A system to monitor the health of a structure, health monitoring sensor
nodes, program product, and associated methods are provided. The system
includes an array of health monitoring sensor nodes connected to or
embedded within a structure to monitor the health of the structure. Each
health monitoring sensor node includes sensor elements positioned to
sense parameters of the structure and to provide data related to the
parameters to a health monitoring sensor node interrogator. Each health
monitoring sensor node has a tunable antenna arrangement individually
tunable to minimize data collisions between each other of the health
monitoring sensor nodes. Each health monitoring sensor node also includes
a processor and memory in communication with the processor storing a
parameter processing program product adapted to control tuning the
antenna arrangement and providing data to the health monitoring sensor
node interrogator.