Smart Construction Objects

Autor: Ke Chen, Chimay J. Anumba, Yuhan Niu, George G. Huang, Weisheng Lu
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. 30
ISSN: 1943-5487
0887-3801
DOI: 10.1061/(asce)cp.1943-5487.0000550
Popis: The primary aim of this research is to define smart construction objects (SCOs), the fundamental building blocks of future construction. SCOs are construction resources (e.g., machinery, device, and materials) that are made smart by augmenting them with technologies conferring autonomy, awareness, and the ability to interact with their vicinity. This smartness can enable better decision making in construction. Understanding of SCOs, however, is still in its infancy. Informed by theories on ubiquitous computing and general smart objects, this paper first defines the panoramic and interconnected properties that differentiate SCOs from conventional construction objects. Second, representative scenarios of the use of SCOs are given to illustrate the new workflow with enhanced smartness in the future. Next, using prefabrication construction as an example, this paper further elaborates SCOs using Industry Foundation Classes Extensible Markup Language and exploring their software/hardware representations...
Databáze: OpenAIRE