Cooperative Sensing and Analysis for a Smart Pothole Detection

The need for monitoring the quality of roads is undeniable. There are many different approaches for road quality controls. Among them, the one making use of smartphones has recently become very popular. Nevertheless, building a system that saves energy for smartphones and adapts to real conditions remains a big challenge. In this article, we introduce a lightweight architecture to sense and analyze potholes based on data collected with smartphones. In this model, we improve some algorithms for real-time road-anomaly detection using smartphones. The efficiency of these new algorithms has been verified by experiments with both cars and scooters.