Abstract:
In traditional concrete curing methods supervision is required and work productivity is not at its
best, due to which the difficulties in providing continuous supervision and control of the curing
environment leads to considerable variation in the curing results experienced by different types
of concrete . Furthermore, a lot of water is lost due to the inefficient management during curing.
To enhance concrete curing practice, technologies have been used which eliminate human
involvement enabling more control of the environmental conditions affecting curing, and the
potential for Internet of things (IoT) technologies had been tried to be explored. However due to
limitations of equipment and not following prescribed limits, still the performance is not up to its
fullest. The probability of Thermal Cracking still exists and still can be the water consumption
minimized. Moreover, there is a great need to enable the ongoing quality monitoring of concrete
so as to enable a detailed comparison and develop a practically easy to use system in the field.
In this research study, an IoT-based concrete curing control system based on modern sensor
technologies enabling monitoring and controlling the moisture content of hardening of concrete
to the updated and appropriate levels was developed and examined. Based on the on-site
experiments, the performance of this IoT-based method was compared with the performance of
previous IoT-based methods. The results indicated that the system invented outperforms the
previous IoT-based methods in terms of concrete curing quality, water usage and time spent on
supervision.
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