Pothole app
created in Fredericton
CBC News
Posted: Apr 16, 2012 1:00 PM AT
Last Updated: Apr 16, 2012 2:51 PM AT
A new iPhone app has been created by two University of
New Brunswick students and a recent graduate to alert municipal officials of
potholes in Fredericton and other cities.
Coady and Drew Cameron think their Totalpave app, which
should be ready to launch next year, can save cities tens of thousands of
dollars.
The Fredericton brothers, who are fourth year engineering
students, and their friend Mark Feero created the app to help cities better
maintain roads.
Using GPS and a motion detector, the app sends
information about a bad pothole straight to city hall.
“The way we plan on doing this is using an iPhone…to
calculate the measurement between bumps and valleys in a roadway,” Drew Cameron
said.
The application will isolate the point in a road that is
degrading.
The app has been under development for six months, and
it's a good fit for the brothers.
Coady Cameron matched his civil engineering knowledge
with Drew Cameron’s business know-how.
“I've just been learning about this kind of stuff in
school and the standard way that they collect this data, it just seems so
similar to technology available with smartphones today.”
The app won the national Nicol Entrepreneurial Award last
month in Ottawa.
The award, founded by businessman Wes Nicol in 1997, is
designed to generate and reward interest in entrepreneurship on the part of
undergraduate students at participating universities across Canada.
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