A Manufacturer-Independent Digital Process Platform for Future Construction Sites

Today’s construction sites are still at the beginning of a continuous digital transformation process. Among others, this is due to complex site environments and an existing lack of inter-operability between various site components such as the involved machinery. Consequently, this lack leads to direct implications on the efficiency, quality as well as the production time of construction projects. In order to contribute to filling this gap, we develop a manufacturer-independent digital process platform for construction sites of the future. This paper presents first results after the successful software implementation of the digital process platform. Along the real-world use-case ‘road construction’, we highlight the need for the utilization of Big Data technologies and present the implemented communication infrastructure as well as the user interface of our digital process platform. Finally, we show a proof of concept for the platform along the platform use-case ‘static geo-fencing for construction machines’ and conduct an initial evaluation of that exemplary use-case.