Automation in Construction Management: Automated management of Construction Materials Using RFID Technology

Construction industry is both highly complex and fragmented compared to other industries, because its products are unique in its construction type, project participants, and location. Modern construction management require collection, analysis and real-time communication of accurate information among all the parties involved. In order to automate the task of materials management, this book proposed a new integrated approach for real-time data collection in construction using automated advanced and data storage technologies for the identification, collection, storage, transmission, and presentation of information using RFID technology. Automated data collection technologies are bound to approach paperless construction and to modernise information collection and sharing, and undoubtedly have a profound impact on effective management of construction activities. The proposed integrated system can facilitate extremely low-cost and infrastructure-free solutions to uniquely identify materials, components, and equipment and to track them in three phases, namely; production sites (off-site), shipping (en-route), and construction job sites (on-site) almost instantaneously.