Sensor-enabled system and method for monitoring the health, condition, and/or status of infrastructure

A method for monitoring status of geogrid supported infrastructure, comprising:

• distributing a sensor enabled geogrid within infrastructure;
• receiving, by a microcontroller within a sensor pod with a protective enclosure, signals from the sensor enabled geogrid within the infrastructure;
• processing, by the microcontroller, wherein the processing produces time series data comprising at least a base strain gauge measurement parameter, an accelerometer measurement parameter, and a max strain amount parameter from the sensor enabled geogrid within the infrastructure;
• filtering, by the microcontroller, the signal, wherein filtering applies the accelerometer measurement parameter to the base strain gauge measurement parameter to reduce noise;
• and
• transmitting, by a communications adapter configured to the microcontroller, the time series data to a computing network.

A method for monitoring condition and/or health of infrastructure, comprising:

• installing a sensor enabled geogrid in infrastructure;
• providing a communication link through a sensor pod in a protective enclosure and a gateway device from the sensor enabled geogrid to a computing network;
• monitoring information, comprising at least a base strain gauge measurement parameter, an accelerometer measurement parameter, and a max strain amount parameter, transmitted from the sensor enabled geogrid;
• and
• identifying, by a computing device, in the information, the base strain gauge measurement parameter and when the max strain amount parameter is exceeded, wherein the accelerometer measurement parameter filters out erroneous strain from the base strain gauge measurement parameter.