I-Probe

About i-Probe

"Providing road management agencies with continuous, more economical, and rapid road condition monitoring with Connected Vehicles."

i-Probe is an innovative data collection system that enables road management agencies to carry out pavement condition inspections more economically and rapidly, and with greater data consistency.

i-Probe uses Connected Vehicles transmitting data near real-time to capture road roughness, identify pavement distresses, and map these with faster turnaround than traditional methods.

i-Probe also leverages Big Data analytics to achieve continuous pavement condition monitoring of very wide areas using fleets of Connected Vehicles.

Background

According to a recent Infrastructure Report Card by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), one out of every five miles of highway pavement is in poor condition. The backlog of existing highway maintenace is estimated to be $420 billion or 50% of U.S. highway & bridge capital needs.

Current repairs for road infrastructure are often based on costly, time-consuming, and human-intensive surveys. Due to heavy traffic, the manual process of conducting these surveys are often lengthy and difficult which may cause frequent delays. In addition, surveys of road conditions are taken only a few times per year. (Interstate highways: Once/year | Regular Roads: Once every 4-5 years) . Because of the time gap, road operators are unable to get a true assessment of their road infrastructure during the current time period as their existing information is outdated. As a result, road operators must sometimes rely on inaccurate & subjective driver reports for present roadway conditions.

i-Probe was established to address these issues and empower road agencies to achieve more proactive road maintenance.

Our Mission

Our mission is to enable road management agencies to achieve:

Continuous asset monitoring

Data-driven decision making

Proactive maintenance

Safer infrastructure

Our History

i-Probe was established in the United States in 2019 through a business alliance with an automotive OEM to contribute to better and safer roadways in the US leveraging connected vehicle data. Our team includes specialists in civil engineering, road infrastructure, and data analytics, and we have continued to advance our technology in collaboration with OEM partners. We have conducted pilot projects with state DOTs and counties. We are also engaged in joint research with the University of Central Florida and have presented our work at conferences such as TRB. In addition, we participate in industry consortia, including AMOTIA (Association for Management and Operations of Transportation Infrastructure Assets) and we have a partnership with NEXCO-West USA, a company specializing in infrastructure inspection.