{
  "id": 12608407,
  "title": "This Bengaluru engineer has built an AI-powered app to report potholes",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/this-bengaluru-engineer-has-built-an-ai-powered-app-to-report-potholes",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-07T10:05:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/this-bengaluru-engineer-has-built-an-ai-powered-app-to-report-potholes/article71550124.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Over the last several months, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has been excavating utility and pipeline projects across Bengaluru, resulting in broken roads and numerous potholes. Software engineer Gaurav Sen, founder of AIEngg, an upskilling platform for software engineers, decided to address the issue by creating an AI-powered app called Pothole Reporter. The Android app, which launched its beta version on September 21, automatically detects potholes using a vision model and maps the location to the responsible municipal body, matching the pothole against public road contracts to identify a likely contractor. The app requires only an image of the pothole, its location, dimensions, and a likely tender number to be reported to the relevant municipal commissioner via email. Gaurav hopes to integrate Pothole Reporter with Sahaaya, a civic grievance portal, to create a single record and observability platform for civic complaints, allowing citizens and officials to track the status of complaints in real-time.",
  "summary": "Pothole Reporter uses AI to detect potholes, map their locations, identify the responsible civic body and contractor, and send complaints to municipal authorities",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}