Wearable technology for personalized construction safety monitoring and trending: Review of applicable devices

Awolusi, Ibukun; Marks, Eric; Hallowell, Matthew R.

doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2017.10.010

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“…With reference to the context of South Africa, the study also suggests that CSM could benefit from increased exploitation of technology. findings are supported by historical and recent literature such as Kim et al (2013), Lin et al (2014), han and golparvarfard (2015), Akhavian and Behzadan (2016), hwanga and Leeb (2017), Awolusia, Marksb andhallowell (2017), fang et al (2018) and Dong et al (2018).…”

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confidence: 84%

Process Need Areas and Technology Adoption in Construction Site Management

Ozumba¹,

Ojiako²,

Shakantu³

et al. 2019

JCDC

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The study explores the areas of process need in construction site management and technology utilisation to address those needs within the construction industry. An exploratory case study was used, with a focus on process need areas that could be impacted by technology infusion. Results highlight the impact of human limitations on management performance and poor utilisation of available relevant technology in the presence of managerial lapses. Inherent limitations of case study strategy were experienced in the form of number of cases and achieving uniformity of features. Nevertheless, the cases provided rich cross-validating data. The article provides empirical insights about the possibility of construction site management benefiting from increased exploitation of technology to address management shortcomings. The article highlights the need to understand individual projects in terms of site management process needs and opportunities in recent information and communication technology (ICT) to address such need areas, by linking potential utility in technology to lapses in the management process of construction sites. The study provides a baseline understanding of relevant concepts of ICT adoption in site management. While considerable interest exists regarding technology use in construction, studies explicitly contextualised within process need areas in site management and with management-centred view remain sparse.

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confidence: 84%

Process Need Areas and Technology Adoption in Construction Site Management

Ozumba¹,

Ojiako²,

Shakantu³

et al. 2019

JCDC

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“…Adopting this categorization, the useful technologies for smart cities are (i) network and office work technologies as highly penetrated information technologies (IT) and information and communication technologies (ICT) influencing human productivity, e-commerce, urban services [37], e-government [45], agriculture, and e-banking in smart cities. Recently, many communication technologies have arisen, such as social media [46], Skype, Teams, and Zooms which are known to be useful for working from home or working remotely which are critical for smarter cities; (ii) design technologies such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) [11,47], Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and CyberGIS [18,48]; (iii) sensing technologies such as wearable sensors [49], RFID [50,51], IoT sensors, real time locating systems (RTLS) [52], laser scanners [22], GPS, Radar, cameras for smart transportation, smart parking, and smart construction (job-site management, tracking materials, site management, physical progress monitoring, and productivity, safety, emission [53,54], security, and remote controlling devices and diagnostic systems attached or imbedded in heavy equipment such as Grader or Crane); (iv) production technologies such as 3D Printing [55,56]; and (v) virtual technologies such as mixed reality and digital twin.…”

Section: Smart Cities Including Smart Elementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Twin and CyberGIS for Improving Connectivity and Measuring the Impact of Infrastructure Construction Planning in Smart Cities

Shirowzhan

Tan

Sepasgozar

2020

IJGI

134

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Smart technologies are advancing, and smart cities can be made smarter by increasing the connectivity and interactions of humans, the environment, and smart devices. This paper discusses selective technologies that can potentially contribute to developing an intelligent environment and smarter cities. While the connectivity and efficiency of smart cities is important, the analysis of the impact of construction development and large projects in the city is crucial to decision and policy makers, before the project is approved. This raises the question of assessing the impact of a new infrastructure project on the community prior to its commencement—what type of technologies can potentially be used for creating a virtual representation of the city? How can a smart city be improved by utilizing these technologies? There are a wide range of technologies and applications available but understanding their function, interoperability, and compatibility with the community requires more discussion around system designs and architecture. These questions can be the basis of developing an agenda for further investigations. In particular, the need for advanced tools such as mobile scanners, Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Geospatial Augmented Reality apps, Light Detection, and Ranging in smart cities is discussed. In line with smart city technology development, this Special Issue includes eight accepted articles covering trending topics, which are briefly reviewed.

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“…If exoskeletons achieved reductions in the mechanical stressors associated with MMH tasks, they would have the potential to reduce high rates of WMSDs seen in many industries. A number of studies have been published about the use of exoskeletons in reducing MSDs in steel manufacturing, construction, and automobile manufacturing and healthcare …”

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Industrial exoskeletons: Need for intervention effectiveness research

Howard

Murashov

Lowe

et al. 2019

American J Industrial Med

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Exoskeleton devices are being introduced across several industry sectors to augment, amplify, or reinforce the performance of a worker's existing body components-primarily the lower back and the upper extremity. Industrial exoskeletons may play a role in reducing work-related musculoskeletal disorders arising from lifting and handling heavy materials or from supporting heavy tools in overhead work. However, wearing an exoskeleton may pose a number of risks that are currently not well-studied. There are only a few studies about the safety and health implications of wearable exoskeletons and most of those studies involve only a small number of participants. Before the widespread implementation of industrial exoskeletons occurs, there is need for prospective interventional studies to evaluate the safety and health effectiveness of exoskeletons across various industry sectors. Developing a research strategy to fill current safety and health knowledge gaps, understanding the benefits, risks, and barriers to adoption of industrial exoskeletons, determining whether exoskeleton can be considered a type of personal protective equipment, and advancing consensus standards that address exoskeleton safety, should be major interests of both the occupational safety and health research and practice communities. K E Y W O R D S exoskeleton, human augmentation, intervention effectiveness, PPE

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Wearable technology for personalized construction safety monitoring and trending: Review of applicable devices

Cited by 371 publications

References 51 publications

Process Need Areas and Technology Adoption in Construction Site Management

Process Need Areas and Technology Adoption in Construction Site Management

Digital Twin and CyberGIS for Improving Connectivity and Measuring the Impact of Infrastructure Construction Planning in Smart Cities

Industrial exoskeletons: Need for intervention effectiveness research

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