Quality Based Road Ranking System Using Accelerometer and GPS of Sensors of Smartphones

Abstract

One of the most vital aspects of our lives is transportation. Mainly, everyone relies upon road transportation to meet their fundamental daily needs and respond to emergencies. The minimum requirement for a good vehicle is the road surface, also known as road quality. However, most roads presently have rough and uneven surfaces, such as pits and bumps. This is a crucial problem for transportation in some underdeveloped countries. We discussed a potentially simple, inexpensive methodology to fix this problem utilizing the sensors of the very commonly used smartphone by everyone in the community. We can do this with the help of GPS and the accelerometer of smartphones. With the help of the shake threshold of the smartphone accelerometer, we can determine the road condition and acquire longitude and latitude details from the GPS sensor to find the location. The readings obtained from the smartphone can be collected through the dedicated app and used to measure the quality of the selected road. The selected three paths will be re-ranked based on these measurements.