(5) Applications of GeoMEMS Sensors and Smart Soil Particle (SSP)  
Landslide motion monitoring using MEMS sensors and Smart Soil Particle (SSP)  
   
 
   
Smart Soil Particle (SSP), the 1st Generation: (a) with both MEMS accelerometer (ADXL345) and MEMS gyroscope (MPU6050) installed, and also equipped with on-board flash memory and wireless transmission capability, and (b) the USB antenna to receive data transmitted by the SSP.  
   
 
   
Monitoring the blasting-induced vibration using MEMS sensors.  
   
 
   
Publications:

  • Ooi, G.L.,and Wang, Y.H., Wong, T.W., and Wong, C.S. (2010). “An exploratory study on the application of miniature sensors in monitoring landslide motion,” 7th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG 2010), ETH Zurich, Vol. 2, 367-372.

  • Wang, Y.H., Ooi, G.L. and Gao, Y. (2013). “New sensing technology and new applications in geotechnical engineering,” The 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, September 2-5, 2013, Paris, France.

  • Ooi, G.L. and Wang, Y.H. (2014). “Applying MEMS accelerometers to measure ground vibration and to characterize landslide initiation features in laboratory flume test,” Geo-Congress 2014, Geo-Characterization and Modeling for Sustainability, Atlanta, February, 2014.

  • Ooi, G.L., Wang, Y.H., Tan, P.S., So, C.F., Leung, M.L., Li, X., and Lok, K.H. (2014). “An instrumented flume to characterize the initiation features of flow landslides,” ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 37, No. 5, DOI: 10.1520/GTJ20130158.

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