Developing mobile 2D barcode/RFID-based maintenance management system

•We integrate 2D Barcode and RFID technologies to improve maintenance management.•We develop a mobile 2D Barcode/RFID system for maintenance management in the lab.•The system was applied for lab instruments maintenance management in Taiwan.

Effective maintenance management can be extremely difficult owing to various types of equipment and instruments in a construction lab. These equipment and instruments are required to provide a high level of precision and accuracy in their tests. Usually, maintenance staff will make hard copy records of inspections and maintenance results in a construction lab. Consequently, there are often difficulties in accessing information and data re-entry problems during the maintenance process. By using 2D barcode and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies, this study presents a novel system called Mobile 2D Barcode/RFID-based Maintenance Management (M-BRMM) system to improve lab equipment and instrument maintenance management and provides a maintenance information sharing platform. Integrating promising information technologies such as smart phones and RFID-enabled PDAs, the M-BRMM is then applied in a construction lab in Taiwan to verify our proposed methodology and demonstrates improvements to the maintenance process in a construction lab.

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