eprintid: 15778 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/01/57/78 datestamp: 2023-11-10 03:30:24 lastmod: 2023-11-10 03:30:24 status_changed: 2023-11-10 02:00:23 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Israr, A. creators_name: Abro, G.E.M. creators_name: Sadiq Ali Khan, M. creators_name: Farhan, M. creators_name: Bin Mohd Zulkifli, S.U.A. title: Internet of Things (IoT)-Enabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for the Inspection of Construction Sites: A Vision and Future Directions ispublished: pub keywords: Antennas; Autonomous vehicles; Motion planning; Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); Vehicle to vehicle communications, Aerial vehicle; Autonomous unmanned vehicles; Communicationtechnology; Construction sites; Emerging trends; Energy transportation; Health measures; High standards; Industrial programs; Review papers, Internet of things note: cited By 32 abstract: Today people are witnessing the rapid evolvement in every area. This is because of the emerging trends in communication technology and autonomous unmanned vehicles. These trends have led us towards the high standards of health, energy, transportation, monitoring, and surveillance of huge domestic and industrial projects. Thus, this review paper presents the integration of the latest trend in communication technology, i.e., Internet of things (IoT) with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This manuscript not only reviews the use of IoT-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles for inspecting the several construction sites but also emphasizes the utilization of such IoT-enabled autonomous aerial vehicles for ensuring the health and safety measures at the site. It discusses the major limitations and shortcomings of state-of-the-art techniques for the same purpose, i.e., optimization issues in path planning, lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision algorithms, coordination in communication using IoT, and scalability of IoT network. Thus, this paper shall help the reader to explore different open research problems in-depth. © 2021 Ambar Israr et al. date: 2021 publisher: Hindawi Limited official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85105719851&doi=10.1155%2f2021%2f9931112&partnerID=40&md5=d3b299e6f75f656fa0c8baaa4901b9b3 id_number: 10.1155/2021/9931112 full_text_status: none publication: Mathematical Problems in Engineering volume: 2021 refereed: TRUE issn: 1024123X citation: Israr, A. and Abro, G.E.M. and Sadiq Ali Khan, M. and Farhan, M. and Bin Mohd Zulkifli, S.U.A. (2021) Internet of Things (IoT)-Enabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for the Inspection of Construction Sites: A Vision and Future Directions. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2021. ISSN 1024123X