Vaisala Ltd

RoadAI

The technology uses a smartphone app to collect video data which is then processed using Computer Vision; this process automatically analyses the video data and RoadAI applies a methodology based on the UKPMS to categorise and report pavement condition, road signs, road markings, surface markings and other assets.

Features

• Video capture using smartphone app from any vehicle
• Automated data analysis using computer vision technology
• Results within a few hours of upload
• Survey at normal driven speed
• Data collection multiple times per annum
• Unlimited devices and users
• Data easily integrated into asset management systems
• Reports in HMDIF (UKPMS), Excel, Shapefile, GeoJSON and other
• Accessible through web based user interface

Benefits

• Easy to use without any specialized equipment
• Flexible deployment with any vehicle or team
• No complicated manual analysis required
• Quick access to the data via cloud user interface
• Continuous survey of the network enables early intervention maintenance plans
• Reduced ad hoc site visits
• Network deterioration modelling
• Safety and environmental benefits
• Risk based management of assets
• Cost savings

£8,500 to £250,000 a licence a year

• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at marina.malieva@vaisala.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

581776053828682

Contact

Marina Malieva
+447887537562
marina.malieva@vaisala.com

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Private cloud
• Service constraints: Limited to Android devices
• System requirements: Tbc

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Instant confirmation email
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Onsite support
• Support levels: First line technical support helpdesk 24/7/365; Second line technical support Mon-Fri 7am-3pm UK time; Business support Mon-Fri 9am-5pm UK time
• Support available to third parties: No

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: A series of project review meetings will be put in place for the purpose of reviewing progress against project objectives. It is critical that Strategic Managers and Operational Teams responsible for managing and delivering the project on behalf of the customer attend these meetings.; A project manager will be assigned to the project on day 1, project management meetings will be booked with the agreed project team, and at the first project meeting the project goals will be outlined, and in consultation with the team, goals will be prioritised and built into the project plan that will be used as a working document to manage the project.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats: PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: All data can be exported from the UI
• End-of-contract process: Export of all data can be done from the user interface and is FOC

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Opera
• Application to install: Yes
• Compatible operating systems: Android
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: Our service combines data collection via mobile app which then is processed in the cloud and accessed via desktop browser interface
• Service interface: No
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: Purpose of this API is to enable easy access to mobile observation data provided by Computer Vision team. Most of the Mobile observations are video data analyzed by computer vision. API key OR credentials for Vaisala RoadAI are needed for using this API. With credentials temporary API token can be fetched from login/ resource. API key OR API token should be delivered with every request to resource endpoint.Limitations; Currently 100 is maximum amount of records returned with limit parameter. To fetch more use offset parameter or next parameter (cursor). Cursor is faster to loop through big set of records. Valid next cursor can be found from Links-header. Default size of collection is 30 records.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats: Open API (also known as Swagger)
• API sandbox or test environment: Yes
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: Users can create different shares (folders) for their data, the user with administrative rights can add/delete users and provide access to specific data

Scaling

• Independence of resources: RoadAI uses a highly scalable, container based cloud platform architecture. The computing and storage capacity can be easily scaled by adding more servers and even data centers to the cluster.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: How many hours of videos; phones usage
• Reporting types: Reports on request

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: None

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations: European Economic Area (EEA)
• User control over data storage and processing locations: No
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: ‘IT Health Check’ performed by a Tigerscheme qualified provider or a CREST-approved service provider
• Protecting data at rest: Physical access control, complying with another standard
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type: Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Through the reports or with the API
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats:
  • Shapefile
  • GeoJSON
  • HMDIF
• Data import formats: Other
• Other data import formats:
  • Shapefile for network layer
  • GeoJSON for network layer
  • MPEG4 video footage

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: TLS (version 1.2 or above)
• Data protection within supplier network: Other
• Other protection within supplier network: No special data-in-transit security measures within the protected, RoadAI secure network used in service internal traffic.

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: We provide 99.5% 24/7/365 availability. A typical refund policy would be to extend the contract duration with the number of downtime hours exceeding the SLA limit.
• Approach to resilience: Available on request
• Outage reporting: Email alerts

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Most management interfaces are integrated into the web-based RoadAI UI and API which have a fine-grained username/password or access token -based permissions system. Support channels and management interfaces are only accessible by authorized persons, e.g. RoadAI developers and service managers, customers' admin users.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: User-defined
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: User-defined
• How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: No

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: No
• Security governance approach: Vaisala has an Information Security Management system as stated on the "Vaisala Policies" page: https://www.vaisala.com/en/vaisala-policies. A more thorough description of all policies are available on request.
• Information security policies and processes: Vaisala has an Information Security Management system as stated on the "Vaisala Policies" page: https://www.vaisala.com/en/vaisala-policies. A more thorough description of all policies is available on request.

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Changes to the system are done by using a version control system. The changes are reviewed internally by using a pull request process. Changes are released by an automated continuous delivery pipeline once a pull request has been, reviewed, tested and merged into the production branch. For significant changes, a change log notification is sent to RoadAI users.
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: The systems are regularly scanned for malware. RoadAI is also in the process on adopting automated open source package vulnerability scans for all its services.
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: Potential compromises are identified by monitoring anomalies in the number of connection attempts, resource usage, and events like unexpected restarts, liveness probes, etc. in all RoadAI services, and by running security scans on the Vaisala network. Our IAAS provider, Hetzner, also scans for certain types of attacks in their network like DDOS.; ; We respond to potential compromises within the same business day by identifying what is compromised and imposing further usage restrictions if needed. Within 2 business days we assess the full impact, notify affected customers and plan on how to prevent similar compromises in the future.
• Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Incident management approach: Users can report incidents via RoadAI support service channels 24/7/365.; We have a developer on active support duty at business hours to handle minor incidents like bugs, problems in the processing pipeline, service degradation etc. ; ; Incident reports outside the European business hours are received by Vaisala centralized support center. ; ; Serious incidents like severe or complete service unavailability are escalated to the entire dev team to fix the issue and to the service managers to contact our customers.; ; Incident reports are created for each severe incident.

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality

  Fighting climate change

  Activities that:; - Deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the ; contract including working towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions.

  Covid-19 recovery

  Help local communities to manage and recover from the impact of ; COVID-19 :; - Support organisations and businesses to manage and recover from the impacts of COVID-19, including where new ways of working are needed to deliver services.; - Improve workplace conditions that support the COVID-19 recovery effort including effective social distancing, remote working, and sustainable travel solutions.

  Tackling economic inequality

  Increase supply chain resilience and capacity:; - Support innovation and disruptive technologies throughout the supply chain to deliver lower cost and/or higher quality goods and services. ; - Support the development of scalable and future-proofed new methods to modernise delivery and increase productivity

Pricing

• Price: £8,500 to £250,000 a licence a year
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: Give customer the ability to try RoadAI, collect some data and view on user interface.; Including:; 4 weeks or free data collection and access to data via the online user interface; Introductory meeting; Basic training; Review meeting to support customer activity; Final review to evaluate customer progress; https://www.vaisala.com/en/lp/roadai-pilot
• Link to free trial: https://www.xweather.com/roadai/roadai-book-a-demo

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at marina.malieva@vaisala.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.