An intelligent system to detect, avoid and maintain potholes: A graph theoretic approach

In this paper, we propose a centralized system which detects potholes on roads and assists the driver to avoid them. The system consists of 3 components namely sensors for detection, an inter-vehicle communication protocol to warn other vehicles about the new potholes which are detected, a central server which maintains a database of all the potholes. The system also consists of a GPS navigation system which will route the vehicle through an efficient path based on certain paramaters such as length of the route, intensity of potholes in the route, vehicle load and type, size limits of the road etc. In addition to this, the central server is configured to assign priority to the potholes and report high priority potholes to any local council such as a municipality so that they are repaired immediately.