Analysis of Bad Roads Using Smart phone

Abstract

Developing nations are faced with a lot of bad roads with potholes of different debt ranges, the maintenance and rehabilitation process by government agencies is an ongoing effort that requires periodic bad road inventory to guarantee safety. Bad roads are either identified by government agency’s survey teams or individual who volunteer to report these conditions to the authorities. Our research provided a simple but effective solution to aid in automatically reporting bad roads using smart-phones through measuring the pavement profile based on the vibration of a moving vehicle. In this article, we will explain how we used some a smart-phone in reading the vibration pattern, GPS location, speed and direction of a vehicle that drives through a pothole, these parameters are periodically streamed to a cloud application. We used standard deviation to measure the level of dispersion around a segmented set of streamed vehicle vibration to identify potholes of different sizes, we also used Artificial Intelligence - supervised learning algorithm (classification) to reduce the false positive error rates due to human behaviors. The final results show a distinct vibration levels between small pot-holes, speed bumps and big pot-holes, these values are displayed on map application to visualize the geographical locations of these pot-holes (Google maps)