Paper Info
Title
CRATER: A Crowd Sensing Application to Estimate Road Conditions.
Abstract
We developed a crowd sensing application to estimate road conditions (CRATER). CRATER is a smartphone application that opportunistically measures acceleration when it finds itself on the road in order to map and measure the locations of potholes and speedbumps. It does not require input from users, but can report detected potholes and speedbumps to a cloud-hosted application engine, which stores partially processed data received from smartphones of participating users and jointly processes it to obtain a better estimate of road conditions. The information is published in map form on the web. This map allows both citizens and municipal authorities to localize potholes, road segments in need of repair, and imbalances in infrastructure maintenance efforts across cities. Road tests demonstrate that CRATER succeeds in correctly detecting roughly 90% of potholes and 95% of speedbumps, while generating false alarms only about 10% and 5% of the time, respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2607719
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Application of wireless sensor networks,smartphone applications,pattern recognition,mobile systems,crowd sensing
Impact crater,Computer security,Computer science,Accelerometer,Crowdsensing,Computer network,Real-time computing,Global Positioning System,Wireless sensor network,Maintenance engineering
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4
2169-3536
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Faria Kalim142.21
Jaehoon Jeong238734.96
Muhammad U. Ilyas36810.15