Abstract
RFID is used in many areas of commerce, and in some areas of the construction industry. Prefabricated, prefinished volumetric construction (PPVC) is one area of the construction industry that can benefit from the use of RFID. The full benefits cannot be realised by the use of RFID alone. RFID needs to be coupled with Building Information Modelling (BIM). This paper outlines a framework of marrying the two technologies in constructing PPVC from the drawing stage to the delivery on site and then to the final installation of the unit. The benefits of this union are in material stock control, part location tracking, production scheduling and re-scheduling, among other things.
Highlights
RFID’s origins can be traced to the work on RADAR during the second world war [1, 2]
Since the 1970s, RFID usage has grown to fill almost every corner and aspect of life, including agriculture and livestock, defence and security, healthcare and welfare, transportation and identification system [4]. It was as long ago as 1995 that Jaselskis et al [5] discussed the use of RFID tags in the construction industry
The marrying of RFID technology with Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the area of PPVC allows a systematic approach to monitoring, managing and optimizing all aspects of the factory environment, delivery to site and installation of modules
Summary
RFID’s origins can be traced to the work on RADAR during the second world war [1, 2]. Active RFID tags have a battery as a power source. John Eynon defines BIM as “Building Information Modelling is the digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility creating a shared knowledge resource for information about it and forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life cycle, from earliest conception to demolition” [7]. This is the working definition used in this paper. Tags become temporally active when they receive “power” from an RFID reader.
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