Till now you must have heard, seen and understood about the ultrasound machine of the human body. Have you ever wondered what would happen if a road breaks down or there is some problem in it? For this, the National Highway Authority has prepared a device through which every aspect of the road, including its wear and tear, will be known online.
The name of this machine is NSV (Network Survey Vehicle). Road safety expert Anurag Kulshrestha told in a special conversation with TV9 Bharatvarsh that it provides very accurate information about the roads which can be used to improve the roads. He said that such technology is being used in many countries of the world. Which is now going to be used in India also.
How different is this system?
Generally, if we talk about survey of a road, then if we talk about manual, then 80 kilometers of road can be audited in 1 hour or 8 members in a day. With this technology, about 300 kilometers of survey can be done in a day. If there is any crack of even 1 millimeter, it will be recorded in it.
what is its use
Anurag Kulshrestha said that NSV is a high-tech vehicle to automatically survey the condition, quality and inventory of roads and highways. It is used by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to measure detailed data of road quality (potholes, cracks, roughness). It is even being claimed that accurate data of roadside signboards, lights and even drains can be prepared from it.
How does this system work?
Many types of state-of-the-art sensors are installed inside the NSV, which collect accurate road data even while moving at normal speed. In which the unevenness and depth of the road surface is measured through a laser road profilometer.
amazing camera
Anurag Kulshrestha told that high resolution cameras are installed all around the NSV, which capture 360-degree pictures and 3D point cloud data of the road surface to the right, left, front and bottom of the road. Along with this, it tracks the exact geographical position (latitude, longitude and altitude) of the vehicle through DGPS (Differential GPS). Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automatically detects cracks and potholes on the road with the help of lasers.
data in command center
The data received from NSV is first received by the command center. The data is analyzed to decide whether the road needs repair or not. Once the data is prepared, action begins. Everything is online so that accountability of all is fixed.
responsibility will be decided
Anurag Kulshrestha said that once the road is repaired through this system, it will be a very helpful evidence in setting accountability because whatever is recorded will be recorded digitally instead of manually and whatever action is acceptable will be taken and fixed through technology.
Why is it necessary to have better roads?
According to statistics, there were about 1.8 lakh deaths in road accidents in the first half of 2025 in India, of which more than 29,000 occurred on national highways. According to claims, road accidents cause a loss of about 3% to India’s GDP. The most surprising thing is that 66.4% of the deaths occur among youth aged 18–45 years. Among the states where more cases of road accidents have been reported, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka are prominent.
