Predictive Infrastructure
Monitoring and evaluating infrastructure with high quality data from our Mercedes-Benz customer fleet.
Road authorities and road maintenance departments today mostly rely on manual approaches to monitor and maintain the road infrastructure and assets. This results in high internal and external costs and immense efforts to keep the information up-to-date. However, the data quickly becomes outdated and ad-hoc changes are hard to monitor.
Our Mercedes-Benz Predictive Infrastructure Product supports road authorities in monitoring and evaluating the infrastructure with high quality data from our Mercedes-Benz customer fleet.
The car sensors detect changes in real-time and send alerts and hazard warnings to the Mercedes-Benz backend.
With the power of the fleet we understand the development of the infrastructure over the time and with artificial intelligence we predict the next damage in your road network.
This data product is available as a data layer within the Mercedes-Benz Data Dashboard. Visit the product page for more information.
Transparency: Displaying data insights by providing detailed information about the status of the road infrastructure.
Historical and predictive analytics: Understand how the road infrastructure changes over time. Compare historical developments with future predictions based on artificial intelligence.
Data validity: Highly accurate data due to swarm intelligence and the power of the fleet ensure high information quality.
Various dashboard functions: Many functions such as historical analysis, uploading of 3rd party data, use various filter options for precise analytics.
Ad-hoc operations & strategic planning: Use the dashboard for your operational day-to-day business or strategic planning for the next winter season by analyzing historical data.
Vehicles continuously scan and evaluate the road infrastructure and its environment to detect damages. With our advanced vehicle sensors, we detect minimal damages and real-time changes. The data are analyzed in our backend and leverage our fleet’s swarm intelligence to track and predict changes over time.
Identification of smallest surface damages and alerts on potholes, which pose an urgent risk. Tracking and prediction of development over time.
Measurement of the longitudinal road profile according to the international index IRI and AUN for pavement performance modelling.
Creation of a traffic sign catalog with a highly accurate mapping and ad-hoc alerts if traffic signs get damaged or stolen.
Evaluation on lane marking quality with respect to different scenarios (day/night, rain/dry) and development over time.
Detection of infrastructure status (e.g. traffic sign or surface damage) via Mercedes-Benz customer fleet through advanced sensors such as camera or ultra-sonic sensors. Transmission of data over-the-air to the Mercedes-Benz Vehicle backend.
The Mercedes-Benz Predictive Infrastructure Algorithm evaluates infrastructure characteristics of multiple crossings leveraging swarm intelligence of the fleet. A multitude of crossings gives greater confidence and can track changes over time.
Results are accurately mapped on the dashboard with confidence level and data insights (e.g. type of traffic sign, quality level of lane marking, and damage type of street). The dashboard contains a multitude of functions such as filtering, own data integration and historical analysis.
Use the dashboard for strategic planning and operational decision making, get ad-hoc warning on hazard events. Work with the dashboard in the field or to plan your budget allocations.
Here you can find a collection of questions we’ve been asked by our customers.
Near real-time, hazard warnings are displayed with a latency below 1 second. The data is transmitted from the vehicle to our backend and from the backend to the dashboard.
The data comes from the Mercedes-Benz Car & Van customer fleet based on a multitude of sensors such as cameras, ultrasonic sensors as well as height level sensors.
We use our established Car-to-X technology. Our vehicles send the data via cellular radio / mobile communications.
Yes, external data sources can be displayed on the dashboard.
We only use data from customers who provided their explicit consent. The data is anonymized and processed according to GDPR.
We offer the data also via a Rest-API to integrate the product in existing customer solutions.
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