Automated Maintenance Management Program Part 2: The Integration of Databases andImage Processing Results for the Quantitative Assessment of the Exterior Condition of Metal Buildings

摘要

The establishment of an automated system for assessing the exterior condition ofstructures can provide facility managers with an important tool for making decisions. The integration of different forms of knowledge into a coherent system provides the fundamental basis for an expert system. The system can reduce the time required to analyze and interpret information, and provides a historical record of the rate of failure for building structures. The report discusses the feasibility of establishing an automated maintenance management program for making maintenance decisions using computer image processing to obtain quantitative results database technologies and the design and structure of the database for condition assessment are discussed. Image acquisition, processing, storage, and retrieval of images of a water tower are presented as a case study.