Small effort to build pune as a smart city: Smart real-time road condition detection and efficient management system

Abstract

Detecting the road condition is a very important task nowadays. There is an alarming increase in the number of vehicles so a number of accidents also have increased in turn. This paper shows a unique way to detect the potholes using an Arduino-based sensing module and android smartphone. It also does an important task of finding the appropriate ways of handling the potholes which are detected like notifying the appropriate time of repairing the pothole, which potholes must be repaired first, etc. This paper also proposes an additional functionality of detecting the skidding of vehicles and location of inappropriate speed breakers. This all mined data will be pinned on to the Google maps and accordingly, the users can change their driving patterns so they can reach the destination safely. The data obtained can be helpful to the governments for the improvement of the road conditions.