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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.

Abstract-Minimizing energy consumption to maximize network lifetime is one of the crucial concerns in designing wireless sensor network routing protocols. Cluster-based protocols have shown promising energy-efficiency performance, where sensor nodes take turns to act as cluster heads (CHs), which carry out higher-level data routing and relaying. In such case the energy consumption is more evenly distributed for all the nodes. However, most cluster-based protocols improve energy-efficiency at the cost of transmission delay. In this paper, we propose an improved delay-aware and energy-efficient clustered protocol called Hamilton Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol (HEER). HEER forms clusters in the network initialization phase and links members in each cluster on a Hamilton Path, constructed using a greedy algorithm, for data transmission purpose. No cluster reformation is required and the members on the path will take turns to become cluster head. The design allows HEER to save on network administration energy and also balance the load comparing to traditional cluster-based protocols. The algorithms designed in HEER also means that it does not suffer long delay and does not require each node to have global location information comparing with classic chain-based protocols such as PEGASIS and its variations. We implemented the HEER protocol in MATLAB simulation and compared it with several cluster-based and chain-based protocols. We found that HEER is able to achieve an improved network lifetime over the current protocols while maintaining the average data transmission delay. In the simulation, HEER achieved 66.5% and 40.6% more rounds than LEACH and LEACH-EE, which are cluster-based protocols. When compared with chain-based protocols (PEGASIS and Intra-grid-PEGSIS), HEER managed 21.2 times and 16.7 times more rounds than PEGASIS and Intra-grid-PEGASIS respectively. In addition, HEER can eliminated 90% of transmission delay comparing to LEACH and LEACH-EE and 99% comparing with PEGASIS and Intra-grid-PEGASIS. Wireless communication is one of the major power consuming activities on SNs and its usage is controlled mainly by the routing protocol in action. An appropriate protocol design is therefore crucial for minimizing the energy consumption. There are three main types of routing protocols in WSNs, namely flat, hierarchical and location based protocols. KeywordsIn Flat routing protocol, all nodes communicate in a peer-to-peer manner without any hierarchy in the structure. The advantage is having a simple, expandable and low maintenance structure. However, it lacks local and central management of communication resource and usually suffers from long and varied delay.Location-based routing protocols, on the other hand, take in consideration of the location of SNs. Relative coordinates of neighbouring nodes can be extracted from the RF communication between them or, in some cases, by incorporating on-board GPS [3]. However, location tracking devices are huge energy consumers and their performance drops in harsh environme...