A comparative overview of radio frequency-based technologies applicable to locating resources on construction sites

Proceedings, Annual Conference - Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 2825-2835

  Maalek, R ^a   Sadeghpour, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONSTRUCTION SITES; COVERAGE AREA; ERROR PRONES; GPS SIGNALS; LARGE-SCALE PROJECTS; RELIABILITY OF RESULTS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS; WORK ENVIRONMENTS; ZIG-BEE;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PRODUCTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 84855807926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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