The city of Seattle has a crew out working to fix potholes through people that report potholes. Currently, the process through which a person would report a pothole is very long. I plan on streamlining the process and making it more convenient for people.
http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/potholes/
There is a much broader map being used but this application is not very user friendly. It is difficult to use and takes quite a lot of time and effort to complete the information necessary.
http://www.potholelocator.com/
(Significant source)Boston has a much more elegant system set in that depicts the map of fixed potholes and ones that have yet to be fixed. It depicts the half of the project which I aim to mimic on the computer fairly well.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/specials/013009_pothole/
This particular Android app mimics the accessibility I wish my project to have. I aim to have people be able to push a button or go hands free with the sensors so they can report potholes.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shake&hl=en
The city of Seattle has a very well designed computer half of the display aspect. In order to add a new pothole, all that is required is the address where the pothole is located. This is much simpler and generally makes people want to use the system because it doesn't take such a long time to say where a pothole is located.
http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cdot/dataset/potholetracker.html
The United Kingdom has its own version of a pothole mapper. This particular version is plotted on google maps and, therefore, is appealing to the eyes. However, the big drawback with this particular version is that you need an account to add a pothole to the map.
http://www.potholes.co.uk/potholes
This pothole finder uses google maps to plot the potholes. It also displays it on a global scale, which is a bit more then was necessary. It does show the different potholes in list form which is very convenient because you can find out the address closest to the pothole.
http://www.potholescout.com/
(Significant source)These scholars from MIT developed a system which can be mounted under a car but instead of using visual forms of detection(lasers and ultrasound) they used the vibrations of the car to detect the potholes.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1378605
(Significant source)Some gentlemen at Microsoft produced a paper on the topic of road monitoring and traffic monitoring. They use a smartphone to collect all the data, specifically using the accelerometer, microphone, and GPS sensor in order to determine a pothole or traffic.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1460444
(Significant source)This paper goes into detail about data collected using an android device in order to collect data about road surface conditions. This is relevant because I need to know how sensitive the sensors have to be in order for them to be sufficiently accurate.
http://dee.srv1.eu/refs/files/4/105.pdf
(Significant source)This patent accurately shows the kind of sensor array I want to build. The main difference being the kind of sensor. The sensors would still send data to a database which would plot them on a map.
http://www.google.com/patents/US6484089
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