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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.

ty inspection result virtually.

**9. Recommendations**

suited to jobsite safety management.

280 Radio Frequency Identification from System to Applications

Building information modeling (BIM) is one of the most promising recent developments in the AEC industry. In the future, application of BIM can be considered and integrated for bet‐ ter and advanced jobsite safety inspection and management. Furthermore, the application of BIM will be a viable approach to jobsite safety management during the construction phase of a construction project. The BIM approach, which is utilized to retain visual status of safe‐ ty condition in a digital format, facilitates effective safety management in the 3D CAD envi‐ ronment. The BIM provides users with an overview of current jobsite safety inspection result during a given construction project, such that users can track and manage jobsite safe‐

Recommendations for implementing the proposed system in the future are given below.

**•** Cost is a currently significant factor limiting the widespread use of RFID tags in the con‐ struction industry. Passive tags are cheaper than active tags. Therefore, passive tags are

**•** The smartphone screen is not large enough for operating the RFIDSIM system fluently. The system should be redesigned and developed to be suitable for the smartphone screen.

**•** In this study, the major characteristic is that users can apply the RFIDSIM system without purchasing additional RFID reader. Currently, this system is developed for Google An‐

droid system and will be developed for Apple i-phone system in the future.

Yu-Cheng Lin, Yu-Chih Su, Nan-Hai Lo, Weng-Fong Cheung and Yen-Pei Chen

National Taipei University of Technology, Civil Engineering, Taiwan
