IoT - An opportunity for autonomous BIM reconstruction?

Abstract

While the concepts and technologies of Building Information Modeling (BIM) are on their way to become an industry standard, there is an increasing demand for the digitalization of the existing building stock. Based on our previous work on this subject we present a framework for autonomous BIM reconstruction using an IoT-based approach. We show that it is possible to integrated depth sensing technologies with common devices that move regularly throughout a building. By autonomously conducting several scans of the same region it is possible to enhance the quality of the reconstructed model while reducing the human workload. The use of (semi-)autonomous devices however comes with a trade-off and in this study could not achieve results equal to human-made scans.