MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641024777 A) filed by Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on March 2, for 'iot-enabled structural health monitoring system using wireless sensor networks.'
Inventor(s) include Mr. V. Saravanan; Mr. G. Theivananthan; Dr. K. Lavanya; Dr. S. Manju; Mr. K. Radhakrishnan; Mrs. S. Sandhya; Dr. J. S. Leena Jasmine; Dr. V. Magesh; Mr. Badiganchela Shiva Kumar; and Dr. B. Raja Sekhar Reddy.
The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses an IoT-Enabled Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system utilizing a distributed Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) for real-time structural integrity assessment. The system comprises multiple low-power sensor nodes integrated with triaxial accelerometers, strain gauges, tilt sensors, and environmental sensors connected to a microcontroller-based data acquisition unit. Each node performs signal conditioning, noise filtering, and feature extraction using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and Wavelet Transform techniques to derive modal parameters such as natural frequency, damping ratio, and strain energy variation. Processed data is transmitted through energy-efficient communication protocols including LoRa or ZigBee to an IoT gateway and cloud analytics platform. Machine learning models such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) perform anomaly detection, damage localization, and structural state classification. Time-series prediction models estimate structural degradation trends and Remaining Service Life (RSL). The system enables high-sensitivity crack detection, low-latency data transmission, and long-term autonomous infrastructure monitoring."
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