As a potential replacement of the traditional tethered system, wireless smart sensor networks (WSSNs) attract a lot of interests and have many applications, especially in civil engineering for structural health monitoring (SHM). However, many wireless sensor networks are based on some commercial wireless communication board and other sensor boards which need to be connected on it are expensive. Based on our previous research, this paper gives and demonstrates a proposal to make a low cost and low power wireless smart sensor using ARM Cortex™-M3 and some low cost and low power components....
