Automatic Detection of Potholes

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VI, Issue V, May 2019 | ISSN 2321–2705

Automatic Detection of Potholes

Akshatha P¹, Chaitra Paul², Lakshmi Suresh³, Richard Lincoln Paulraj⁴

^1,2,3Dept. of Electronics and Communication, The Oxford College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
⁴Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Communication, The Oxford College of Engineering, Bangalore, India

Abstract— The “pothole deaths” have stirred a debate on the inefficiency and the corruption in the municipal and road owning authorities. Vehicle population has tremendously increased over the last two decades. Nowadays traffic congestion and road accidents are increasing mainly due to the proliferation of vehicles. Owing to the increased death that are caused to the improper road maintenance creating solution that reduces such deaths and also to increase the quality of road maintenance is a must. Roads make up to the majority of means of transportation used as of today in India, regular maintenance of these roads is crucial as they are filled with unexpected hurdles such as potholes and humps. Potholes are basically areas of road surface that have ruptured, worn away, or eventually formed a hole.
Automatic detection of potholes is a human safety based project. This system provides cost effective solution for detection of potholes on the road by using ultrasonic sensors and indicates the road maintenance authority. The microcontroller fetches the location of the pothole using GPS and the GPS locations are sent with the help of GSM. The GSM at the vehicle part takes that location and sends the location to the concerned person and that person can see pothole on the map of that area.

Keywords—Automatic Detection, GPS, GSM, Ultrasonic, Pothole

I. INTRODUCTION

There is a huge risk of accidents on roads with big holes, bulges, improper roads and unexpected or sudden appearance of speed breakers. The major reason behind the potholes is use of low quality material for the construction of the roads; other reasons include climatic conditions etc. Thus, automatic detection of potholes helps us to detect these holes, and improper roads anywhere in the world through the use of GPS.
Potholes lead to unbalance while driving which can eventually lead to accident. According to the report of Global Road Safety, released by the World Health Organization (WHO), India reports for more than 200,000 deaths because of road accidents. These accidents can be due to over speeding, drunk and driving, jumping traffic signals and also due to humps, speed-breakers and potholes.

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