Computer vision and IoT research landscape for health and safety management on construction sites

Abstract

AimsPerform a systematic review of current literature to evaluate and summarise the health and safety hazards on construction sites. MethodsScience Direct, SCOPUS and web of science databases were searched for research articles published from 2013 to 2021. From an initial search of 350 research articles, we removed the duplicate articles and carried out an analysis of the abstract and full text that focused on health, safety, hazards, behaviour, on-site health and safety and the digital technologies leaving a total of 66 studies included. ResultsComputer vision and Internet of Things (IoT) are the dominant technologies for health and safety management. A comparison of the two technologies reveals that computer vision is dominant because of its non-intrusive approach to data collection; thus, supporting the scalability of computer vision approach at the expense of cost and development time. It will help to prevent on-site health and safety hazards and injuries on construction site. ConclusionComputer vision offers non-intrusive benefits over Internet of Things (IoT); being able to detect the health and safety hazards. Computer vision has proved to be beneficial for better accuracy prediction, real time data monitoring, and model development for onsite health and safety analytics on the construction site.