Abstract: Conventionally, structural health monitoring (SHM) routines are time-based and are carried out offline. So they cannot provide real-time situational awareness. More recently, online health monitoring systems start to appear thanks to the fast developing technologies in sensing, hardware miniature, embedded computing and communication.

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There is an urgent need to build structural health monitoring (SHM) systems that can automatically detect, identify, localize, prognose and mitigate anomalies and damages in a structure at an early stage such that catastrophic failures can be avoided.