MUMBAI, India, Jan. 23 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202521121862 A) filed by Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha's Cummins College Of Engineering For Women, Pune, Maharashtra, on Dec. 4, 2025, for 'a system and method for autonomous remote structural health monitoring bridges.'
Inventor(s) include Shreya Yatin Gujarathi; Siddhi Anand Vaidya; Dr. Sheetal Barekar; and Prof. Nutan Deshmukh.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 23, under issue no. 04/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An autonomous system (100) integrates a power layer (101) with a solar panel (101-1), Li-ion battery (101-2) and battery-management system (101-3) featuring MPPT, a sensing layer (102) with sensors including strain gauge (102-1), tilt sensor (102-2), three-axis accelerometer (102-3), ultrasonic sensor (102-4) and temperature/humidity sensor (102-5), an edge-computing layer (103) comprised of an ESP32-class microcontroller (103-1) embedded with TinyML for calibration, signal conditioning and anomaly detection, and a communication layer (104) with a dual-mode wireless module (104-1) for LoRa and GSM connectivity plus data logging. The invention provides real-time structural health assessment of rural bridges and initiates emergency response protocols autonomously while operating in an energy-efficient deep-sleep mode."
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