A comprehensive description of a Low-Cost Angular Data Monitoring System

Abstract

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is basic to survey the exactness of strength forecasts of structures. Utilizing low-cost sensors on structural assessment have increased in contrast with using high-cost sensors. Although these may not be as exact and accurate as of the costly electronic gadgets, with an effective code and right use there is a probability of getting helpful data from them. The information produced from these low-cost sensors can provide useful insight for the SHM systems. In this paper problems regarding angular data acquisition together with their respective solutions are presented. Not only issues regarding coding and placing of these sensors have been presented completely, but precise solutions for the aforementioned problems as well as an efficient way of assembling and preparing the sensors have also been presented. The proposed circuit is composed of an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer, an Arduino board and a Laptop, as an information recorder and moderator.