Flowity AB

Flowity Road AI - Revolutionizing Road Maintenance with AI

Automate Your Road Maintenance with AI

Flowity Road AI offers automated identification of road damage, analysing recorded video sequences from cameras like GoPros, smartphones, or vehicle-mounted cameras to automatically detect cracks, potholes, wear, and other road damage. All detected damage within the camera's view is continuously collected, positioned with GPS coordinates, and categorized by damage type. This material is then processed by specialized video processing algorithms to create a report for critical decisions in maintenance planning.

With Flowity Road Analysis, you will be able to:

·       Analyse recorded footage to detect and classify road damage6.

·       Require no costly or complicated equipment for data collection7.

·       Enable "crowdsourcing" of data collection via citizens8.

·       Achieve fast and efficient collection of road status, saving time and costs on analysis and decision-making9.

·       Detect and map many categories of road damage10.

·       Maintain the privacy of pedestrians and drivers11.

·       Collect defects on road signs, signs, road width, and curbstones12.

·       Create a digital base that can be visualized in your GIS system13.

Data driven decision

Our technology provides you with facts and data to help your organization dispose of your maintenance budget effectively15. By quickly gathering a comprehensive picture of your roads' condition, you also can follow trends to support the coming year's maintenance budget.

GDPR & Integrity

Since personal privacy is an important factor to consider in this type of data collection, Flowity is designed to automatically anonymize personal data during analysis. All vehicle objects and pedestrians are automatically filtered out of the recorded material so that no object can be traced in the collected data.

Technical Product Description

Flowity Road AI is a machine learning-based service optimized for detecting and analysing road defects. The system utilizes Microsoft Azure and is designed to identify seven types of defects, including longitudinal and transverse cracks, severe frost cracks, edge breaks, potholes, and wear damage with stone chips. A unique feature of Flowity's system is its ability to accurately calculate the area of each defect. This functionality enables the creation of decision support for maintenance plans, calculation of material needs, and accurate cost estimation for maintenance work.

For uploading video material, Flowity Road AI provides a web interface that streamlines the management and transfer of information. The interface allows users to choose between two main algorithms based on road type, with segment intervals set at 2.5 meters for bicycle paths and 4 meters for roads. Once processing is complete, the system allows downloading of results, which include data files in CSV or ESRI shapefile format. Linked to the data file of all road defects is an image library that provides segmented video frames showing detected defects. Data files are complete with GPS coordinates for each analyzed segment and detailed measurements of the defects. Flowity Road AI comes with a standard output in road segments of 10m with the total area of defects per class in each segment. Additionally, Flowity Road AI also provides the estimated road width in each segment.

Flowity Road AI is unique in its ability to deliver repeatable results with very high accuracy in calculating the area of defects32. Flowity can also help you accurately inventory your road and traffic signs, classify, and place them for maintenance work and asset management. Furthermore, Flowity can accurately position each individual defect, enabling continuous tracking of defect development and more advanced post-processing analysis.

Key Features: 35

·       Advanced Detection: Finds most types of pavement defects

·       Azure-driven: Reliability and power from Microsoft Azure.

·       Accurate Area Calculation: For material and cost estimation.

·       User-friendly Interface: Easy video upload and process configurations.

·       Adaptive Algorithms: Adapted for different road type.

·       Results in your format: CSV or ESRI shapefiles with segmented image library

·       GPS Mapping: Detailed coordinates for all analysed defects

Additional Services

Flowity offers a range of services through our partner network in the areas of AI and statistical analysis, road maintenance and planning, and road asset management. We also have a large partner network of domain experts in road maintenance and road asset management with over 25 years of expertise. Together, we aim to offer a comprehensive solution for mapping, analysis, and decision support for road maintenance issues.