Graduate Student Posters 2007


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06. Efficient Data Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks

Author: Shengpu Lui

In this poster, we present an efficient sensor data compression process for civil infrastructure health monitoring applications. It integrates lifting scheme wavelet transform (LSWT) and distributed source coding (DSC), which can reduce the raw data size by 1:27 to 1:80 while having a minor effect on the modal parameters identified from the sensor data. We have compared our algorithms with other data compression algorithms for structural health monitoring. Results show that our algorithms can achieve 100% higher compression ratios with the same signal-restoration quality.