TRACTS-Net: An Intelligent Road Damage Detection System
DEVELOPED PRODUCT ARCHITECHTURE
APPLICABILITY
USEFULNESS
- To secure the way toward discovering potholes and inform the maintenance team rapidly.
- To reduce the false alarm in receiving the potholes information and pinpoint it exact location.
- To help the authorities (e.g. JKR) to monitor and repair the damaged road visualized on map and develop clean route for transportation.
- Well fit to develop SMART City towards INDUSTRY 4.0.
NOVELTY
- An intelligent road damage detection system
- A novel Communication Networking Technique is introduced named “Crowd Associated enabled Team-Forming Network”
COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL
SYSTEM COMPONENTS
- Microcontroller: ESP32 (32-bit LX6 microprocessor(s))
- Sensors: Ultrasonic Sensor 3-pcs
- GPS Module
Figure 1: System Architecture Diagram
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- International Grant: UIC191515 [RM 46,000], Indonesia
- FRGS: RDU190165 [RM 60,400], KPT Grant
- Flagship Grant: RDU192202 [RM 84,000], UMP
INVENTOR : DR. MD ARAFATUR RAHMAN�FACULTY : XXXXXX
University: XXXXX�EMAIL :
Coventry University
(LoI: 31-01-2020 )
PT Fusi Global Teknologi
(MoA: 10-2-020 )
IBM CoE
(Dr Rahman is the Fellow of IBM CoE)
Figure 3: Potholes detected visualize in Google Maps: Experiment conducted for an arbitrary period of time
Figure 4: Potholes detected as significantly differ the distance among the sensors
Figure 5:
System Accuracy
Figure 7:
Number of False Negatives (NFN)
Figure 6:
Number of False Positives (NFP)
- Government Agencies
- Public transportation
- Reduce the cost in repairing damaged cars
- Reduce road maintenance Cost
- Global fleet market: (8billion USD – 11billion)
- Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR)
- City Council
- Municipality
PRODUCT COST =
RM 150.00
TRL 7
PUBLICATIONS
- Crowd Associated Network: Exploiting over a smart garbage management system, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2017. (WoS Q1, IF = 11.05)
- IoT for Energy Efficient Green Highway Lighting Systems: Challenges and Issues, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), 2020. (WoS Q1 IF= 5.27).
- A Scalable Hybrid MAC Strategy for Traffic-Differentiated IoT-enabled Intra-Vehicular Networks, Computer Communications (Elsevier), 2020. (WoS Q2 IF= 2.76).
Figure 2: Product Workflow
AWARDS
- Best of The Best, Creation, Innovation, Technology & Research Exposition, UMP, 2020
- Gold Medal, Creation, Innovation, Technology & Research Exposition, UMP, 2020
TM = Team Member
AV = Agent Vehicle
Th = Threshold
EEPROM = Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM
Accuracy goes almost
100% while exploiting Crowd Associated TFN
False Positive goes almost 0% while exploiting Crowd Associated TFN
False Negative goes almost 0% while exploiting Crowd Associated TFN
- Damaged roads are one of the barriers of smart
transportation system and thus considered as an
obstacle to develop Smart City.
- Moreover, due to road damage, several accidents
occur every year and causes numerous injuries as well as lives.
- In order to abate the casualties and develop a sustainable road maintenance system, this product enables users to report damage roads to the authorities automatically.