i-Probe Presents Technology Development Study at Internaonal
Road Federaon Conference
i-Probe, in partnership with Transtek Internaonal Group, presents a joint development study on the
applicaon of Connected Vehicles and related technologies to pavement and bridge maintenance.
December 13, 2024 – ORLANDO, Florida
i-Probe President and Chief Execuve Ocer Dr. Daisuke Oshima presented the summary of an
ongoing study on Connected Vehicles at the Internaonal Road Federaon (IRF) Global R2T Conference
from December 10-13 in Orlando, FL.
i-Probe has been carrying out joint research acvies on Connected Vehicles (i.e., vehicles that can
communicate bidireconally with other systems separate from the vehicle) with Transtek Internaonal
Group of Florida since 2021. The study premises that the onboard array of sensors in most Connected
Vehicles, such as GPS, accelerometers, cameras, etc. can be ulized as an eecve tool for data
collecon and analysis in the eld of pavement and bridge maintenance. Furthermore, when data is
crowdsourced from a eet of Connected Vehicles, such an arrangement can overcome greater
operaonal challenges and oer unparalleled spaal and temporal resoluon at the network level.
Specically, the presentaon covered pavement monitoring applicaons employing connected vehicles
and eets, featuring highly consistent and accurate sample results from Florida roadways. The
eecveness of Connected Vehicles in bridge monitoring studies, especially on a network level, was
also illustrated with comparave examples conducted on the Florida coastline from 2023-24. Finally,
the discussion extended to potenal future advancements in Connected Vehicle technology,
emphasizing the integraon of AI-driven predicve analycs to proacvely address pavement and
bridge deterioraon, thereby enhancing maintenance strategies and infrastructure resilience.
On the signicance of the study, Dr. Oshima said, “Proper infrastructure management requires accurate
sensing of its condion. Tradional sensing technologies somemes come with high costs and can
expose workers to hazardous situaons. However, the emergence of new technologies, such as mobile
sensing, cloud-based sensing and AI, bring us new possibilies for infrastructure condion monitoring.
By leveraging these technologies, i-Probe aims to contribute to safer and more ecient infrastructure
management.” Professor Neca Catbas, co-founder of Transtek Internaonal, stated that “Connected
vehicles enable a new era of real-me monitoring for roadways, bridges, and other infrastructure. We’re
excited to collaborate with i-Probe Inc. to advance this innovave approach to smarter, safer
infrastructure management.”
The IRF Global R2T Conference, aimed at global leaders in roads and mobility, oers a forum for
innovators, decision-makers, and industry professionals to share the latest advancements and best
pracces in transport and infrastructure, and network for valuable collaboraon and partnerships. The
annual event is of vital importance for professionals and organizaons to remain at the forefront of
transport infrastructure innovaon and shape the future of the industry.
i-Probe and Transtek Internaonal will connue research and development on the applicaons of
Connected Vehicles and related technologies to pavement and bridge maintenance to address the
tradional challenges of infrastructure management and to seek technology-based soluons for the
common industry problems related to me eciency, resources, and budget constraints.
Looking ahead, i-Probe and Transtek intend to explore the opportunies ulizing technologies in
Connected Vehicles, cloud-based data collecon, Arcial Intelligence and Deep Learning. The study
team may share results of its joint research in related publicaons and future conferences, such as the
IRF Global R2T.
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i-Probe Inc. (IPI) is one of the world’s rst providers specializing in collecng and analyzing Big Data
obtained from vehicle sensors to provide infrastructure condion informaon services. IPI services
include pothole/crack detecon, pavement roughness condion monitoring, and deterioraon alerts,
which come with map overlay and are generated from connuous monitoring. IPI in partnership with
Honda are carrying out vehicle-based road asset assessment projects in the U.S.
Transtek Internaonal Group LLC (TIG) is a technology spin-o company with extensive experience in
modeling, simulaon, sensing, imaging, eld tesng and assessment of structural systems for
maintenance, rehabilitaon, preservaon and management decision-making for civil, aerospace and
energy structures. TIG’s parcular focus is non-contact (image-based) local and global monitoring of
structures for rapid, cost-ecient and eecve assessment. The mission of TIG is to conduct advanced
research, to develop technology products and to provide services that meet and exceed client needs.
TIG’s team is composed of engineers, academics and businesspeople. It maintains strategic partnerships
in the US and Japan to complement its capabilies.
CONTACT:
i-Probe Inc.
Paul Hamoy
p.hamoy@i-probe-inc.com
Transtek Internaonal Group LLC
Dr. John Coer
john@transtek.us
