Every metre in 360°
Look in any direction from any point on the drive: the surface, the kerbs, the signs.
Roads and pavements
Survey a Road Without a Survey Vehicle
Mount a 360° camera on any car and drive the route. SpatialSense finds potholes and cracks in the footage, your team decides which ones are real, and the Road Condition report and pavement condition score are built only from the defects you accepted.
- Any car, one 360° camera
- People approve every defect
- 24/7 one-to-one support
The short answer
A road condition survey usually means a specialist vehicle or a crew walking the kerb with a clipboard. With SpatialSense, any car with a 360° camera on the roof records the road. AI road defect tracking runs over the drive and proposes each pothole and crack it finds. Your team reviews them one by one, corrects a box or a label if needed, and only the defects a person accepted go into the Road Condition report and its pavement condition score.
What a drive gives you
- The whole road in 360°Every frame of the drive, on the map, for anyone on the team to open.
- Defects found for youAI flags potholes and cracking along the route as proposals to review.
- People decideAccept or reject each detection, and fix its box or label before you accept it.
- A scored reportThe Road Condition report and pavement condition score use only the accepted defects.
- Cancel and rerunProgress shows live while the analysis runs, and you can stop a run you no longer need.
From a drive to a road report
Trace records the drive. SpatialSense finds the defects and writes the report.
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Create a road project
Name it and set the type in Trace. Highways, bridges, tunnels and railways are built in.
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Drive the route
Mount the 360° camera on the car and follow the arrow along the planned route while it records.
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Your route, as you drove it
The full 360° drive opens in SpatialSense on the map, frame by frame.
Why do road surveys happen so rarely?
Road owners want regular condition data. The way it is usually collected makes regular hard.
Special vehicles
A dedicated survey vehicle is a big booking, so many networks are surveyed less often than their owners would like.
Manual walk-overs
Walking the kerb with a form is slow, and two inspectors can score the same defect differently.
AI with nobody checking
Automatic detection without a review step puts false positives in front of the client.
A car and a 360° camera can drive the route as often as you need, and a review step keeps the report to defects someone has looked at.
Road survey in SpatialSense
AI proposes, people decide
Each detection waits for a person to accept or reject it.
With a scan, if you have one
A 360° drive can sit with a scan of the same road in one project.
A 360° drive and a manual walk-over, side by side
The same stretch of road, surveyed two ways.
| A 360° drive with SpatialSense | A manual walk-over | |
|---|---|---|
| Equipment | Any car and one 360° camera. | Inspectors on foot with forms. |
| Finding defects | AI proposes, a person accepts or rejects. | Spotted and scored by eye. |
| Evidence | The 360° frame behind every defect. | Photos when someone remembers. |
| Report | Road Condition report scored from accepted defects. | Typed up afterwards. |
| Next survey | Drive it again whenever you need to. | Book the crew again. |
Your first road survey
Trace access is set up with you on a demo, so the first drive is right.
- Book a demoWe set up Trace Car Mode and your first road project with you.
- Mount the cameraFix the 360° camera to the car and connect it in Trace.
- Drive the routeFollow the planned route while Trace records the drive.
- Run the analysisRun AI road defect tracking on the drive and review each detection.
- Export the reportGenerate the Road Condition report from the defects you accepted.
Frequently asked questions
Can I do a road condition survey with a 360° camera?
Yes. Mount a 360° camera on a car, record the drive with Trace Car Mode, and run AI road defect tracking in SpatialSense. Your team reviews each defect, and the Road Condition report is built from the accepted ones.
What is a pavement condition index?
The pavement condition index (PCI) is a 0 to 100 rating of a road surface, worked out from the type, severity and amount of each defect. SpatialSense gives a pavement condition score built from the defects your team accepted; ask us on a demo how it maps to the index your authority uses.
Which defects does the AI find?
Road defect tracking flags defects such as potholes and longitudinal and transverse cracking in the 360° frames. Every detection is a proposal until a person accepts it.
Do AI mistakes end up in the report?
No. You can move or relabel a detection before accepting it, reject the ones that are wrong, and the report uses only accepted defects.
Which camera do I need?
Trace records with the Insta360 X4 and X5. Book a demo and we help you set up the mount and the route. The platform itself has a 30-day free trial with no card details.
See a road survey on your route
Book a demo, drive one of your roads, and see the defects and the score from your own footage.