New road safety app
India, Japan researchers are working on a smartphone-based app to monitor roads.This is to reduce the accidents due to damaged roads in both countries.
The project aims at monitoring road conditions and ultimately enhancing road safety.
Detect potholes
The key to road surface condition monitoring is to detect road surface anomalies,including potholes, experts said.
Any citizen can record the road damage with a smartphone and upload it directly to the cloud servers.The app can be used for continuous monitoring with high temporal road damage assessment.
