Detection and Identification of Cracks on Roadways

The road accidents are increasing day by day and this is because of improper maintenance of roads which leads to crack on roads hence the proper maintenance should be provided and cracks should be detected to avoid such bad situations. But due to daily busy life people ignore it even though the cracks are seen, hence the solution is provided here. For reducing the same, the crack detection systems were designed using various techniques. This paper introduces the detection of cracks on roads using ultrasonic and PIR sensor. This system mainly consists of PIR sensor, ultrasonic transmitter and receiver, GPs module and GSM modem, IR sensor. The IR sensor helps to detect the cracks and the PIR sensor is used to detect the presence of human on roads. The ultrasonic sensors help for measuring the distance and the exact location of crack is obtained using GPS module. The communication is done through GSM technique. After detecting the crack the message is send to nearest road authority with location of crack. This system is simple in operation and advantageous over both day and night crack detection. There are different techniques to detect cracks on Rail roads but not much on roadways. This technique of crack detection has less costing and give more accurate results.