**8. Conclusions**

**Figure 9.** displayed safety staff used RFID-enabled smartphone to scan RFID tags and edited the description in the

**Figure 10.** displayed project manager entered the RFIDSIM system and accessed the safety inspection result.

smartphone.

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This study presents a Mobile RFID-based safety inspection management (RFIDSIM) system that incorporates RFID technology and mobile devices to improve the effectiveness and con‐ venience of information flow during construction phase of construction project. The RFID‐ SIM system not only improves the acquisition of data on safety inspection result efficiency using RFID-enabled smartphones, but also provides a real time service platform during safety inspection progress. In the case study, plugging a RFID scanner into a smartphone creates a powerful portable data collection tool. Additionally, RFID readings increase the ac‐ curacy and speed of information search, indirectly enhancing performance and productivi‐ ty. Safety staff members use RFID-enabled smartphones to enhance seamlessly inspection work processes at checkpoints locations, owing to its searching speed and ability to support detail information during the process. Meanwhile, on the server side, the RFIDSIM system offers a hub center to provide jobsite management division with real-time to monitor the jobsite safety progress. In a case study, the application of the RFIDSIM system helps to im‐ prove the process of jobsite safety inspection and management work for the construction jobsite in Taiwan. Based on experimental result, this study demonstrated that HF passive RFID technology has significant potential to enhance jobsite safety inspection and manage‐ ment work in construction management. The integration of real-time inspection information from jobsite safety checkpoints helps safety staff members to track and control the whole in‐ spection management progress. Compared with current methods, the combined results demonstrate that, an RFIDSIM system can be a useful RFID-based jobsite safety inspection management platform by utilizing the RFID approach and web technology.

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