I participated in the SHM in Action session as part of the 9th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring in Manchester (UK). An SHM demonstrator was presented there that shows the data communication capabilities of guided ultrasound waves. This additional feature might be exploited in future guided wave-based SHM systems.
More information on this experiment can be found in: Kexel, C.; Mälzer, M. & Moll, J., Connecting Physics to ICT: Demonstrating a `Data Drawbridge’ by means of Guided Ultrasound Waves, European Journal of Physics, 2018 (accepted in July 2018)