Enhancing construction quality inspection and management using RFID technology

Wang, Lung-Chuang

doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2007.08.005

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“…The transfer of energy is in the form of magnetic field, which is the way the tag and reader communicate. In the correct environment and proximity to an RFID tag reader, these antennas can collect enough energy to power the tag's other components without a battery [14].…”

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“…The integrated circuit chip contains a microprocessor, memory, and a transponder. The communication protocol between the antennas on the tag and on the reader allows the two entities to pass data back and forth [14].…”

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“…The system architecture is designed as shown in Attached to the chip is the antenna, whose purpose is to absorb RF waves from the reader's signal and to send and receive data [18]. The antenna is also known as the coupling mechanism [14]. In electronics, coupling refers to the transfer of energy from one medium to another [19].…”

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RFID Technology Applications with PMIS for Managing RMC Truck Operations

Kim¹,

Kim²

2011

Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction

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This research presents a strategy and information system to manage the logistics of delivery ready mixed concrete (RMC) under the integrated environment of PMIS+RFID. PMIS is system tool and technique used in construction sectors to delivery information. Information that can be extracted electronically in real time is more valuable than data gathered and maintained manually. RFID technology can help to improve data accuracy through supply chains and by identifying products and objects at specific points through automatic identification. The objectives of these two implementations can be able to improve the efficiency of logistics management for RMC truck process, and to verify the technical and practical feasibility of PMIS+RFID application in construction industry. This may be realistic given the dynamics of daily activities on construction sites. This research is focused on examples on real-world case study, applications and research theme related and connected to PMIS+RFID technology. It demonstrated that PMIS+RFID technology has been automatically implemented and has shown process information about the RMC truck and the overall status information about it, both quickly and accurately. As a result, the construction site where needs 300 ㎥ pouring (50 RMC trucks) per day can be reduced total 250 minutes. Moreover, this time saving is related to the labour cost saving. From the case studies, RFID+PMIS system was proven in terms of effectiveness rather than current method.

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RFID Technology Applications with PMIS for Managing RMC Truck Operations

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Kim²

2011

Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction

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“…Lu et al (2010) has summarized the research of RFID in construction. Most of the research focuses on using RFID in the construction supply chain (Wang et al, 2007), construction quality inspection and management (Wang, 2008) and construction assets tracking (Chae and Yoshida, 2010;Jang and Skibniewski, 2009;Goodrum et al, 2006).…”

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Design and implementation of an identification system in construction site safety for proactive accident prevention

Yang

Chew

et al. 2012

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Citation: YANG, H. ... et al, 2012. Design and implementation of an identification system in construction site safety for proactive accident prevention. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 48, Additional Information:• This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in the journal Accident Analysis & Prevention. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Abstract: Identifying accident precursors using real-time identity information has great potential to improve safety performance in construction industry, which is still suffering from day to day records of accident fatality and injury. Based on the requirements analysis for identifying precursor and the discussion of enabling technology solutions for acquiring and sharing real-time automatic identification information on construction site, this paper proposes an identification system design for proactive accident prevention to improve construction site safety. Firstly, a case study is conducted to analyze the automatic identification requirements for identifying accident precursors in construction site. Results show that it mainly consists of three aspects, namely access control, training and inspection information and operation authority. The system is then designed to fulfill these requirements based on ZigBee enabled Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), RadioFrequency Identification (RFID) technology and an integrated ZigBee RFID sensor network structure. At the same time, an information database is also designed and implemented, which includes 15 tables, 54 queries and several reports and forms. In the end, a demonstration system based on the proposed system design is developed as a proof of concept prototype. The contributions of this study include the requirement analysis and technical design of a real-time identity information tracking solution for proactive accident prevention on construction sites. The technical solution proposed in this paper has a significant importance in improving safety performance on construction sites. Moreover, this study can serve as a reference design for future system integrations where more functions, such as environment monitoring and location tracking, can be added.

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“…Radio frequency identification (RFID) is one of the most widely used technologies and has been developing rapidly, to a global value of US$7.67 billion in 2012; it is expected to grow to $11.3 billion by 2015 (IDTechEx, 2013). Many researchers have focused on the applications of RFID technology and have proven that it has the potential to become pervasive (Domdouzis et al, 2007) for various purposes such as prefabrication control and management (Ergen et al, 2007;Yin et al, 2009), supply chain management (Song et al, 2006b;Kaneko et al, 2007;Wang et al, 2007;Ren et al, 2010), onsite (Song et al, 2006a;Song et al, 2007;Torrent and Caldas, 2009; or underground (Dziadak et al, 2009) materials management, tool management (Goodrum et al, 2006), safety management (Umetani et al, 2006;Chen et al, 2007;Wang, 2008;Chae and Yoshida, 2010), project process management (Chin et al, 2008), and facility management (Ergen et al, 2007b;Ko, 2009). Li and Becerik-Gerber (2011) provided a comprehensive review and performance analysis of RFID-based indoor location sensing solutions for the built environment.…”

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Analysis of the variability of RSSI values for active RFID-based indoor applications

Çalış¹,

BECERİK-GERBER²,

GÖKTEPE³

et al. 2013

Turkish J Eng Env Sci

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The results indicate that different system parameters caused variations in RSSI values as well as the detectability rates.Nevertheless, different test beds changed the influence of each parameter on the RSSI values. It is concluded that testing environment is a prominent parameter that affects the results and fluctuations in the RSSI values, and that the detectability rates cannot be attributed to any specific parameter that has been included in this study.

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Enhancing construction quality inspection and management using RFID technology

Cited by 198 publications

References 14 publications

RFID Technology Applications with PMIS for Managing RMC Truck Operations

RFID Technology Applications with PMIS for Managing RMC Truck Operations

Design and implementation of an identification system in construction site safety for proactive accident prevention

Analysis of the variability of RSSI values for active RFID-based indoor applications

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