Road condition monitoring and alert application: Using in-vehicle Smartphone as Internet-connected sensor

The proposal describes a road condition monitoring and alert application using the in-vehicle Smartphone as connected sensors, which are connected to an Internet-of-Things platform over the Internet. In addition to providing a generic Internet-of-Things based platform, the proposed solution brings in novel energy-efficient phone-orientation-agnostic accelerometer analytics in phone, reduces the data volume that needs be communicated between phone and the back-end over Internet, brings in multi-user fusion concepts to create authentic road condition maps and addresses privacy concerns for the phone user for sharing the required data.