Bridges in seven European countries are part of a three-and-a-half-year programme to develop an inexpensive and low-power wireless structural health monitoring technique. Project SENSKIN, launched last summer in Athens, will run until December 2018. It is focussed on applying a skin-like sensor that offers spatial sensing of irregular surfaces, especially transportation bridges. Up to now, structural health monitoring has relied on a point-based system that requires a dense network of sensors over the bridg