A proposal to estimate seismic risk on buildings using WSN

This paper presents the preliminary results of a structural low-cost monitoring platform based on wireless sensor networks (WSN) to estimate the seismic risk of buildings. This platform will be able to estimate the structural vulnerability level of existing buildings and the seismic intensity level. This platform has been called as SAVER (Structural Analysis of VulnerabilitiEs of buildings through wiReless sensor networks). The expected results in SAVER project intend to give the basis for the analysis of buildings and gather instrumental data that can be useful for decision-making of institutions and users that are responsible for infrastructure and buildings. This is very important mainly in Countries prone to big earthquakes, as Mexico. Furthermore, in this project, we present the development and implementation of a new wireless sensor node. It is important to note, that this sensor node will be small size and low cost, capable of providing the necessary information to implement methods of vulnerability analysis and therefore, to estimate the seismic risk of buildings, such as hospitals or schools.