Real Time Bridge Monitoring System

Abstract

Bridges play an important role while considering a transport infrastructure. As such, closing them for repair, inspection or replacement entails large costs for users. This comes naturally due to the fact that failure of a bridge could have severe consequences in material damage and human lives. Introducing monitoring techniques in its different forms i.e. damage detection, traffic monitoring, reliability assessment, etc. can save wealth by improving the understanding of a structure, thus reducing the need of overly safe assumptions and by granting the possibility to get early warnings of problems that develop. Bridges form a crucial part in a country’s infrastructure, as they require a huge amount to build and maintain. There is, therefore, much need to focus on bridges for monitoring which can enhance the life of a bridge. It can directly impact on avoiding or postponing any type of replacement, repair onto that bridge. Bridge monitoring system is significant to health diagnosis of bridges and flyovers.