International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) Volume: 04 Issue: 04 | Apr -2017
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Identification of Road Distress with Notification System Poonam Joshi1, Gouravi Tandel2, Pranali Sawant3, Shubham Jain4, Mandar Ghadi5, ,Darshan Vira6 Asst. Professor, Dept. of Information Technology, Atharva College of Engineering, Maharashtra, India Student, Dept. of Information Technology, Atharva College of Engineering, Maharashtra, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------attention paid on maintenance of roads or lack of labour. The Abstract— Today a large number of accidents occur due to 1
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the bad conditions of roads. Potholes and humps are the major problem which leads to accidents. Potholes and humps occur due to wear and tear of roads, resulting in poor road conditions. Sometimes, such potholes or humps may lead to any major accident. We through this paper, have proposed a system that will focus on this major issue of bad road conditions. We have implemented a system that will be used to identify nearby pothole or hump. Using this system, the potholes and humps can be located and the user will be informed if a pothole or hump is approaching the user’s way and also the reports of the same can be generated for the maintenance of roads and concerned authorities will take the appropriate measures to repair it. The system uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver to locate the current position of the vehicle in which the device is installed. The ultrasonic sensor will first identify the pothole or hump and then capture their depth or height respectively. The server database will store this data and a website will provide alert in the form of a notification whenever the vehicle will come across any pothole or hump. Keywords—GPS, Ultrasonic application, GSM.
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1. INTRODUCTION Although India is doing exceptionally well in various fields but there are still certain areas where the country is lagging behind. India's road network is gigantic, but one of the striking underlying drawback is the condition of the roads. [5] Since roads indirectly contribute to the economic growth of the country it is extremely essential that the roads are well laid out and strong. India is home to several bad roads be it the metropolitans, the cities or the villages. This problem is being addressed since the last 30 years. According to the road accident report, in 2014, around 4,726 lives were lost in crashes due to humps and 6,672 due to potholes and speed breakers. According to the research, in India the highest number of road accidents has occurred in Tamil Nadu; followed by Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala. The reason for such accidents is the uneven potholes and humps. This may be due to lack of
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following figure shows the graph of road accidents occurred in the respective states.
Fig -1: Accident Statistics of different states in India.
2. HISTORY As we see in the Fig.1 the accidents have increased tenfold due to bad conditions of the road. Detection of pothole is an important topic of research and various researchers have been working on different pothole detection techniques. [2][3] Few of the researches have been highlighted below to comprehend various studied systems. Moazzam et al. have proposed a model which makes use of low cost kinetic sensors and it gives the direct depth measurements which reduces the computing cost. [2] This model is used for analyzing 3D distress images. This sensor consists of two cameras – RGB camera and IR camera wherein they capture RGB images and depth images. A MATLAB environment is used to analyze these images to determine the actual depth of potholes by extracting various characteristics of image and the approximate volume of pothole is calculated using trapezoidal rule on area-depth curves through pavement image analysis. [2] Mednis et al. has proposed a model which makes use of smartphone along with accelerometer to detect the potholes. The smartphone consists of built-in accelerometer which is used to sense the movement and vibrations and detect potholes. Various algorithms are used to measure the difference between the amplitude value like Z-thresh and
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