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| Title | Providing Presence and Activity Awareness in Construction Inspection Activities |
| Authors | Juan RodrÃguez-Covili, Sergio Ochoa |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Abstract | Construction inspection activities usually involve teams of inspectors that are moving into a construction site to identify deficiencies in the physical facilities. They work in a loosely-coupled way, therefore they periodically require to perform on-demand collaboration activities. In such cases, it is highly important to identify the position and availability of the potential collaborators in the field. This location process must be done quickly because of productivity reasons. Since such a process is conducted mainly in indoor facilities, GPS-based solutions are not suitable to support that activity. Trying to deal with that issue, this article proposes a mobile collaborative system, named Moware, which provides presence and activity awareness that helps inspectors to locate people in the field. The proposed solution runs on tablet PCs and smartphones supported by mobile ad hoc networks. The services provided by Moware can be reused by other computing applications that support loosely-coupled mobile work in several areas, such as hospital work, emergency responses or social networking |
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| Conference name | International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag (Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany) |
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