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Android Application-Control and Monitoring
in Construction Project
Aswin Kumar S#1, Gopalakrishnan S*2
M.E Construction Engineering and Management, Professor and Head,
Department of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering,
Erode Builder Educational Trust’s Group of Erode Builder Educational Trust’s Group of
Institutions, Institutions,
Erode, Tamilnadu, India Erode, Tamilnadu, India
1 2
[email protected] [email protected]ABSTRACT— sites. The site supervisors currently furnishes only
The aim of the project is to provide a generalized their weekly or monthly expenditure details and
and integrated solution module to monitor the progress of works, because of this the construction
construction tasks carried out at different venues in the company has to wait, to know the expenditures and
construction industry. This system consists of sequence
the progress of work made by the various
of activities which are scheduled as per the company’s
calendar. It enables automatic rescheduling construction site.
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methodology in which the site engineers at different This process is very much time
construction site can upload the images and the data consuming and it involves a lot of manual work to
like quantity of work executed, number of labours, be carried out. To update the day to day activities,
expenditures, over heads etc of the completed tasks every site supervisor requires a computer with
which are carried out each and every day. Those internet connection at their sites. They also require
uploaded data and images can be viewed by the project a camera to capture the construction status. To
manager their mobile module and the copy of those provide all these facilities at the remote site the
data are also sent to the default e-mail id of the project
construction company has to spend huge sum of
manager which act like a backup. Both project
manager and site engineer can login into this module money, time and space. So to surmount this
through their authenticated user name and password. problem new framework was proposed.process of
Whenever the site engineer upload their data and works monitoring in any construction company is
image of the project and SMS alert will be received by a tedious job. The construction company performs
project manager at that instance. This module Total Quality Management which is management
possesses a way to export the data and images into MS philosophy focuses on continually work processes.
Excel format from the mobile application. Particularly, Six Sigma became a useful method as
a performance indicator and process improver for
I. INTRODUCTION
the companies from different industry. Increasing
In the recent years the Android Technology numbers of companies start to integrate the full
with web services has brought many drastic implications of Six Sigma. Six Sigma is a quality
changes in the mobile application development improvement technique based on statistics, was
fields. Keeping this in mind, an android based used firstly by Motorola in the 1980s. It helps to
mobile application to access the remote database decrease costs, increase quality by improving
has been developed. This application provides a process and reduce the production time.
generalized solution to monitor the various works
that are carried out by a construction company at A mobile phone with advanced computing
different geological points. By using a Web capabilities is a smart phone. Smart phones
Service the data are stored in the remote database. includes the functionalities of personal digital
Using data in the remote database various reports assists, portable media players, digital cameras,
are generated and projected as a MIS GPS navigation and high definition touch
[Management Information System] web screens and web browsers, high speed data
application. Thus the construction can use the MIS access. Android is open source and Google
to monitor the works carried out at various sites. releases the code under the Apache license.
The various works at various geological Android has a large community of developers
points. Currently, for these works the writing applications written in the Java
construction company will be having the site programming language making Android to
supervisors, who will be taking care of the various become the world’s widely used smart phone
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platform. Android has 75% of worldwide market project development. There is a facility of
share. Android was built to create mobile graphical charts giving the status of the project to
applications that take full advantage of all a enable managers to intervene where required.
handset offer. It provides with all tools for the Project managers add users to project team. It is
developer. As it is an open source it is easy to very simple to use this application. If anyone
get the tools required for application wants to use this application, he/she has to
development. Application can have access to the register using email-id and mobile number.
entire phone’s core application if required such
as email, calendar etc. B. Project Planning
The information technologies are Project manager assigns various tasks to the
team members and these tasks need to be
growing faster and software system became scheduled considering schedule of them.
larger and more complex, there is a need of Task assigning: Interface that allows
effective software development management, user to add or edit tasks, change
which is a key factor to lead quality software schedules or assignments.
systems. “Project management is the process of
the application of knowledge, skill, tools, and Resource allocator: Customize work
techniques to project activities to meet project hours for the users. New tasks are
scheduled automatically according the
requirements”. The internet, a new member of availability by the system.
