Our Projects

On our campus and the surrounding roads, the degree of road damaging will be different every year. Traditionally, the department of transportation uses a huge detection car to detect road damage. Our client Dr. Ho finds that it was not only cumbersome, but also only applicable to motor vehicles, and it is expensive. Hence, the goal of our team is to finish the same function based on bikes. However, compared to the huge detection car, our devices have more advantages: it costs less, applies to any road, and is more portable.

The basic components consist of a camera, an accelerometer, the Global Positioning System (GPS), the Android mobile application development, and data analysis. The accelerometers will save three-dimensional data, the camera will show real-time videos of the roads as a reference, and the GPS will record the location information of the bumps. As for the App, we determine to design one for the Android system with a humanized user interface.

In terms of the data sharing, we use Wi-Fi and wireless mesh network (WMN) to share the information with other users. Finally, our test routes mainly focus on bike lanes on campus, which helps us to amend our design scheme based on the results of each experiment.