Crowd-Sourced Pothole Detection

A smartphone app that passively detects road potholes using accelerometer data and maps them for municipal reporting.

Derek Olson

Roosevelt High School

Mobile AppCivic TechData ScienceInfrastructure

About this project

This app runs in the background on a smartphone and uses the accelerometer and GPS to detect and geolocate road anomalies consistent with potholes. Beta testing with 30 users over 4 weeks mapped 214 unique pothole events.

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2026 Regional Science & Innovation Fair

Riverside Convention Center