Patent ID: 8818739

Claim:
A monitoring system for on-ground monitoring of loads applied to an aircraft's landing gear structure, comprising: a) one or more sensors positioned proximate the landing gear so as to be able to measure strain in the landing gear structure; b) a sensor control unit in communication with the one or more sensors and positioned proximate the landing gear, the sensor control unit including: i) data acquisition circuitry for interrogating the one or more sensors so as to acquire strain data therefrom; ii) a first processor in communication with the data acquisition circuitry; and iii) a memory module in communication with the processor for storing strain data; c) a data concentrator unit in communication with the sensor control unit to process strain data received from the sensor control unit to yield overload condition data, the data concentrator unit including: i) a second processor for processing the strain data received from the sensor control unit to yield overload condition data; and ii) a memory module in communication with the second processor for storing overload condition data.