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 Proceedings of the 11th INDIACom; INDIACom-2017; IEEE Conference ID: 40353
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Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi (INDIA)
Application of Internet of Things in Civil Engineering
construction projects- A State of the Art
Viren B. Chandanshive
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Vidyavardhini’s College of Engineering and Technology,
Vasai (W), Palghar District, Maharashtra, India
virenchandanshive@gmail.com
Abstract — Internet of things is an unified division of
imminent internet consisting combination of prevailing and rapid
development of network. IoT is the branch of Information
Technology which generates a connectivity link between
“Internet” and actual physical ‘Things”. IoT intensions to
amalgamate everything under common infrastructure and
provide not only the control over everything but also defines
provides the actual status of things. This article addresses the
basic notion of Internet of Things, reviews and application of IoT
in the civil engineering construction projects. The renown of the
review is on two important civil engineering application areas of
Internet of Things. The core intent of the study is to present an
indication about various applications of Internet of Things for the
development of Smart City Infrastructure & Smart dwelling
construction projects. This study provides future scenarios of
Internet of Things technology and also it simplifies the knowledge
about the various applications in civil engineering projects.
Keywords—IoT; Smart City; Infrastructre; Smart Dwelling;
Sensors; Construction Pojects.
I. INTRODUCTION
The connection link between the Internet and physical
things make available to admittance the control over physical
things from well-defined or possible distance under common
infrastructure and to accesses the sensor data. ‘Smart
things/objects’ plays vital role in the Internet of Things which
interact and communicate the information and also it is
possible to exchange database by using the Internet. A large
Network will develop by Internet of Things with number of
wireless perceptible “things” interactive with one another and
participating the developments. The Ambient Intelligence,
insidious computing and omnipresent computing concepts are
basically adopted in the IoT. This article reviews the various
application of IoT in the Smart City development, construction
of Smart Home and also different building automation
projects.
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Arbaz M. Kazi
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Vidyavardhini’s College of Engineering and Technology,
Vasai (W), Palghar District, Maharashtra, India
kazi.mubarak@vcet.edu.in
II. A SYNOPSIS ON INTERNET OF THINGS
A. Definition, Architecture of Internet of Things
According to group of Research Projects in Europe,
“Internet of Things (IoT) is an unified part of outlook internet
and could be defined as a vibrant universal set of connections
with self-armature potentials customary for typical plus
interoperable message etiquette wherever corporeal plus
implicit “things” have identity, material impute, as well as
implicit disposition along with smart interface, which are
flawlessly incorporated into the information network”.
Can view Any
context Anytime
Can be used Can be used by
on Any Device Anyone
Internet
of
Things Can be adopted
Can be used at for Any business
Any Place and
Any Time
Work on Any
Network or Any
Path
Fig. 1. Consents of Internet of Things
Fig. 1 depicts the consents of the inhabitants and possessions
that can be linked at any given time, at any place, with any
person, using some network plus some broadband utility.
B. Techonology, Softwares & Hardware
Before defining the technology consideration of Internet of
Thing’s vision is very important step which must be satisfy the
interaction between the human and environment. The
architecture of Internet of Things should be constructed above
a network frame which assimilates cabled and mobile
technology in a translucent as well as unified form. The vision
of IoT, connectivity between the physical world and Internet
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can be satisfied by the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), various parameters of IoT like required network size, energy,
Short domain mobile technology and Sensor networks. Now types of Internet connectivity, etc are mentioned for solving
days more research is going on the Wireless network the Smart Environmental projects.
technologies which is having capability to deliver
inconspicuous wire-free communication. Various technology TABLE II. SMART ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATION OF IOT
must be provided for the collection of database about the
physical thing (Environment) and the effective object IoT
Smart Home Smart City Smart Water
Smart
monitoring. Parameters Transportation
Size of
The applicability and interaction between the Physical Undersized Intermediate Huge Huge
Netwok
Things and Internet should be realized by installing Limited,
Several, Not many,
appropriate software to manage the network through restricted to Big, mostly by
No. of Users General mostly access
family common civic
completely its resources, devices and distributed services. In members
Public to Government
the case of failure of system, the software should manage and Revivable
Revivable
forecast the self-configuration and auto-recovery. Energy make Revivable Battery, Energy
Battery, Energy
up Battery Energy Reaping
Reaping
After defining a proper technology and software the Reaping
hardware selection becomes difficult task in IoT. The research Source of Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G Wi-Fi, 3G, Wi-Fi,
Wi-Fi, Satellite
Internet LTE 4G LTE Satellite
still is required to develop hardware having radical, small Data Confined Mutual
Mutual Device Mutual Device
energy, multi-purpose structure on a part that will have the management Device Device
ability of self-adaptiveness and self-organization. The devoted Single sensors,
Gadget RFID, WSN RFID, WSN Single Sensors
RFID, WSN
algorithm can be used in the chip set of hardware system with Bit-rate Intermediate /
Undersized Undersized Intermediate
an ultra-low power very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits. requirements Huge

III. APPLICATION OF INTERNET OF THING TO BUILD SMART

ENVIRONMENT B. Applications of IoT in Design of Smart Home
The Internet of Things introduces a new interface amid
human and programme concluded the new dimension of This section introduces a systematic review of scholarly
Things, communication and amalgamation. Furthermore the research articles published on the design and development of
term “Things” is considered as product and IoT measures its smart home construction.
condition. The major application domain of IoT are Industry,
B. Li and J. Yu (2011) proposed design of a smart home
Environment and Society. Table I shows some examples of
system and service component technologies based on IoT.
IoT application domain.
