Device for monitoring at least a physical characteristic of a building material

摘要

A monitoring device is for at least one physical characteristic of a building material. the monitoring device is buried inside a block of the building material and has a sensor to sense a physical characteristic thereof. The monitoring device includes a secondary inductor and a circuit coupled thereto, the circuit to generate an internal supply voltage for the sensor to transmit a signal representative of the physical characteristic. A wireless power supplier for the sensor is configured to generate a variable electromagnetic field, and has a dielectric layer and a resonant L-C circuit buried therein. The resonant L-C circuit has a primary inductor to be magnetically coupled to the secondary inductor of the sensor, with the wireless power supplier further having two current terminals being coupleable to an external reading circuit for the signal. The sensor is adjacent to the dielectric layer so as to magnetically couple the primary inductor and the secondary inductor.