A fleet-deployable sensor box that turns everyday buses and taxis into a continuous, city-wide road-condition survey — replacing a $26K–$105K survey run with data that updates every day.
Condition surveys run once every one to three years, at CAD $26,000–$105,000 per run, or rely entirely on reactive citizen reporting. The consequences compound: emergency pothole repairs cost 3–5× more than planned maintenance, and UK motorists alone lose an estimated CAD $3 billion a year to suspension and tyre damage.
Needs objective, city-wide severity data to justify infrastructure spend and shift from reactive to preventive repair.
Hosts the hardware on vehicles already driving the network daily — the free-fit offer that gets the sensor onto the road before any council contract exists.
I sized the market, mapped the client ecosystem (municipalities, nav platforms, insurers, OEMs), and specified the full hardware and data pipeline down to individual component costs — so a technical co-founder could start ordering parts instead of debating architecture.
Industrial IMU + dead-reckoning GPS + barometric altimeter + wide-angle camera + 4G LTE, on a Raspberry Pi 4, in an IP65 enclosure. CAD $580 per unit.
High-pass + Kalman filtering separates real road events from vehicle body roll before anything is ever recorded.
AWS IoT Core → PostGIS Postgres, aggregated nightly by OpenStreetMap segment ID to refresh the heatmap.
Pothole classification (MobileNetV2), speed recommendation (XGBoost) — the most commercially differentiated layer — and predictive deterioration modeling.
PavIQ is a complete technical spec — hardware, firmware, data pipeline, AI strategy, and a component-level bill of materials — not yet built. The plan gets from bench prototype to a five-unit fleet pilot and government-facing dashboard in 20 weeks for roughly CAD $6,100–$10,300, with a risk register already covering the failure modes (SD-card wear, GPS loss, mounting noise) that typically kill field hardware.
Bench prototype — integrate every sensor, validate a clean simultaneous JSON log.
Vehicle validation — four weeks of daily driving, 200+ labelled events, first Mapbox heatmap.
Fleet pilot — five units on a taxi operator, city-scale data, council-facing demo.
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