The sensors installed in the vehicle include accelerometers to measure vibration and gyroscopes to capture vehicle pitching motion. Principal Investigator: Kari Watkins Field Validation of a Drive-By Bridge Inspection System with Wireless BWIM + NDE Devices - In this project, a wireless sensor network will be investigated for installation on a heavy truck to record the dynamic response of the truck as it crosses a bridge mounted with BWIM+NDE devices. Sponsors: Georgia Tech GVU Center, Georgia Tech Institute for People and Technology, City of Atlanta, Southeastern Transportation Research Innovation Development and Education Center, Georgia Department of Transportation
This allows transportation planners to see which roads are avoided and which are popular and subsequently use this information to inform decisions about where infrastructure is needed to create bike-friendly routes through the city.
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Principal Investigator: Yang Wang Cycle Atlanta – Cycle Atlanta is an application for iPhone and Android that collects data about cyclists’ routes, origins, destinations, demographics and features of note in the city of Atlanta.
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We are instrumenting our interconnected infrastructure systems so we can assess their health, correct weaknesses, catch problems before they happen and prioritize our limited repair and replacement expenditures.Īnd we are capturing the interdependencies between systems to predict cascading failures and implement mitigation measures to reduce losses during disruptions and facilitate community recovery.ĮXAMPLE PROJECTS CAREER: Decentralized Monitoring and Control for Large-Scale Smart Structures with Wireless and Mobile Sensor Networks - The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award is to discover a series of decentralized substructure-based monitoring and control approaches using wireless and mobile sensor networks. We are effectively modeling future scenarios for city and regional infrastructure development to determine how and where we should grow as well as what will be required to meet the needs of future generations.
We are monitoring how our transportation systems perform and how people use them so we can make better decisions about how we get from place to place and what infrastructure we’ll need to do it. That’s why CEEatGT researchers are imaging groundbreaking means of using the data we have - and the new forms of data we’re inventing - for the betterment of humanity and the environment: Without the right tools to use it, data itself means little. The remaining 88 percent could contain vital insights. Most companies estimated just 12 percent. Modeling these “systems-of-systems” will require managing data at an unprecedented scale.įor some perspective, consider a 2014 survey from Forrester Research that asked businesses how much of the data they possess they’re actually using. It mixes the various man-made systems (transportation, water, power and telecommunications, to name a few) with natural systems (oceans, air, forests and more) as well as the social systems that enable our societies to function (everything from schools and the economy to the justice system and healthcare). Take, for example, our urban infrastructure, which is among the most complex systems in the world.
Our civil and environmental engineers are working to harness the potential of all this data with novel data-harvesting techniques - from wireless sensors to unmanned aerial vehicles - while also creating new ways to process, analyze, visualize and use that information. (A zettabyte is about a billion terabytes.) And this is just the beginning: Some estimates say the digital universe - currently 3.2 zettabytes - will grow to 40 zettabytes in just half a decade. It’s available in volume and quality unmatched in human history. The amount of data generated around the world has exploded.