Structural Health Monitoring for Telecom Towers

The project “SHM for Telecom Towers” aims at developing a remote monitoring service to support the assessment of the structural integrity of assets, as the towers for Radio-TV Broadcasting or other metal infrastructures, in order to increase safety and optimize the maintenance procedures and promote the transition from a time-based maintenance to a condition-based one. The key point of the proposed solution is the integration of several existing technologies such as structural health monitoring and wireless sensor networks with existing space technologies such as GPS and satcom (when no terrestrial telecommunication is implemented). The objective of the feasibility study is to assess the technical feasibility as well as the commercial viability of such a monitoring service. Two major target users have been identified for the SHM for telecom towers service: Owners and managers of telecom towers; Telecom towers manufacturers.