Development of Smart Rigid Pavement Health Monitoring Assessment Tool

The progress of the nation ultimately depends upon the transport system it has. Many means of transport have been adopted but road way network plays a crucial role among all. The widespread of road connectivity to various cities, towns created a tough task for researchers in developing the road system. In this regard, effective experimental studies are in progress with respect to flexible and cement concrete pavements. This research paper holds a good promising attempt on cement concrete pavement by assessing its condition with the help of wide sensor network. An integrated platform of IoT for strength assessment of cement concrete samples is developed by using Wi-Fi module, Raspberry pi, ADC &DAC converters in also with (piezoelectric) PZT sensors. Testing of concrete specimens are strongly bonded with PZT transducers which acts as an actuator &sensor respectively. Sinusoidal wave is developed through an actuator simultaneously responses are recorded with the help of sensors which can be converted to digital form with the help of ADC medium. The entire collected data is analysed by using the MATLAB software.