Itech1100 : Understanding The Digital Assessment Answers

The first step to creating your video and report is to explore both the technology and the industry, to understand the potential impacts.
Write a short description of the technology and the industry , and add both to your ePortfolio page. You may use any relevant sources, including websites, blogs, tweets, journal articles and textbooks. Ensure you reference any sources appropriately.

For your topic, list at least three ways the technology may change or disrupt the industry. Include this list on your ePortfolio page.
If you are having trouble, remember that this is a creative task – it’s ok for your ideas to be 10 or 30 years in the future. The more you can come up with at this stage the better, even if you think your ideas are completely implausible.
Some hints:
• Consider the impact of the technology on the people in the industry; will it make their lives easier or harder?
• Can you draw parallels to other industries where your technology may have had impact?
• Are there other technologies you’re aware of that might, together with your chosen technology, have a stronger combined impact?
• Creative thinking requires a dedicated block of time and the freedom to play around with ideas. Don’t leave it to the last minute!

Choose one technology impact from the previous exercise, and identify at least four factors or constraints that make this impact possible, or which might prevent it occurring.
Frame these within Lawrence Lessig’s regulations – Market, Law, Architecture (Physical/Natural) and Norm(Social/Ethical). Include them in your ePortfolio page.
At least one of the factors or constraints should be ethical in nature. You may choose to identify one factor or constraint for each of Lessig’s categories, or have multiple in one category. For example, it is ok to have three Market constraints and one Norm constraint.

Identify one process within your industry or field that would change as a result of your chosen impact. Some hints to identify processes:

 

Write a description of this process in English , referring to the above events, tasks, decisions, actors and outcomes.
It is acceptable and expected that you make a number of assumptions about the process, but these should be explicitly included in your description. What are you basing your understanding on?
Identify specific components of this process that would change due to your technological idea.
Describe how these components would be affected by the change . It should be clear which events, tasks, decision points, actors, and outcomes are affected, and in which ways. This may include components being removed, replaced, augmented or added.

Part one-research:

The growth of IOT has influenced several sectors including the construction industry. IOT applications enables remote operation, supply replenishment, Construction Tools and Equipment Tracking, Equipment Servicing and Repair, Remote Usage Monitoring, Power and Fuel Savings, Augmented Reality and Building Information Modeling. In the construction business, the total cost of ownership is one of the main factor to consider along with the fuel consumption and life cycle (Riggins & Wamba, 2016). Enhanced technologies can assist the construction industry to monitor such aspects carefully so they will be able to take precise decision in order to maximize the work schedule effectiveness. Nowadays, multiple construction organization adopt the IOT technologies in order to achieve better productivity and avoid causalities in large scale projects (Rifkin, 2014). Technologies such as RFID tags are implemented in the Supplies in order to count the requirement and availability of such supplies. Experts believes, the future of IOT in the construction industry will be defiantly an area to keep an eye on.  

Part two-Brainstorming:

IOT application can provide multiple support in various construction process which will surely make things easier for the constructors and other associates. These applications can enable automation which will be the biggest branch mark in the construction industry. In the current state, the development of IOT applications and the adoption of such technologies offers multiple opportunities which will directly impact the construction industry and stakeholders associated with the industry (Dave et al., 2016). Some of the possibilities are followed:

Supply Replenishment:  Every project requires certain resources which are necessary to construct projects. Generally, constructors collect some of the supplies and wait until the supplies are used and then order or collect new supplies (Oesterreich & Teuteberg, 2016). Supplies can be comprised with a RFID tags to count the supplies and understand the requirement of supplies as well. The projects will have better chances to complete in time and company does not need to buy in significantly more supplies.  

Remote usage monitoring: IOT applications can also be used to monitor the whole work process and prevent worker fatigue and possible accidents (Ashworth & Perera, 2018). Certain construction process along with the hour, taken to complete can be logged automatically. This will surely assist the construction industry to maximize their productivity.

Equipment tracking and construction tools:   It will help reduce the time lost looking for mislaid items as well as the cost of purchasing replacements. GPS data is already being used to monitor vehicle fleet locations.

Part three- Ethics

In construction site, the availability of supply unit is essential or the whole project will stay at put for uncertain amount of time and in worst case, it could leads to project failure. In order to properly monitor such units, In order to adopt this approach, there are certain aspects needs to be focused on.

• All stakeholders must approve these approach in order to make it possible. Their support is essential to monitor and respond to the RFID alerts.
• Constructor executives must adopt such technology widely as it will trigger more production and development of technologies.
• RFID tags manufacturer must consider the supply types of construction industry. For a proper construction, several type of resources are essential. Typical tags cannot be connected with every unit of supply and the measurement process is also differ (Zhong et al., 2017).
• The central system must be accessible from different location. Manufacturer must offer several way to access the central system with proper authentication and functionality.

Part four- BPMN

Events:	collect supply and resupply as required
Activities:	Get supply, Use resources, Check existing supply unit, alert central system and resupply.
Decision points:	Supply available or empty
Actor:	Construction executives
Outcomes:	Notified by RFID tags before few supply units left.