Road Pothole Detection Mechanism using Mobile Sensors

Abstract

Roads play an important role in developing the infrastructure of a city and they also play an important role in our day-to-day life, as more people travel from one place to another by road. Road surface quality needs to be monitored properly, as bad roads with a lot of potholes and cracks in it lead to some fatal accidents. Due to the advancement in technology, compact smart devices (smartphones, tablets) with high computation power and having the ability to sense their environment with the help of different sensors have provided the ideas to solve some real-life problems effectively. We propose a method for detecting the potholes on the road surface by using the smartphone sensors. A flutter based android application is developed to collect the accelerometer and gyroscope readings from smartphone sensors. By analyzing and detecting patterns from the accelerometer and gyroscope readings from the smartphone sensors we find the exact location of the potholes on the road surface and store that data in database. Later that can be provided to relevant authorities for maintenance of roads.