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Proposer

Alistair Mcconnell

Title

Road/Infrastructure Quality Monitoring Using IMU Crowdsourced Data Gathering

Goal

Create an application to record and transmit the IMU data from Android smartphones

Description

There are approximately 247,800 miles of road in the UK [1] which can vary in quality from brand new to close to destruction. There are also approximately 72,000 bridges in the UK and recent studies put around 4.4% of those as substandard [2]. It is close to impossible to accurately monitor all of this infrastructure and the cost of embedding sensors can be prohibitive, it has been suggested that crowdsourced IMU data could be used to passively monitor infrastructure as it is traversed by cars. This project would involve creating an application to use a phone IMU and GPS to monitor vehicle journeys and create a database and visualisation that could show the road quality.

Resources

Background

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/road-lengths-in-great-britain-2021/road-lengths-in-great-britain-2021 [2] https://www.racfoundation.org/media-centre/spanning-the-gap-road-bridge-maintenance-in-britain#:~:text=Number%20of%20substandard%20crossings%20on%20the%20rise&text=Others%20will%20be%20under%20programmes,on%20the%20local%20road%20network. [3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-022-00025-4

Url

Difficulty Level

High

Ethical Approval

Full

Number Of Students

2

Supervisor

Alistair Mcconnell

Keywords

android app, crowdsourcing data, data visualisation

Degrees

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems
Master of Engineering in Software Engineering
Master of Science in Data Science
Bachelor of Science in Computing Science