IT, offers a medium to manage projects
throughout the world from anywhere at any time. C. Project Tracking
Same is the case of using smart phones, project It is necessary to track the progress of
management application used in android mobile. project for its successful completion.
It includes modules like assign projects, add Project progress: Manager or team
employees, assign tasks, send alerts via members indicate progressas percentage.
email/SMS, testing and updates like upload work
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The system automatically calculates the
and many more. projected end dates of the tasks and
project.
II. PROJECT TRACKING Graphical charts: Identify the available
and overloaded resources across project.
This application is useful in software
project management for managers, developers D. Collaboration
and tester in all phases of software development. Message board: Using this facility user
This application will help for creating project conducts secure online discussions with
schedules as well as budgets that optimize team members and client.
limited resource usage. It will also improve
Attachments: There will be a secure and
communication between project stake holders. shared storage of all documents on the
As the application is embedded in mobile, it can server side.
be accessed anywhere at any time. Agile
Meetings and event scheduler: Meetings
software development methodology is used in
and events are arranged using calendar by
this application. It provides iterative software
the system. Invites are also sent through
development methodology.
email/SMS to team members.
E. Email alerts
Emails have become popular medium for
exchanging information among people. So this
system uses emails for giving alert to user about
important events like task assignments, task
updates, task start and end dates and so on. These
alerts keep user updates wherever documents are
uploaded or newer versions are available. Users can
enable/ disable the notifications as per their needs.
It also alerts project manager when tasks are
delayed.
F. customizations
There are number of customization
. Figure 1 Project Tracking options for user’s feasibility. Users can customize
A. Control Desk their dash boards, menus, date styles and much
There is a user friendly interface which gives more.
list of projects, tasks, events that are assigned to
the user. It also gives the role of the user in the
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III. MODULAR DESIGN
1. Authenticated user login
The site supervisor located at different
sites of the construction company, login with
their user name and password. Every time when
a user login through the mobile application the
IMEI number, the latitude and the longitude of
the work site and the mobile number are
captured. By capturing these details we provide
an authenticated way through which the site
supervisor alone can use this mobile application.
Thus the expenditure details and progress of
work details can be sent from the site
supervisor’s mobile device.
2. Location based works entry
The works performed in the various
sires of the construction company are monitored
using the corresponding supervisor. The
expenditure made on that day and the works
performed are updated in this module.
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IV. METHODOLOGY
This system consists of sequence of
activities which are scheduled as per the Figure 2 Data Flowchart
company’s calendar. It enables automatic
rescheduling methodology in which the site
engineers at different construction site can upload V. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
the images and the data like quantity of work By preparing the following sheet, can
executed, number of labours, expenditures, over
easily control and monitoring in construction
heads etc of the completed tasks which are carried
out each and every day. Those uploaded data and industry in android application.
images can be viewed by the project manager their
mobile module and the copy of those data are also
sent to the default e-mail id of the project manager
which act like a backup. Both project manager
and site engineer can login into this module
through their authenticated user name and
password. Whenever the site engineer upload their
data and image of the project and SMS alert will
be received by project manager at that instance.
This module possesses a way to export the data
and images into MS Excel format from the mobile
application.
This flowchart shows the way in
which the data are followed from Site Engineer
module to the Project Manager module using
RFID
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VI.CONCLUSION
In the first phase of this project feasibility
studies like Literatures journals belongs to the
authors of both national and international level has
been collected and studied. Through which the
initial feasibility for the project has been
determined. There are several firms approached
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and their opinions are kept for the purpose of
assisting module creation. A checklist has been
created in order to cover up the parameters which
are related to civil, electrical, steel, centering, and
Figure 12 Checklist Page_10
plumbing, carpentry, tiles, fall ceiling and
painting are included in it. From the related
journals study it clearly furnishes that this type of
module enables the construction site to save their
expenditure up to the minimum 6.5%of their
budget.
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