PlotHoles
The Problem
- Indian roads are bumpy
- Intended : Speed Breakers
Poorly painted/marked speed-breakers cause accidents
- Intended : Speed Breakers
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.
- Require apparatus such as sensors & IoT
- Can’t be applied to existing vehicles without significant costs.
The Solution
An Android app that uses
- MapMyIndia API,
- a phone’s accelerometer and gyroscope readings
- and an ML model...
to perform the following
- Non-intrusively detect road accidents
- Alert emergency response services automatically.
Alert family and emergency contacts automatically.
Intelligently track and display *road conditions *
Identify roads with potholes and suboptimal conditions.
Creates a Call to Action by alerting municipalities.
Inform individual contractors to bid on re-construction tasks.
Alert drivers about upcoming speed breakers based on historic data gathered from other drivers
Suggest routes based not just on traffic and distance... but also on road quality.
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
Data


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