Potholes Identification by Building an Smart System using AI

One of the major problems in developing countries is the maintenance of roads. Well maintained roads contribute a major portion to the country's economy. India is the vast country in the world that does not have proper maintenance of the road, over 95 % of the people use road transportation. Due to this peak usage of road transports, there are many possibilities of potholes on roads which lead to accidents. Potholes are an unavoidable obstacle that every motorist in India faces mainly during the rains, To solve this problem, various techniques have been implemented ranging from manual reporting to authorities to the use of vibrationbased sensors. But all these techniques have some drawbacks such as the high setup cost, risk while detection. Hence, we have come up with a work that could help people most conveniently. The main idea is to detect and notify the potholes possibly without human intervention. To achieve our goal we are using AI-enabled cameras and object detection API that help in detecting the potholes.