IoT and 5G enabled construction detection model

Abstract

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) introduced positive changes to some industries, while for most construction industries it is still enthusiastically anticipated. The 4IR focusing on the construction industry in literature is known as Construction 4.0. The Construction 4.0 concept is invoked to transform the current ways the construction industry operates while ensuring benefits, such as reduced overall construction projects’ costs and duration, improved quality and work safety, etc. Due to the increasing web usage, it is anticipated that the 4IR technologies will achieve full potentials by the uprising of the fifth generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks (i.e. 5G). One of the most important 4IR technologies is found to be the Internet of Things (IoT). In this perspective, a construction monitoring approach, more precisely a model for construction detection and object spatial/time positioning, is presented in this paper. While still in its initial phase, the model was tested and verified in the laboratory environment for small-scale object detection. It was found that the quality of the model will be significantly improved with the use of the 5G network, while the objects’ pool, as big data required for the model’s deep learning, is highly dependent on the IoT.

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