The present invention is directed to recording changes associated with the acceleration
of a structure. An exemplary embodiment includes an accelerometer array having
at least one silicon beam type accelerometer, a nonvolatile memory, a clock timer,
a programmable control unit operatively coupled to the accelerometer array, at
least one non-volatile memory, and clock timer. The accelerometer array, the at
least one non-volatile memory, the clock timer and the programmable control unit
can be formed on a common semiconductor substrate (e.g., integrated), with the
accelerometer array disposed in a central region.
