Patent ID: 7283806

Claim:
A method of sensing and presenting information comprising: sensing a physical trait for determining the security status of a structure by a first node comprising a sensor contiguous to the structure, wherein the physical trait comprises at least one of vibrations, tensile strength, delamination, and corrosion, and the structure comprises one of a bridge, road, building, dam, aircraft, rotating machinery, and container; comparing the physical trait with a standard stored within one of the first node and a second node, the second node comprising a microprocessor contiguous to the structure, the first and second nodes being spaced apart; if the physical trait is compared with the standard in the first node, transmitting the comparison to the second node; generating, by the microprocessor, actionable knowledge from the comparison; optionally presenting the actionable knowledge by a first user interface within the first node; presenting the actionable knowledge by a second user interface within the second node; wirelessly transmitting the actionable knowledge from a transmitter contiguous to the structure to a network operations center; presenting the actionable knowledge by a third user interface within the network operations center; and providing instructions to the user interface from one of the microprocessor or the network operations center in response to the actionable knowledge.