TY - JOUR
T1 - An Internet of Things-enabled BIM platform for on-site assembly services in prefabricated construction
AU - Li, Clyde Zhengdao
AU - Xue, Fan
AU - Li, Xiao
AU - Hong, Jingke
AU - Shen, Geoffrey Qiping
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the HKSAR ITC/LSCM R&D Centre for funding this research through the Innovation and Technology Support Programme (Project Reference: ITP/045/13LP ). This research was also supported by National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2016YFC070200504 and No. 2016YFC070160106 ) and the start-up research funding for new teachers from Shenzhen University (No. 2018025 ). The Research Team is also grateful to the Hong Kong Housing Authority and its contractors for supporting and participating in this research via real project applications.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018/5
Y1 - 2018/5
N2 - Building Information Modelling (BIM) serves as a useful tool in facilitating the on-site assembly services (OAS) of prefabricated construction for its benefits of powerful management of physical and functional digital presentations. However, the benefits of using BIM in the OAS of prefabricated construction cannot be cultivated with an incomplete, inaccurate, and untimely data exchange and lack of real-time visibility and traceability. To deal with these challenges, an Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled platform is designed by integrating IoT and BIM for prefabricated public housing projects in Hong Kong. The demands of the stakeholders were analysed; then smart construction objects (SCOs) and smart gateway are defined and designed to collect real-time data throughout the working processes of on-site assembly of prefabricated construction using the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The captured data is uploaded to cloud in real-time to process and analyse for decision support purposes for the involved site managers and workers. Visibility and traceability functions are developed with BIM and virtual reality (VR) technologies, through which managers can supervise the construction progress and approximate cost information in a real-time manner. The IoT-enabled platform can provide various decision support tools and services to different stakeholders, for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of daily operations, decision making, collaboration, and supervision throughout on-site assembly processes of prefabricated construction.
AB - Building Information Modelling (BIM) serves as a useful tool in facilitating the on-site assembly services (OAS) of prefabricated construction for its benefits of powerful management of physical and functional digital presentations. However, the benefits of using BIM in the OAS of prefabricated construction cannot be cultivated with an incomplete, inaccurate, and untimely data exchange and lack of real-time visibility and traceability. To deal with these challenges, an Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled platform is designed by integrating IoT and BIM for prefabricated public housing projects in Hong Kong. The demands of the stakeholders were analysed; then smart construction objects (SCOs) and smart gateway are defined and designed to collect real-time data throughout the working processes of on-site assembly of prefabricated construction using the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The captured data is uploaded to cloud in real-time to process and analyse for decision support purposes for the involved site managers and workers. Visibility and traceability functions are developed with BIM and virtual reality (VR) technologies, through which managers can supervise the construction progress and approximate cost information in a real-time manner. The IoT-enabled platform can provide various decision support tools and services to different stakeholders, for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of daily operations, decision making, collaboration, and supervision throughout on-site assembly processes of prefabricated construction.
KW - BIM
KW - Decision support system
KW - Internet of Things
KW - On-site assembly services
KW - Prefabricated construction
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U2 - 10.1016/j.autcon.2018.01.001
DO - 10.1016/j.autcon.2018.01.001
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85041490568
SN - 0926-5805
VL - 89
SP - 146
EP - 161
JO - Automation in Construction
JF - Automation in Construction
ER -