New pothole detection solution unveiled
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has developed a semi-autonomous solution for early pothole detection to potentially replace the often time-consuming expensive manual road inspection.
Vehicle RepairShowcasing the Visual Surveying Platform (VSP), CSIR senior research technologist Thegaran Naidoo told delegates at the fifth CSIR conference in Pretoria that the solution was aimed at mitigating the R50-billion-a-year vehicle repair and injury costs resulting from deteriorated roads across South Africa.
Currently piloting within the existing pothole detection workflow of one of the municipalities in Gauteng, the integrated system delivers sensor data collection, visualisation and planning, automatic and manual detection and estimations allowing for a timeous detection and identification of distressed roads and potholes, which can expedite maintenance and repair.
The system comprises a vehicle- mounted mobile sensor equipped with a high-speed camera and a Global Positioning System receiver geotagging and analysing the infrastructure, which is validated by an operator to prevent “false positives” and to enhance the accuracy of the information passed on to municipalities.
Existing inspection programmes are dependent on the manual evaluation of road surfaces, which is a time-intensive task.
Accurate InformationAutomated inspections systems, used as part of a broader inspection programme, can improve road maintenance by providing more in-depth and accurate information on surface properties and road distresses, faster than manual methods.
Article Enquiry
Email Article
Save Article
Feedback
To advertise email advertising@creamermedia.co.za or click here
Announcements
What's On
Subscribe to improve your user experience...
Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):
Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):
All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors
including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.
Already a subscriber?
Forgotten your password?
Receive weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine (print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
➕
Recieve daily email newsletters
➕
Access to full search results
➕
Access archive of magazine back copies
➕
Access to Projects in Progress
➕
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA
R4500 (equivalent of R375 a month)
SUBSCRIBEAll benefits from Option 1
➕
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports on various industrial and mining sectors, in PDF format, including on:
Electricity
➕
Water
➕
Energy Transition
➕
Hydrogen
➕
Roads, Rail and Ports
➕
Coal
➕
Gold
➕
Platinum
➕
Battery Metals
➕
etc.
Receive all benefits from Option 1 or Option 2 delivered to numerous people at your company
➕
Multiple User names and Passwords for simultaneous log-ins
➕
Intranet integration access to all in your organisation















