A critical analysis of the application of augmented reality (AR) for monitoring and documentation of construction site progress in the Irish AEC industry.

Sarnot, L. (2021) A critical analysis of the application of augmented reality (AR) for monitoring and documentation of construction site progress in the Irish AEC industry, Capstone Project from the MSc in aBIM

Visualisation of semantic architectural information within a game engine environment

Because of the importance of graphics and information within the domain of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), an appropriate combination of visualisation technology and information management technology is of utter importance in the development of appropriately supporting design and construction applications. We therefore started an investigation of two of the newest developments in these domains, namely game engine technology and semantic web technology. This paper documents part of this research, containing a review and comparison of the most prominent game engines and documenting our architectural semantic web. A short test-case illustrates how both can be combined to enhance information visualisation for architectural design and construction

Analysis of Fuel Cells Utilizing Mixed Reality and IoT Achievements

Recent advances in the development of smart glasses enable new interaction patterns in an industrial context. In the field of Mixed Reality, in which the real world and virtual objects fuse, new developments allow for advanced procedures of condition monitoring. Hereby, the smart glasses serve as a mobile display and inspection station. In this work, we focus on the applicability of Mixed Reality to monitor data of the spatially resolved current density distribution of a fuel cell. To be more specific, we implemented an IoT approach based on the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport protocol (MQTT) to enable the aforementioned monitoring. The realized solution, in turn, provides a live monitoring as well as an overview feature

A taxonomy of tasks in dam cracks surveillance for augmented reality application

Augmented reality is an advanced computational visualization technology that alters how users in the real world can perceive the virtual information. The use of this technology for EAC/FM is being widely investigated. In the scope of dam safety, the constant analysis of concrete behavior is mandatory, searching for clues of pathologies such as cracks. Cracks are relatively common in concrete structures, nevertheless they need to be surveilled due to the risks they offer. The surveillance of cracks involves exhaustive tasks, and for dams, it consists in the execution of a set of complex tasks that demands access to accumulated data and information. Augmented reality can contribute with the visualization process of this information, diminishing the mental workload demand. This paper defines a hierarchical taxonomy of the tasks that are needed in this domain, using Berliner´s taxonomy to classify the tasks, enhancing the understanding of the points where the augmented reality can be used with better results