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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Civil Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 876174, 17 pages doi:10.1155/2012/876174 Research Article Structural Health Monitoring Using Wireless Technologies: An Ambient Vibration Test on the Adolphe Bridge, Luxembourg City Adrien Oth1 and Matteo Picozzi2 1 European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology (ECGS), 19 Rue Josy Welter, 7256 Walferdange, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2 Helmholtz Centre Potsdam-GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany Correspondence should be addressed to Adrien Oth, adrien.oth@ecgs.lu Received 5 September 2011; Accepted 6 December 2011 Academic Editor: Lingyu (Lucy) Yu Copyright © 2012 A. Oth and M. Picozzi. 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. Major threats to bridges primarily consist of the aging of the structural elements, earthquake-induced shaking and standing waves generated by windstorms. The necessity of information on the state of health of structures in real-time, allowing for timely warnings in the case of damaging events, requires structural health monitoring (SHM) systems that allow the risks of these threats to be mitigated. Here we present the results of a short-duration experiment carried out with low-cost wireless instruments for monitoring the vibration characteristics and dynamic properties of a strategic civil infrastructure, the Adolphe Bridge in Luxembourg City. The Adolphe Bridge is a masonry arch construction dating from 1903 and will undergo major renovation works in the upcoming years. Our ex