Your mind may automatically think of electronics or the medical industry when you talk about technological innovations. But now, several technological innovations are also adopted by the construction industry for the last few years.
Innovative technologies are usually adopted by the construction industry whenever they faced any challenging situations. These innovative technologies have helped this industry improve in planning, designing, and developing high-rise buildings and various other projects of complex nature.
The information provided in this write-up will help you to the technological innovations used by road flare in its construction projects to improve the speed and quality of their work.
Humanoid Laborers
The shortage of labor has affected the progress of various labor-oriented industries. In response to this shortage of laborers, a humanoid robot HRP-5P has been developed by researchers in Japan, which can physically perform basic tasks performed by human laborers like independent installation of drywall, etc.
Similarly, some of the semi-automatic robots like Tybot, etc., can be used to tie bars on large projects like bridges in almost half the time taken by human laborers. They can also help in reducing the risk to human laborers when deployed on dangerous tasks.
LiDAR
These are light detection and ranging sensors that can scan a worksite’s surrounding environment to give real-time 3D high-resolution images when mounted on construction equipment. It reduces the chances of hurting laborers as it allows them to perform their duty from a distant point.
This technology is mostly used in dangerous industries in the US like logging etc. However, this sensor may not work effectively in the rain, heavy dust, fog, or snow.
Drones
For the last few years, drones are popularly used in the construction industry, especially while building high-rise buildings. They help improve the speed of work by keeping an eye on laborers and equipment used on site remotely.
They can help monitor security breaches and malfunctioning of equipment so that they can be managed as soon as possible and set back to the performance can be controlled.
Robot Swarms
Hundreds of small robots are combined to make robot swarms work together, but they are different from humanoid robots that almost work like human beings. A research group of Harvard on self-organizing systems has designed and developed a small four-wheeled swarm that can be used to operate an organized unit to perform various tasks a construction sites like laying bricks or repair flooded infrastructure or work at hardly reachable locations etc.
SmartBoots
These boots of one of the innovative wearable technologies that are used at construction sites to measure the level of fatigue of the laborer. They can also help in preventing accidents by communicating with heavy equipment and alert responders at the time of emergency. The steps taken by the workers can generate energy to power up these boots.
They can instantly recognize the worker when he enters the site so that the site-manager can assign him to a task automatically due to the RFID devices included in these boots. Along with the construction industry, these boots can also be used in various other industries and military to ensure the personnel and workers’ safety.
Connected Hardhats
Hardhats usually are worn on construction sites to protect the heads of the people working there, but these innovative and technologically advanced connected hardhats can also cleverly capture photos and monitor the heart rate of the wearer.
An upgraded kit of connected hardhats has been recently released with a range of advanced safety features by Shimbun, a Japanese company. These hats are equipped with devices to monitor motion, temperature, and the wearer’s location to know whether he is overheated or lightheaded.
Wearable AR
This application includes a combination of AR and IoT technologies that can allow workers to use scans of the surrounding site to generate structural models or access building plans without using their hands. It can also allow designers and workers to make modifications on the site or measure distances independently.
Smart Infrastructure
The monitoring system of this technology allows you to monitor the weakness and strength of a structure by using its sensors instead of using human eyes. they can also predict problems in a structure in advance so that necessary maintenance can be done before a dangerous situation occurs.
