Memscon - Radio frequency identification tags linked to on board micro-electro-mechanical systems in a wireless, remote and intelligent monitoring and assessment system for the maintainance of constructed facilities.  
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Radio frequency identification tags linked to on board micro-electro-mechanical systems in a wireless, remote and intelligent monitoring and assessment system for the maintainance of constructed facilities.
 
 

Release of the sixth MEMSCON Newsletter

Release of the fifth MEMSCON Newsletter

Release of the fourth MEMSCON Newsletter


MEMSCON Facts

Contract No: 036887 

Project total cost:  4.632.430

EC contribution: 3.814.816

Project Start Date: 1/10/2008

Duration: 36 Months

Coordinator: Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Athens, Greece

Instrument: Specific Targeted Research Project

No of partners: 12

 

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D1.1: System specifications and market research

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Present report defines the system specifications of the MEMSCON system to de designed and constructed. MEMSCON aims to develop a new generation of tiny, cheap, networked sensors that can be ‘sprayed’ on civil and building structures to provide detailed, quantitative information on the structure’s physical state while in service. Towards this direction, MEMS-based sensors shall be integrated with an RFID tag in a single package in a low-power, wireless, networking scheme. The provided information can be used to assess the structural condition and aid decision making on rehabilitation so that safety can be attained and material consumption and rehabilitation costs can be reduced.  

The most relative properties for structural analysis are movement (acceleration and displacement) and forces. The corresponding sensors that produce these measurements are accelerometers and strain sensors (stresses and forces can be deduced from strain measurements).

At this report, we present the main end-user requirements concerning the proposed system and the system specifications as emanate from the requirements. The user requirements mainly involve the demands for the physical characteristics, the power consumption and any environmental or other installation requirement concerning the sub-systems and the integrated package. Based on these requirements, the developers subsequently provided the specifications for the RFIDs, the strain sensors and the accelerators along with the base station and the interrogation unit.

The last part of this deliverable includes a market research on different other commercial components that are used for similar purposes.

This deliverable is an essential component in order to proceed with the implementation of the hardware and software that will be carried out within MEMSCON project.