Integrated BIM & IoT for AEC Industry

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What is BIM?

O BIM (Building Information Modeling) is an established paradigm for the growth of improved project delivery methods. O BIM-centric project delivery for AEC professionals helps in creating high fidelity & accurate identifiable building component data with descriptive & operable metadata.

What is IoT?

O IoT (Internet of Things) is an interconnection of sensing & activating devices delivering capacity to share information through an integrated framework. O IoT develops a shared operating image for innovative applications. O IoT encompasses sensing, identification & recognition technologies along with hardware, software, cloud platforms, communication technologies, algorithms, data processing solutions, energy storage, and security appliances. O IoT exploits standard protocols & technologies, out of which IoT device constitutes to be the main subset. O Typical IoT devices comprise intelligent & smart mobile devices, single board computers, different sensors & actuators.

BIM & IoT Integration – A New Development

O BIM & IoT provide complementary views of the project complementing the limitations of each. O Integrating geometry, spatial location and scalable metadata properties, 3D BIM models provide a high-fidelity operable dataset seizing the as-designed building objects, properties & spatial organization as a set of virtual assets. O Both BIM & IoT information can be accessed through various mechanisms, like manual interfaces of proprietary systems, programming APIs allied to applications, potential database links to the systems, and export via open standards. O BIM and IoT devices are adopted in various aspects of energy management, construction monitoring, health & safety management, and building management.

BIM & IoT Integration for Construction Domains

O Construction Operation & Monitoring O Health & Safety Management O Construction Logistics & Management O Facility Management

Construction Operation & Monitoring

O On-site environment monitoring - Real-time sensory inputs capturing realistic environmental conditions, combined with BIM models to calculate equipment operator's instruction O Resource Monitoring - Sensors like Bluetooth Low Energy sensors & motion sensors used to track the movement of labors, materials, equipment in complex construction sites incorporated with BIM models to visualize moving paths, monitoring resource status & labor behaviors O Communication & Collaboration - BIM model could be correlated with realtime construction data captured from IoT tags, sensors & mobile devices to enable in-time communication & collaboration among various parties. O Construction Performance & Progress Monitoring - Integrated with BIM models, data could be leveraged to monitor construction process & update construction schedules for instance, Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) & GPS sensors can be used to collect data position of construction components for comparison against BIM models

Health & Safety Management

O Health & Safety Training - Sensor collected location data and BIM models were used to analyze safety & productivity, providing realtime & post-event visualization through a VR environment O Onsite Monitoring for Health & Safety - IoT devices integrated with BIM tools help to achieve real-time data query, risk identification , visualization & notification over BIM models

Construction Logistics & Management

O Automation in Prefabrication - . BIM and IoT devices like RFID tags are effective tools for prefabricated component manufacturing, logistic, tracking, visualization with BIM model and automatic assembly O Lean Construction - Digital technologies like

IoT and BIM can assess work progress, constraints & productivity using constant & reliable information flow, expediting the development of Lean Construction

Facility Management

O Building Operation & Maintenance: BIM integrated with IoT devices can create beneficial platforms for assisting O&M practices like real-time data access, checking maintainability, creating & updating digital assets & space management O Building Performance Management: BIM enables interoperability, visualization, automation & integration with IoT devices, facilitating real-time management of building performance data O Energy Management: BIM for Energy Management was focused on real-time energy usage visualization & monitoring at building and city scale, energy performance analysis & energy benchmarking O Disaster Management: BIM & various types of sensors can be effectively used in disaster & emergency response both at the building and urban scale