Road quality management system using mobile sensors

One of the major problems in developing countries is maintenance of roads. Well maintained roads contribute a major portion to the country's economy. Identification of road distress such as potholes and bumps, helps drivers to avoid accidents, vehicle damages and it also helps authorities to maintain roads. In this paper, we discuss the previous pothole detection methods that has been developed and proposes a cost-effective solution to identify the potholes and bumps on roads. In our system, mobile phone sensors are used to identify the potholes and bumps. The proposed system captures the geographical location of the potholes and bumps using GPS sensor in the Mobile phone. These sensed-data are send to the cloud storage for further processing. This serves as a valuable source of information for the government authorities and vehicle drivers. An android and web application can be used to display the road condition in the map.