Intelligent wireless web services for construction - A review of the enabling technologies

The vision of intelligent wireless web services, as discussed in this paper centres on the need to provide mobile construction workers highly specific data and services oil an as-needed basis, with flexibility of use for the user. With the emergence of high speed wireless networks, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G, and parallel advancements in Internet based technologies such as the Semantic Web, Web Services, Agent based technologies and Context Awareness, the realisation of the vision of the intelligent wireless web has become a possibility. The paper presents a state-of-the-art review of the enabling technologies and discusses how, by exploiting the convergence and synergy between different technologies, it has become possible to deliver intelligent wireless web support to mobile construction workers. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.