They also overview on the current situation of IOT. They
developed and applied a method based on service-oriented
architecture (SOA) and integrant technology in smart home
TABLE I. APPLICATION DOMAIN OF IOT design. Also, discussed on the diverse information synthesis of
IoT.
IoT Application Domain
Sr.
No. IOT
Description Examples G. Choung et al. (2011) introduced a smart dwelling
Domain system establish on B/S width i.e. (Browse/Server) for the
Finance Management Manufacturing Industries,
between firms, logistics, service sector, execution of IoT in the design of smart homes. Different
1 Industry organizations and other banks, Private financial attributes and limitations of smart home system were also
components Institutes, etc. evaluated. With the aid of (WSN) i.e. wireless sensor network,
Environmental Impact
input is sent to home page of network and the household
Environ
Natural resources
Assessment services, devices are controlled accessibly and partly. Finally, they
2 protection, monitoring
ment
and development
Agricultural development, concluded that this system is very effective & economical for
energy supervision, etc. smart home system.
Services offered by
Smart City Government towards K. Bing et al. (2011) proposed an IoT based smart home
3 Society development, Smart citizens and other society systems to achieve home luxury, relaxation and most important
Home structures, e-governance
schemes etc. safety. They concluded that the use of embedded system and
ZIGBEE technologies along with 3G network to forecast
detached functions, inferior mobility, feeble upgrading
A. Smart Environment Applications of IoT potency, and dependence of personal computer for current
smart home system. Smart home system architecture be
The core objective of this review is to present diverse presented along with proper hardware and software.
application of IoT in civil engineering projects. This section
discusses various applications of IoT in Smart Home, Smart Piyare R. (2013) introduced a economical plus flexible
City, Smart Water Supply management and Smart home supervision and auditing system by means of an
Transportation civil engineering projects. Table II shows entrenched mini-web server. A Smart phone app made on
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Android platform is used for access and supervising gadget.
He concludes that there is no requirement of any dedicated
server PC and it also offers innovative announcement etiquette
to scrutinize and supervise home surroundings. Different types
of sensors like temperature sensor and current sensor, light
switches and power plug are integrated in the design of home
control system.
M. Soliman et al. (2013) presented an effective approach to
the IoT consisting of web services and Cloud computing
techniques for developments of Smart Home applications. This
approach included an emphasis of sensors with intelligence,
Zigbee technology for smart networking, Cloud services
application for interactions of smart things and JSON data
format for the improvement of data exchange efficiency. This
approach is applied in smart home for the measurement of
atmospheric conditions at home, supervision of home gadgets,
and managing home ingress.
C. Applications of IoT in Development of Smart City
This section introduces a systematic review of scholarly
research articles published on the design and development of
smart city.
N. Mitton et al. (2012) contributed the design of a
universal infrastructure for the development of Smart City
with interaction between new generation services like
intelligent mobile gadgets, sensors, family gadgets, gadgets
comprising of RFID along with surrounding environment. It
will also create novel moments for scrutinizing and
geographical awareness. The framework of IoT has been
formed on concepts of Web Sensor Empowerment
specifications and the (COs) i.e. Contiki Operating System.
N. Komninose et al. (2013) introduced new strategies to the
European cities to become a Smart Cities by using system
groundwork and gadgets based on internet. They created
applications working on internet in every sector of the market
& society as well as mutual novel kinds of partnership amid
domestic governments, research institutes, as well as firms.
These developed opportunities in addition to the
consequential "innovation ecosystems" works in the growth
of economy and created more opportunities to cities. They
investigated these strategies in four different city and analysis
is carried out about the strategies and forecasted the
prospects of the Future Internet benefits on the socio-
economic development of urban areas. Also, started to
investigate about the involvement of citizens for the open
innovation and interest to smart city investors.
A. Jara et al. (2013) presented an appropriate mechanism
for worldwide resource detection and effective accessibility
of device for arrayed elegant stuff in diverse states, sensors
and devices from end users. They maximized efficiency and
sustainability of deployments by applying amalgamation of
bequest and sensors as a smart thing and defined it as a
“digcovery”. They developed architecture of locating in such
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way that which is able to access the on hand assets through
cell phone location under common infrastructure. The so
developed cell phone location has ability to exploit the
situation awareness, geographical location, plus recognition
technology presented in cell phone platforms such as
smartphones to ascertain, relate, and right to use resources.
Al-Hader and Rodzi (2009) through their work concluded
that the foremost lead of implementing smart system
structure is perceptibly reflecting the quantity of power,
economy and reduction in both performance and assets fee.
The Intelligent systems are developed to cut the cost plus
intended to aid in conservation & corporal actions accepted
in civic overhaul. On such stage of expense, this method can
perceptibly augment for return of asset within short epoch of
time. On contrary the smart surroundings use to depict the
users by allotting them extra control and assets that can
manage property. Cozy built surroundings would add to the
structure ability, accessibility where it can augment
effectiveness for every user. The elegant system will deploy
superior capable citizens and can boost the acquaintance of
the users. Instead of facts trade-off, the facts communication
will be transferred more rapidly due to the systems
amalgamation along with general communiqué etiquette
used all along the town, neighborhood and premises
programmed controller. Appropriate scheming & supervision
of surroundings would provide an automation level which in
turn will need fewer consumer relations with continuance and
process call centre which in turn leads to lesser amount of
complaints.
IV. CONCLUSION
Due to rapid development in the field of Technology and
Internet, IoT brings a new era to the information technology.
This study covered wide range application of IoT in Design
and development of smart habitat as well as fruitfully
overviews over the growth of IoT architecture to the Smart
City. In coming years the concept of IoT in Smart City as well
as Smart dwelling will be adopted ubiquitously.
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