DriveEdgeAI: An Embedded Platform for Real-Time Road Anomaly Detection Using YOLO11 for ADAS Applications

The increasing demand for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) significantly demands a real-time and robust perception to recognize road-side obstacles in varying different weather settings. This paper presents DriveEdgeAI, a lightweight YOLO11 based embedded deep learning framework for efficient road anomaly detection with the emphasis on potholes, speed bumps and relevant traffic sign detection. We have prepared a custom dataset consisting of 17,061 annotated images to train and test the model under different lighting conditions, weather conditions, and roads configurations. The proposed system also managed to demonstrate good convergence and generalization with a precision@50 of 95.8%, recall@50 of 89.7%, mAP@50 of 95.4%, surpassing previous YOLO versions. The stability and robustness of the model at different thresholds were also substantiated by Precision-Recall and F1-Confidence analyses. DriveEdgeAI was also deployed on a number of edge devices, such as Jetson Nano, Raspberry Pi 5, Intel Movidius VPU and Hailo-8L NPU respectively reaching 9.5 FPS/W and 28.5 FPS for the Raspberry Pi 5 + Hailo-8L version. From these results, one can conclude that DriveEdgeAI is an energy-efficient and scalable solution for real-world ADAS applications.