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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Civil Engineering Volume 2010, Article ID 631939, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2010/631939 Research Article IEEE 802.11-Based Wireless Sensor System for Vibration Measurement Yutaka Uchimura,1 Tadashi Nasu,2 and Motoichi Takahashi2 1 Shibaura Institute of Technology, 3-7-5 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8548, Japan 2 Kajima Corporation, 1-3-1 Motoakasaka, minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0051, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Yutaka Uchimura, uchimura@sic.shibaura-it.ac.jp Received 15 October 2009; Revised 17 December 2009; Accepted 15 January 2010 Academic Editor: Yi Qing Ni Copyright © 2010 Yutaka Uchimura et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Network-based wireless sensing has become an important area of research and various new applications for remote sensing are expected to emerge. One of the promising applications is structural health monitoring of building or civil engineering structure and it often requires vibration measurement. For the vibration measurement via wireless network, time synchronization is indispensable. In this paper, we introduce a newly developed time synchronized wireless sensor network system. The system employs IEEE 802.11 standard-based TSF-counter and sends the measured data with the counter value. TSF based synchronization enables consistency on common clock among different wireless nodes. We consider the scale effect on synchronization accuracy and evaluated the effect by taking beacon collisions into account. The scalability issue by numerical simulations is also studied. This