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From the Paper to the Tablet: On the Design of an AR-Based Tool for the Inspection of Pre-Fab Buildings. Preliminary Results of the SIRAE Project

Marcos FernándezCristina PortalésMontse PozaJesús GimenoSergio Casas

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Augmented RealityProcess (engineering)Computer scienceCommunicationmedia_common.quotation_subject0211 other engineering and technologies020207 software engineering02 engineering and technologylcsh:Chemical technologyBiochemistryAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsAnalytical Chemistry021105 building & construction0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringSystems engineeringlcsh:TP1-1185Augmented realityQuality (business)pre-fab buildingsinspectionElectrical and Electronic EngineeringInstrumentationenergy efficiencymedia_common

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Energy-efficient Buildings (EeB) are demanded in today’s constructions, fulfilling the requirements for green cities. Pre-fab buildings, which are modularly fully-built in factories, are a good example of this. Although this kind of building is quite new, the in situ inspection is documented using traditional tools, mainly based on paper annotations. Thus, the inspection process is not taking advantage of new technologies. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of the SIRAE project that aims to provide an Augmented Reality (AR) tool that can seamlessly aid in the regular processes of pre-fab building inspections to detect and eliminate the possible existing quality and energy efficiency deviations. In this regards, we show a description of the current inspection process and how an interactive tool can be designed and adapted to it. Our first results show the design and implementation of our tool, which is highly interactive and involves AR visualizations and 3D data-gathering, allowing the inspectors to quickly manage it without altering the way the inspection process is done. First trials on a real environment show that the tool is promising for massive inspection processes.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2018-04-19Sensors
https://doi.org/10.3390/s18041262