Infrastructure maintenance field20230403

Under-road cavity exploration services

This method performs highly precise detection of cavities under roads in a short time. This prevents sinkhole accidents for cars and other objects.

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Infrastructure Maintenance, Management, and Renovation > Infrastructure maintenance field

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Overview

Currently, it is said that more than 3,000 incidents of road cave-ins occur annually in Japan. Many such incidents are caused by the deterioration of underground pipes, such as sewage pipes and rainwater pipes. This is because water leaks into the ground from broken pipes or loose joints, which erodes the surrounding ground and creates cavities that cause cave-ins. If a road caves in, there is a danger of serious accidents involving falling people and vehicles. Furthermore, firefighting and rescue activities will be greatly hindered if roads become unusable in an emergency, such as an accident or disaster.
By using exploration vehicles equipped with ground penetrating radar for detecting cavities under roads, OYO Corporation provides a service to prevent cave-ins by using non-destructive methods to detect cavities under roads.

Features

Scans cavities inside roads at intervals of 2.5 cm even at 80km / h

Underground radar is a technology that can identify dangerous voids and buried pipes by irradiating electromagnetic waves from above roads. Our voids exploration vehicles can investigate the road at a high density of only 2.5cm intervals even when driving at speeds of 80 km per hour.

100% cavity detection (recall rate) using AI

OYO Corporation is the first in the industry to develop automatic cavity analysis technology using AI (artificial intelligence). We utilize this technology in our exploration service.
Analyze the huge amount of measured data acquired while driving in almost real time, and the voids reproducibility (discernment of the voids) is 100% accuracy.
The use of AI improves survey accuracy and significantly shortens the time required to analyze cavities. This contributes to the early implementation of countermeasures and reduced risk of accidents due to cave-ins.