Utilizing industry 4.0 on the construction site: Challenges and opportunities

CJ Turner, J Oyekan, L Stergioulas… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, a step change has been seen in the rate of adoption of Industry 4.0
technologies by manufacturers and industrial organizations alike. This article discusses the …

Visualization technology-based construction safety management: A review

H Guo, Y Yu, M Skitmore - Automation in construction, 2017 - Elsevier
Construction safety management has been a popular issue in research and practice in
recent years due to the high accident and death rates in the construction industry. The …

Smart Working in Industry 4.0: How digital technologies enhance manufacturing workers' activities

J de Assis Dornelles, NF Ayala, AG Frank - Computers & Industrial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Prior studies have investigated the relationship between Industry 4.0 technologies and work.
This paper acknowledges the contributions of such studies and builds on their perspective to …

Real-time mixed reality-based visual warning for construction workforce safety

S Wu, L Hou, GK Zhang, H Chen - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
Spatial locations of personnel, equipment, and materials are constantly changing as
construction projects progress. The dynamic nature of the construction industry affects …

Computer vision applications in construction safety assurance

W Fang, L Ding, PED Love, H Luo, H Li… - Automation in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Advancements in the development of deep learning and computer vision-based approaches
have the potential to provide managers and engineers with the ability to improve the safety …

Transfer learning and deep convolutional neural networks for safety guardrail detection in 2D images

Z Kolar, H Chen, X Luo - Automation in Construction, 2018 - Elsevier
Safety has been a concern for the construction industry for decades. Unsafe conditions and
behaviors are considered as the major causes of construction accidents. The current safety …

Smartphone-based construction workers' activity recognition and classification

R Akhavian, AH Behzadan - Automation in Construction, 2016 - Elsevier
Understanding the state, behavior, and surrounding context of construction workers is
essential to effective project management and control. Exploiting the integrated sensors of …

Convolutional neural networks: Computer vision-based workforce activity assessment in construction

H Luo, C Xiong, W Fang, PED Love, B Zhang… - Automation in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Computer vision approaches have been widely used to automatically recognize the
activities of workers from videos. While considerable advancements have been made to …

ANN-based automated scaffold builder activity recognition through wearable EMG and IMU sensors

SS Bangaru, C Wang, SA Busam… - Automation in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Construction worker activity recognition is essential for worker performance and safety
assessment. With the development of wearable sensing technologies, many researchers …

Digital skin of the construction site: Smart sensor technologies towards the future smart construction site

R Edirisinghe - Engineering, Construction and Architectural …, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose The future construction site will be pervasive, context aware and embedded with
intelligence. The purpose of this paper is to explore and define the concept of the digital skin …