Smart Construction - 5G applications for the digitization of construction processes

Many players come together on a construction site and different construction phases have to be coordinated. The increasing complexity poses increasing challenges. The digitization of planning data and construction processes forestalls the problems and offers many decisive advantages. 5G has the potential to network players on construction sites and to optimize construction site processes. With the help of secure, broadband data connections and locating options in the small-cell network expansion, spatially accurate locating and decimeter-precise localization of recyclable materials or employees are possible. In addition, augmented reality applications support the construction process.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) is in charge of the project and is contributing its know-how in the areas of 5G, localization and industrial transformation.

The project partner is the 5G real laboratory in Braunschweig. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.