Recycled Smart Devices for Real-Time Monitoring of Civil Infrastructures

This contribution summarizes some preliminary results obtained in the development of a platform based on recycle Smart Devices to monitor the vibrations of buildings and infrastructure. The platform, designed within the framework of a project funded by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, exploits the accelerometer, the other sensors, and communication boards included in Smart Devices that have reached their end of life. The idea is to realize a fully autonomous setup capable of acquiring information provided by the different sensors, store the datasets in a cloud server that can be accessed either during the monitoring phase or the post-processing phase, and perform locally a real-time nonlinear analysis to extract features leading to alarms.