Montgomery County Department of Transportaon to Trial i-Probe
Technology
The Division of Highway Services of the Montgomery County Department of Transportaon in Maryland
begins trial to evaluate the eecveness and usability of i-Probe technology.
August 19, 2024 – GAITHERSBURG, Maryland
The Division of Highway Services of the Montgomery County Department of Transportaon (MCDOT),
charged with maintaining over 5,300 miles of road and highway infrastructure within the county,
concluded arrangements on August 7 to trial i-Probe’s Road Condion Monitoring Big Data Analycs
Service (RoCoMo-BDAS) and Smart Road Monitoring Connected Vehicle (SRMCV) service to determine
eecveness and instrumentality for the county.
Trials for both services commenced on August 19 and are expected to conclude before the end of the
year. Trial implementaon will be supported by O’Connell & Lawrence, Inc., a program management
consultant for MCDOT currently tasked with monitoring pavement condions on the county’s
maintained roads.
For the RoCoMo-BDAS service, MCDOT will have full access to crowdsourced data scans of road
condions in a designated square area including Germantown, Gaithersburg, Rockville, and Bethesda
as well as several months of historical data for this region from which to draw comparave insights on
pavement deterioraon.
For the SRMCV service, the trial will focus on a designated 50-mile test area encompassing secons of
Barnesville Road, Randolph Road, and Shady Grove Road among others. i-Probe’s system will rapidly
collect and mechanically process road roughness data to idenfy types of pavement defects and
locaon, then verify these by video imaging.
The objecve of the trial is to evaluate the usability and quality of the data collected by i-Probe services
and determine how well the technology can be integrated into MCDOT’s operaons to improve
eciency. The trial will also serve as a research and development feedback mechanism for i-Probe’s
future enhancements.
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i-Probe Inc. (IPI) is one of the world’s rst providers specializing in collecng and analyzing Big Data
obtained from vehicle sensors to provide infrastructure condion informaon services. IPI services
include pothole/crack detecon, pavement roughness condion monitoring, and deterioraon alerts,
which come with map overlay and are generated from connuous monitoring. IPI in partnership with
Honda are carrying out several vehicle-based road asset assessment pilot projects in the U.S.
CONTACT:
i-Probe Inc.
Paul Hamoy
p.hamoy@i-probe-inc.com