Mobile Devices as a Tool for Digitalized Project Documentation and Inspection

Consumer-grade mobile devices—including smartphones, tablets, peripheral devices, and Rovers—are increasingly used as innovative tools in construction project delivery, documentation, and inspection. Advances in camera technology combined with increased accuracy in geolocation, graphical displays, and LiDAR abilities provide a powerful construction technology that is also widely accessible and used by most construction professionals on jobsites.

NCHRP Synthesis 635: Mobile Devices as a Tool for Digitized Project Documentation and Inspection, from TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program, documents practices of state departments of transportation for using mobile devices to support digitized project delivery, documentation, and inspection.