An intelligent system for monitoring tower cranes on construction sites

ISARC 2013 - 30th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and Mining, Held in Conjunction with the 23rd World Mining Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1239-1246

  Nadar, M A ^a   Awakian, C A ^a   Khoury, H K ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Construction safety; Tower crane accidents; Tower crane monitoring; WSN

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; DATA VISUALIZATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY; ROBOTICS; TOWER CRANES; TOWERS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CONSTRUCTION ENVIRONMENT; CONSTRUCTION SAFETY; CONSTRUCTION SITES; CRANE ACCIDENTS; DYNAMIC CONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION DELIVERY; PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS; SAFETY PRECAUTIONS;

MONITORING;

EID: 84893519766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.22260/isarc2013/0139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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