Wireless Micro Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) Instrumentation: Development/Deployment

Current Projects

Wireless Micro Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) Instrumentation: Development/Deployment
(continuation of "Micro Instrumentation Development / Deployment" and extension of "Autonomous Crack Monitoring")

About the Researchers

Charles H. Dowding (principal investigator), Professor of Civil Engineering at Northwestern University
Hasan Ozer, Graduate Student
Mat Kotowsky, ITI Research Engineer / Civil Data Systems
Dave Kosnik, ITI Research Engineer / Civil Data Systems

Project Description(s)

Project Description

Full-text Articles, Presentations or Reports about the Project (most recent listed first)

September, 2007	"Multi-Hop Wireless Crack Measurement For Control Of Construction Vibrations," Proceedings, 7th International Symposium on Field Measurements in Geomechanics (FMGM), American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA, September 2007	Charles H. Dowding, Mat Kotowsky, Hasan Ozer
January, 2007	"Potentiometers for Measuring Micro-inch Crack Displacements with Wireless Systems" Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Rock Fragmentation by Blasting, Fragblast Section of the International Society of Explosive Engineers, Cleveland, OH, January, 2007	Charles H. Dowding, Hasan Ozer, and Dan Marron
February, 2006	"Wireless Crack Measurement for Control of Construction Vibrations" Proceedings of the GeoAtlanta Congress of the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA, February 2006	Charles H. Dowding, Hasan Ozer, and Mat Kotowsky
February, 2005	Hasan Ozer and Mat Kotowsky won third place in Crossbow Technology, Inc.'s competition "2005 Smart Dust Challenge" ( PDF) for the wireless sensing instrumentation they developed for this project	Poster from "2005 Smart Dust Challenge" Session ( PDF) Presentation ( PDF)
December, 2004	"Wireless Data Acquisition System", An Application to Crossbow's Smart Dust Challenge Contest, Hasan Ozer and Mat Kotowsky