RoADS: A Road Pavement Monitoring System for Anomaly Detection Using Smart Phones

Fatjon Seraj, Berend Jan van der Zwaag, Arta Dilo, Tamara Luarasi, Paul J. M. Havinga

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Abstract

Monitoring the road pavement is a challenging task. Authorities spend time and finances to monitor the state and quality of the road pavement. This paper investigate road surface monitoring with smartphones equipped with GPS and inertial sensors: accelerometer and gyroscope. In this study we describe the conducted experiments with data from the time domain, frequency domain and wavelet transformation, and a method to reduce the effects of speed, slopes and drifts from sensor signals. A new audiovisual data labeling technique is proposed. Our system named RoADS, implements wavelet decomposition analysis for signal processing of inertial sensor signals and Support Vector Machine (SVM) for anomaly detection and classification. Using these methods we are able to build a real time multi class road anomaly detector. We obtained a consistent accuracy of ≈90% on detecting severe anomalies regardless of vehicle type and road location. Local road authorities and communities can benefit from this system to evaluate the state of their road network pavement in real time.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBig Data Analytics in the Social and Ubiquitous Context
Subtitle of host publication5th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, MSM 2014, 5th International Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments, MUSE 2014, and First International Workshop on Machine Learning for Urban Sensor Data, SenseML 2014, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages128-146
Number of pages19
Edition1
ISBN (Print)9783319290089
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Jan 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • monitoring systems
  • anomaly detection
  • smartphones

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