Internet of Things and Big Data: Opportunities for Malaysia’s Construction Industry

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  • Megat Zuhairy Megat Tajuddin

Abstract

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4.0) is categorized by a different technologies that are new and advanced and fuses physical, digital as well as the biological worlds, thus, impacting all disciplines, economies and industries. At the epicenter of IR4.0 is the ability of machines to learn and create algorithms that can identify patterns in large, evolving Big Data sets, and drawing conclusions from past experiences historical data. The Internet of Things (IoT) establishes networks of smart interconnected devices and services capable of sensing to requests and acting on them. With these capabilities in the future, more machines could autonomously adapt to circumstances, as their environments change improving industries’ efficiency and sustainability. This paper focuses on the prospects to be offered by IoT and Big Data in the construction industry of Malaysia.

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2019-12-10

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