Dragos, KosmasKosmasDragosSmarsly, KayKaySmarsly2022-12-162022-12-162022-09Eighth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC 2022)http://hdl.handle.net/11420/14401Traditional structural health monitoring (SHM) practices dictate centralized collection and pro- cessing of structural response data. The centralized paradigm, however, may be impractical for wireless SHM systems on account of the limited power autonomy of wireless sensor nodes, the limited reliability of wireless communication, and the centralized data repository bearing the risk of becoming a “single point of failure”. Considering the limitations of wireless SHM systems and focusing on avoiding centralized data collection, this paper presents an embedded physics-based modeling concept for wireless SHM systems in form of a work-in- progress report. The idea behind the proposed concept is to exploit the processing capabilities of wireless sensor nodes and the analysis capabilities of physics-based models in structural engineering to obtain estimates of structural conditions that cannot be derived from data-driven models. A major challenge of the embedded phys- ics-based concept is to ensure that the merits of embedding physics-based models undeniably outweigh the centralized collection and offline analysis of structural response data. To this end, the quality of embedded physics-based models is tested with respect to performance. Upon presenting the embedded physics-based con- cept, future work on potential implementation of the concept into wireless SHM systems are discussed.enConference PaperOther