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SynapTech: A Real-Time Construction Site Safety Monitoring System Using YOLOv8-Based PPE Detection with Automated Alert and Worker Identification
Dheeraj Sharma1
Dhavan M R2
G Karthik Ram3
Charan H M4
1 2 3 4 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PES College of Engineering, Mandya, Karnataka, India.
Published Online: May-June 2026
Pages: 190-198
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↗ https://www.doi.org/10.59256/ijire.20260703018References
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vol. 11, no. 1, p. 2333209, 2024.
2. M. Ahmad, S. Khan, and R. Umer, "Personal protective equipment detection: a deep learning-based sustainable approach,"
Sustainability, vol. 15, no. 18, p. 13990, 2023.
3. A. J. Alhussein, "Personal protective equipment detection using YOLOv8," Cogent Engineering, vol. 11, no. 1, 2024.
4. F. Zhou and Y. Liu, "A systematic review of computer vision-based PPE compliance in industry practice," Artificial Intelligence
Review, vol. 57, 2024.5. R. Patel and M. Chauhan, "Automated PPE compliance monitoring in industrial construction and mining environments," Automation
in Construction, vol. 167, p. 104273, 2025.
6. P. Gupta et al., "PPE detector: a YOLO-based architecture to detect PPE in real-world imagery," Journal of Imaging, vol. 6, no. 7, p.
68, 2022.
7. H. Kim and J. Park, "Smart construction site safety monitoring using deep learning and IoT integration," IEEE Internet of Things
Journal, 2024.
8. S. Rahman et al., "YOLO-based real-time PPE detection for construction safety," IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 129456–129468, 2024.
9. K. Verma and A. Singh, "Deep learning models for helmet and vest detection in hazardous environments," Automation in Construction,
vol. 148, p. 104862, 2023.
10. D. Santos et al., "Computer vision-based worker tracking and PPE validation," Sensors, vol. 22, no. 18, p. 6789, 2022.
11. R. Agarwal and H. Singh, "Monitoring construction safety violations using deep neural networks," IEEE Transactions on Automation
Science and Engineering, 2021.
12. J. Redmon, S. Divvala, R. Girshick, and A. Farhadi, "You only look once: unified, real-time object detection," in Proc. IEEE CVPR,
pp. 779–788, 2016.
13. J. Redmon and A. Farhadi, "YOLOv3: an incremental improvement," arXiv: 1804.02767, 2018.
14. A. Bochkovskiy, C.-Y. Wang, and H.-Y. M. Liao, "YOLOv4: optimal speed and accuracy of object detection," arXiv: 2004.10934,
2020.
15. G. Jocher et al., "ultralytics/yolov5: v4.0," Zenodo, 2021.
16. C.-Y. Wang, A. Bochkovskiy, and H.-Y. M. Liao, "YOLOv7: trainable bag-of-freebies sets new state-of-the-art for real-time object
detectors," arXiv: 2207.02696, 2022.
17. R. Girshick, J. Donahue, T. Darrell, and J. Malik, "Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation,"
in Proc. IEEE CVPR, pp. 580–587, 2014.
18. R. Girshick, "Fast R-CNN," in Proc. IEEE ICCV, pp. 1440–1448, 2015.
19. [19] S. Ren, K. He, R. Girshick, and J. Sun, "Faster R-CNN: towards real-time object detection with region proposal networks," in
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 28, 2015.
20. W. Liu et al., "SSD: single shot multibox detector," in Proc. ECCV, pp. 21–37, Springer, 2016.
21. Z. Xie, H. Liu, Z. Li, and Y. He, "A CNN-based approach towards real-time hard hat detection," in Proc. IEEE PIC, pp. 430–434,
2018.
22. Z. Wang et al., "Fast personal protective equipment detection for real construction sites using deep learning approaches," Sensors, vol.
21, no. 10, p. 3478, 2021.
23. M. Akbarzadeh, Z. Zhu, and A. Hammad, "Nested network for detecting PPE on large construction sites based on frame segmentation,"
in Proc. Creative Construction e-Conference 2020, pp. 33–38, 2020.
24. Q. Fang et al., "Detecting non-hardhat-use by a deep learning method from far-field surveillance videos," Automation in Construction,
vol. 85, pp. 1–9, 2018.
25. J. Li et al., "Safety helmet wearing detection based on image processing and machine learning," in Proc. IEEE ICACI, pp. 201–205,
2017.
26. Z. Zhu, M. W. Park, and N. Elsafty, "Automated monitoring of hardhats wearing for onsite safety enhancement," in Proc. 11th
Construction Specialty Conference, 2015.
27. A. H. Rubaiyat et al., "Automatic detection of helmet uses for construction safety," in Proc. IEEE/WIC/ACM WIW, pp. 135–142,
2016.
28. L. Cai and J. Qian, "A method for detecting miners based on helmet detection in underground coal mine videos," Mining Science and
Technology (China), vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 553–556, 2011.
29. A. Kelm et al., "Mobile passive RFID portal for automated and rapid control of PPE on construction sites," Automation in Construction,
vol. 36, pp. 38–52, 2013.
30. S. Zhang et al., "Workforce location tracking to model, visualize and analyze workspace requirements in BIM for construction safety
planning," Automation in Construction, vol. 60, pp. 74–86, 2015.
31. S. Barro-Torres, T. M. Fernández-Caramés, H. J. Pérez-Iglesias, and C. J. Escudero, "Real-time personal protective equipment
monitoring system," Computer Communications, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 42–50, 2012.
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