Development Of an Improved Version of Internet of Things Based Curing System to Enable Efficient Cure Automation and Cure Monitoring

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. 12