AR-Facilitated Safety Inspection and Fall Hazard Detection on Construction Sites
This addresses safety and efficiency issues for construction workers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing AR and ML technologies.
The paper tackles the problem of safety inspections on high-rise construction sites by using head-mounted augmented reality and machine learning to detect gaps in perimeter safety screens and automate reporting, with early progress described as a work-in-progress.
Together with industry experts, we are exploring the potential of head-mounted augmented reality to facilitate safety inspections on high-rise construction sites. A particular concern in the industry is inspecting perimeter safety screens on higher levels of construction sites, intended to prevent falls of people and objects. We aim to support workers performing this inspection task by tracking which parts of the safety screens have been inspected. We use machine learning to automatically detect gaps in the perimeter screens that require closer inspection and remediation and to automate reporting. This work-in-progress paper describes the problem, our early progress, concerns around worker privacy, and the possibilities to mitigate these.