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Sylvester Chikoti
Sylvester Chikoti
Sylvester Chikoti
• Specific objectives
• Establish design requirements
• Design and implement pothole sensing unit
• Design and implement control unit
• Configure and implement GPS, GSM modules and server
• Build the prototype
Literature review
• According to TANROADS policy of 2009, a pothole on the road must
be removed immediately after it has been identified and reported.
• Currently the mode of identifying pothole depends on two major
methods:
• Surveys done by TANRODAS maintenance team
• Reports from road user
• Both of these methods are good but not efficient in saying where
exactly is pothole located.
Literature review cont…
• Some approaches in other countries like India have been done but not
popular
• Moazzam proposed a model for analyzing 3d pavement distress
images.
• Located magomeni
Data collection
• More pictures of potholes in different angles
Data collection
• Ultrasonic sensor capabilities HC-SR04
• Four pins device consisting of:
• VCC pin
• Ground pin
• Trigger pin
• Echo pin
• Provides 2cm to 400cm non contact distance measurement.
• Operating current: 15mA
• Measure angle: 15 degree
Data collection
• GSM module
• Built with dual band GSM/GPRS based sim900A.
• It has internal TCP/IP stack to enable to connect to the internet via
GPRS.
PARAMETERS VALUE
Voltage and current 5V, 1.5mA
Bands 900/1800 MHz
Dimensions 24*24*3 mm
Data collection cont..
• Controller
• In controller section, atmega 329 micro controller is going to be used
as it has the following properties:
Parameter Value
Operating voltage 5V to 12V
CPU speed 16 MHz
Analog pins input/output 6/0
Digital pins input/output 14/6
EEPROM 1 Kb
SRAM 2 Kb
Flash 32 Kb
Data collection cont..
• GPS
• IS-GPS-200F is chosen for this design as it can
• Get coordinates quick so that they can be sent in
• In time
Data analysis
• Pothole dimension :
• It depends, some have 5cm deep and some go deeper to 40cm.
• Depends on which layer of the road is affected to result given
pothole.