is the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and the systems developed in this framework have been experimented with good results. Such systems are mainly devoted to monitoring, for example, multiple parts of a civil/industrial structure, reducing the risks for people due to sudden collapse. The aim of this work is to give an overview of the different types of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) used to identify, detect and characterize the degradation and damage of all types of engineering structures, highlighting their benefits, and their improvement obtained thanks the application of IoT paradigm.