1. The wireless structural monitoring system proposed in this paper attempts to adress some of the technical challenges mentioned above.

2. The paper presents in detail the hardware organization of the wireless SHM system.

3. This paper has presented in great detail, the design of an integrated software and hardware architecture for wireless structural health monitoring systems.

4. The prototype system can further be improved in a number of areas.

5. Future work is still needed to improve the hardware capabilities of the wireless sensing unit..

6. The 10-bit ADC can accommodate 32 simultaneous sensing channels with sampling rates as high as 100kHz.

7. One set of algorithms being considered for inclusion in a wireless sensor is the one would interrogate data for indications of structural damage.

8. When expressing the two parameters compared obtain similar results:

 a. very comparable to--it can be seen that the proposed embedded methods yield modal parameters very comparable to those obained using traditional offline analysis.

 b. exactly match to--it is shown that the estimated natural frequencies by the automated peak picking algorithm exactly match to the large peaks inferred as the natural frequencies of the cable.

 c. be in excellent agreement with--it can be found that the estimated tension forces are in excellent agreement with the real values measured by the strain gauges.