ROAD ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Project background:
The client has several databases containing different types of data and lacks an up-to-date inventory and management system mapping the main national roads and their adjacent assets.
Biggest challenges: To configure a mobile data acquisition vehicle with sensors, connect them to navigation equipment and synchronise them with business management system. The project requires highly accurate data, yet navigation system is subject to biases and variability in the data.
Solution:
Developed an AI system that can automatically perform a full analysis of the road and its assets by analyzing data collected on the road.
A specialized vehicle equipped with sensors, video data streams, and navigation data is used to combine these elements for automated analysis, without human intervention.
A mobile device – car – is specially equipped with necessary sensors to collect the data. Systemreceives video streams from different sensors as input, combines them with navigation data and performs automated analysis of the road and adjacent objects, by locating and classifying certain clustered objects in the image. The precise location of each object can be extracted. The solution can perform fully automated data analysis and information extraction using an AI component without requiring manual intervention.
System consists of several modules – System App, Data Collection App, Data Upload App, AI Module or Data Processing Module. The AI module performs full analysis of road and road asset data, carrying out road asset information segmentation, tracking, object classification, precise object location determination, orthophoto and 360-degree view generation.
To achieve this, solution incorporates a set of complex computer vision algorithms, as well as various machine learning solutions and models, all of which are uniquely designed to address this problem. Several custom developed and trained neural network models are used for the solution, utilizing data sets and customized neural network structures.
Key benefits:
- Improved accounting, management, and related business process administration system and data reliability;
- Simplified system management;
- Ensuring data accuracy and information availability.
