Roadway construction sites are potentially dangerous work zones and pose a significant challenge to contractors and State Highway Agencies for maintaining adequate safety of workers and the traveling … [Read more...] about A Study of a Traffic Controlling Robot for Safer Work Zones
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Utilizing Industry 4.0 on the Construction Site: Challenges and Opportunities
In recent years a step change has been seen in the rate of adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies by manufacturers and industrial organizations alike. This paper discusses the current state of the art … [Read more...] about Utilizing Industry 4.0 on the Construction Site: Challenges and Opportunities
Detecting Safety Helmet Wearing on Construction Sites With Bounding-Box Regression and Deep Transfer Learning
Detecting safety helmet wearing in surveillance videos is an essential task for safety management, compliance with regulations, and reducing the death rate from construction industry accidents. … [Read more...] about Detecting Safety Helmet Wearing on Construction Sites With Bounding-Box Regression and Deep Transfer Learning
IoT-Based Detecting, Locating and Alarming of Unauthorized Intrusion on Construction Sites
Monitoring of unauthorized intrusion on construction sites is crucial to reducing safety accidents. The existing methods have shortages such as detection error, locating error, alarming delay and … [Read more...] about IoT-Based Detecting, Locating and Alarming of Unauthorized Intrusion on Construction Sites
Ohio DOT, Nexar Launch Work Zone Safety Pilot Project
DriveOhio, an initiative of the Ohio Department of Transportation, is partnering with Nexar to test its CityStream roadway monitoring technology to improve highway work zone safety. This pilot project … [Read more...] about Ohio DOT, Nexar Launch Work Zone Safety Pilot Project
DriveOhio Pilots Nexar’s Citystream Technology to Detect Construction Zones in Real Time
DriveOhio, an initiative of the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), partners with Nexar to pilot the company’s monitoring technology to improve road safety around work zones. Nexar’s CityStream … [Read more...] about DriveOhio Pilots Nexar’s Citystream Technology to Detect Construction Zones in Real Time