The cloud computing stream analysis system for road artefacts detection

Abstract

The paper presents the cloud computing system designed for monitoring the state of roads by processing data packages covering such data as the car’s acceleration and position acquired by mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) mounted in cars and implemented on IBM BlueMix platform. Such data are being directly sent to the cloud system, where they are being saved and processed online. The system is capable of performing the authors’ pothole detection algorithm which is characterized by high detection rate, but on continuously arriving data. Finally, the system is presenting its results in the form of website and data packages sent back to mobile devices.