A Mobile-based Application for Performing Assembly on the Construction Sites in a Decentralized Manner

Abstract

The culture of morning assembly in the construction sites in Japan is in practice for a long period of time. The traditional morning assembly of the construction site is the gathering of all the construction workers in one place before starting the work of that day and listening to the information delivered by the site manager. The site manager explains the work, safety declaration, disaster’s information, emergency exit, etc. using the bulletin board. Morning assemblies in construction sites are crowded, unorganized, unproductive, and pose a significant challenge for the management team. The problem of forgetting the assembly contents, not paying attention to the manager, unable to listen to the contents of the assembly are the major problems of traditional morning assembly. Besides these, the morning assemblies are known to be hotspots of Coronavirus infection as well. So, with the aim of making the morning assembly safer, organized and to aid boost of workers’ productivity, we propose an application that can be used to organize the morning assembly in an organized and decentralized manner. This application can be used by the construction workers to check the morning assembly information on their own smart devices. The application includes all the information about the assembly and the user can access the application inside the site whenever they want to recall the assembly information. The application is developed in such a way that fake access to the site’s information is avoided by using the QR code scan tool linked with the GPS data. The application was tested at multiple sites, and we receive various comments from the construction sites which prove that it will be possible to improve safety and productivity compared to the existing morning assembly.