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In structural health monitoring (SHM)-informed intelligent transportation systems (ITS) system, SHM sensors can provide data on a bridge health condition for ITS applications. Where ITS uses this bridge health condition information for real-time traffic management and monitoring. Most of the SHM-informed ITS use wireless sensor network (WSN) to allow devices to coordinate and collaborate to effectively measure a structure, whether the goal is to improve spatial resolution, structural resilience, bridge traffic, or perform advanced in-situ analysis. The WSN suffers from high power consumption, yet they are generally equipped with a limited power supply and in most cases AAA batteries. Even under the most stringent power management, the sensor nodes have an unattended life of approximately a few months to a year. Towards this end, the paper proposes a multi-agent based system to augment the life …