Android App for Pothole & Accident Tracking

The Problem

• Indian roads are bumpy

• Intended : Speed Breakers

  • Poorly painted/marked speed-breakers cause accidents : Speed breakers in India kill more people than accident do in UK, Australia

• Unintended : Potholes

  • Potholes damage and slow down vehicles. Accidents too.

  • Road Accidents are common but response is delayed. Depends upon eye-witnesses or victims.

  • Accident prevention & alert measures exist for modern cars using sensors. Can’t be applied to existing vehicles without significant costs.

The Solution

We present an Android app that uses the MapMyIndia API, a phone’s accelerometer and gyroscope reading and a Machine Learning model to:

• Non-intrusively detect road accidents and alert emergency response services automatically.

• Intelligently track and display road conditions by identifying roads with potholes and suboptimal conditions.

• Alert drivers about upcoming speed breaker based on historic data gathered from other drivers

• Suggest routes based not just on traffic and distance, but also on road quality.

• Create a call to action by alerting municipalities to fix potholes.

• Provide a framework for individual contractors to bid on re-construction tasks based on crowd-sourced pothole data.

Who needs this

• Ola/Uber - Route suggestions

• Municipalities - Pothole tracking

• Individual Contractors - Contracts to fix roads

• Drivers (Janta) - Route suggestions, Speed breaker and Pothole warnings

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