IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, VOL. 8, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2008 2053 A Wireless, PassiveEmbeddedSensor for Real-Time Monitoring of Water Content in Civil Engineering Materials Justin B. Ong, Zhanping You, Julian Mills-Beale, Ee Lim Tan, Brandon D. Pereles,and Keat Ghee Ong Abstract —A wireless, passive embedded sensor was applied for real-time monitoring of water content in civil engineering mate- rials such