Towards a Workflow Management Approach for Health Monitoring of Bridges

Abstract

In brief, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) refers to the storage and analysis of large amounts of sensor data associated to specific variables that indicate the condition of a civil structure, e.g. a bridge on a national highway. SHM analysis tasks typically involve the integration of different tools which may be highly heterogeneous, autonomous and physically distributed among different organizations. This paper introduces a scientific workflow management approach to model and execute strategic SHM queries that require proper integration of data generated by different software components.

Diseño de un índice de salud estructural de puentes para priorización de intervenciones técnicas en Costa Rica

“…El Tecnológico de Costa Rica, por medio de sus centros de investigación, Centro de Investigaciones en Vivienda y Construcción (CIVCO) y Centro de Investigaciones en Computación (CIC), pertenecientes a las Escuelas de Ingeniería en Construcción e Ingeniería en Computación, respectivamente; desarrolló el proyecto de investigación: "Propuesta de un índice de salud estructural para puentes (BHI) para Costa Rica" (2019-2020). Este proyecto representa una continuación del trabajo realizado en la última década del grupo de investigación multidisciplinario e-Bridge en el área de desarrollo de modelos y herramientas para el monitoreo de salud de puentes en Costa Rica (ver por ejemplo [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14].…”

e-Bridge 3.0: A Strategic Approach to Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges in Costa Rica

“…The application of these tools will contribute to strengthen one of the key pillars of national economic competiveness. Previous stages of e-Bridge covered specific projects with focus on capacity building and information integration (see for instance [1][2][3]). Following the established road map, after this third stage, we plan to create a spin-off company specializing on Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) services with a Central American scope.…”

“…Considering existing approaches, one of the main differentiating aspects considered for e-Bridge 3.0 is the incorporation of specialized business intelligence techniques and platforms that support data cubes, strategic key performance indicators and dashboards associated to bridge monitoring. Moreover, the system will apply a scientific workflow management approach for data integration from different systems following virtual enterprise / collaborative networks concepts and models (see [2,[12][13][14]), and it will be tailored to a specific bridge inspection methodology for the national context.…”

“…The main components of e-Bridge 3.0 architecture are based on the architecture defined for e-Bridge 2.0 (see [1] for details). In summary, these components include: a technical information system for bridge structures; sensors systems to measure actual bridge performance; a geoportal to analyze geographical aspects; and an information integration system using scientific workflow management [2]. In e-Bridge 3.0, the information integration system will be expanded to include business intelligence capabilities for the bridge monitoring system.…”

Enfoques de integración de información para sistemas de monitoreo de salud estructural de puentes

“…Este trabajo se desarrolló como parte del proyecto e-Bridge 2.0 -Sistema de información integrado para determinación del desempeño de estructuras de puentes, que reúne a profesionales de varias disciplinas, incluyendo ingeniería en construcción, computación, electrónica y producción industrial y forestal en el Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC) (Garita & Ortiz, 2014). El objetivo principal de e-Bridge 2.0 es desarrollar un prototipo de sistema integrado de información para consultas estratégicas sobre el desempeño de los puentes, basado en datos obtenidos por medio de SIG, sensores de medición del desempeño, modelos de confiabilidad estructural e información técnica.…”