Construction of Mobile App Technology

Mobile apps increase productivity on construction sites which is essential in modern day construction industry for its critical success. Mobile app technology allows engineers and contractors an instant design changes either in AR (Augmented reality) or a plan on their tablet, this is how the industry is fast changing with the help of innovation and technology. Engineers, foremen and architect can also sketch, make changes, punch list, give comments, make suggestion, make cost estimation and propose improvements that can be shared with anyone in the office or to a client. Construction mobile apps allow contractors and engineers to record and view activities going on a jobsite, they can get a forecast of the weather and calculate labor productivity. Project managers have access to project directories and can attach any changes done in a drawings and punch list item to other colleagues in the office.

Calculation is one of the key aspects in construction mobile application which allow BOM (Bill of Material) calculation and measures volume, area, Pythagoras, stack function and continuous measurement. Construction mobile devices have transform from survey to onsite inspection, which has become a productive tool within the construction industry. These construction mobile apps have help many construction industries to save money and has help effective collaboration between clients and suppliers, site workers and customers to work more productively and effectively. Engineers or architect can upload or download plans in a digital form as they work or send it by email to other colleagues or project manager. Work routine can be schedule by using the construction mobile app, in that case the site manager can easily know how many workers are onsite or who Is absent, this help the companies to save money and cost of labor.

Mobile apps are being also a best solution for tracking labor hours and equipment in the field, whiles it has all these advantages it can also be integrated to other platform which documents can be shared through SharePoint, drop box and Google drive. It is a great tool which can help reduce project delivery inefficiencies. According to Sage Software majority of the construction mobile app are used to accessing customer and job information (48%), followed by drawings, schedules, photos, and documents which is (47%), daily field reports is approximately (38%), job cost and project reports (36%), time capture and approval (30%).

Documentation and measuring play a major role in construction industry, it helps to streamline processes and update vital information on jobsite. Architect and engineers document information in a real-time without passing through any hassle or leaving the construction site, furthermore the foreman or project manager can review, make changers and make sure all necessary information’s and updates are amend before the workers leave the construction site. This help to eliminate any impeding hazard on the jobsite and improve information sharing, correction which greatly advances productivity and efficiency.

In the construction industry measured drawings are fundamental, it is the formalized product of documentation, which help the architect and the engineers to have a blue print and information they can work with. These documented drawings help the engineer or architect to observe, analyze, measure and interpret easily. Documentation can help ease the evaluation of measurement records made by workers, and this can promote greater efficiency when engineers and architect are assigning to do a different consignment. Construction mobile app are categorized based on variety of functions and some of the most relevant functionality are categorized into Room plan creation, Issue & task management, Annotation, data collection for quotation & invoicing, calculation etc.

Today´s differentiation of our laser-meter tools is mainly based only on interior or exterior applications. Even considering the big variety of functions already coming with our current tools we´re often lacking very trade specific functionalities. With the current market trend of Bluetooth connectivity to external apps & software measurements and documentation has help increase the productivity of construction industry. It is vividly clear that documentation help to prepare the worker to successfully complete it work on the onsite and maintain progress on site. This also helps to decrease the effort of producing measurements and calculations supporting the final contract records upon finishing a project. Project engineers usually are the one who are responsible to ensure that documentation and accurate measurements are done and recoded during construction project work.

Distance measurement is very important part of our everyday lives around the globe. Distance measurement is used in almost all disciples works of life such as engineering, scientific research and infrastructure, with this it shows how important laser distance meter can help us to progress and work efficiently in our works of life. A Laser Distance Meter uses a laser beam to sends a pulse of light to a target and measures the distance of the targeted object and the time it takes the pulse to be reflected. Laser distance meter is a convenient way to add, substrate and calculate areas, volumes and trigonometry of a distance on like the old fashion conventional way of measurement with tape. Due to the high speed of light it transmits, it is accurate than Ultrasonic laser meter.

The basic principle behind a Laser distance meter (LDM) is that it emits a pulse of light to a targeted object. A laser beam is reflected by a beam splitter which are then generate a sinusoidal signal with constant amplitude and phase by two prisms on a photodiode. The avalanche photodiode detects the reference of the signal beam which then act as phase measurement of signal coming from the detector, this then convert the measured time to distance.