PAVVET Roughness Intensity Monitor
Surface Mobility Applications & Real-time Simulation environments
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
North Dakota State University, Fargo
Client Information
The Upper Great Plains Transportation
Institute (UGPTI) is a research and
education center at North Dakota
State University which is guided, in
part, by an advisory council
composed of representatives of
various organizations industries and
agencies affecting or affected by
transportation.
Client Information
The Center for Surface Mobility Applications &
Real-time Simulation environments
(SMARTSeSM) applies advancements in lowpower sensing, wireless communications, and
mobile computing to demonstrate leaps in
multi-modal and intermodal transportation
system efficiencies, responsiveness, reliability,
sustainability, safety, and security.
SMARTSe Program
Project Background
• Pavement Analysis Via Vehicle
Electronic Telemetry (PAVVET)
– Research project with the goal of producing
an improved index for summarizing
pavement condition
– The road impact factor (RIF) is a multiresolution, statistical model of roughness
produced from sensors on connected
vehicles traveling at any speed.
Project Background
• PAVVET
– Distributed sensors include smart phone
apps that collect and process real-time
location and inertial data with energy
efficient algorithms that have negligible
impact on battery life. A centralized cloudbased system combines the RIF into a timewavelength-intensity-transform (TWIT), which
is a wavelength-unbiased characterization
of roughness from a broad range of vehicle
types and speeds.
PAVVET
Project Background
• PAVVET Current Status
– Mobile application for data collection while
user drives completed at the end of 2012
– Service needed to parse and store data
sent by mobile application
– Web application needed to visualize data
and print reports
• PAVVET Roughness Intensity Monitor (PRIM)
Capstone Project Goals
• Develop data parser and storage
service
– Listens server-side for data import requests
– Parses and inserts data into database
• Develop web application
– Data filter
– Heat map visualization
• Print ability for map
Developer Tools and Requirements
• Visual Studio 2010
– C#
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Mentor Contact Information
Megan S. Bouret
DOTSC IT Manager/Research Assistant
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
North Dakota State University
megan.s.bouret@ndsu.edu
(701) 231-6263