Intelligent Road Condition Assessment and Pothole Detection

Abstract: Pavement surface monitoring is crucial in order to provide a secure and seamless road infrastructure. Road surface anomalies like potholes, cracks, speed bumps, manmade joints on the road surface that hamper the driving comfort must be accurately located in order to effectively monitor the state of roadways. Lately, sensing via smartphones has acquired more popularity since inbuilt sensors in smartphones are easily obtainable. Smartphone based sensing is starting to become more and more common. The area of research in locating surface irregularities in the pavement is quite massive. If device or smartphone have the capacity to spot abnormalities in the pavement surface. The comparatively low-frequency of today’s mobile device sensors and under sampled data collected from the sensors lead to unsatisfactory accuracy in detection. The most recent techniques for employing cellular devices to detect imperfections on the roadways are contrasted and investigated in this study. Further directions for pavement anomaly detection utilizing smartphones are also highlighted