Emerging wireless sensor technology presents a tremendous opportunity for developing low-cost monitoring systems for civil infrastructure. A set of wireless MICA2 mote accelerometers were deployed on a reinforced concrete bridge column to collect data during a shaking table earthquake simulation test. The data from the test were ingested into a data and metadata system for testing the usability of the metadata description for data mining and visualization. The metadata system used the NEESgrid metadata services interface for backend storage. The results of the data acquisition and ingestion were used to determine the feasibility of using a comprehensive sensor, data storage, and data retrieval system for health monitoring.