MUMBAI, India, Aug. 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441013014 A) filed by K. Ramakrishnan College Of Engineering, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, on Feb. 23, 2024, for 'a street light system for pothole detection.'
Inventor(s) include Mr. Nagaraj P; Gokul Bakkiyarasu; Gokula Krishnan Selvaraj; Praveen Raj Ayyappan; and Sudharson Krishna Sridharan.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 29, under issue no. 35/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses a street light system (10) for pothole detection to reduce the accidents. The street light system (10) comprises a lamppost (1) configured to install the system for detecting the one or more potholes. The camera (2) is detachably coupled with the lamppost for capturing the images of the road surfaces. The processor board (6) is operatively coupled with the camera and lamppost for identifying the potholes in the specified locations by means of predefined instruction. The communication module (8) is configured to intimate the one or more results to the one or more authenticated locations/persons by means of internet connectivity. The trigger alarm (7) is configured to alert the drivers digitally for reducing the speed or preventing the accidents. The Processor Board (6) that processes input image from the Camera fixed in the lamp post in order to locate and identify potholes on the road surface by using a pre-trained MobileNetV2 model. The present invention (10) will reduce the accidents due to the pothole in an effective manner by communicating the problems to the officials."
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