Sensor-Enabled System and Method for Monitoring the Health, Condition, and/or Status of Pavement and Vehicular Infrastructure

A method for pavement infrastructure intelligence monitoring, comprising:

• installing a sensor enabled geosynthetic layer within pavement infrastructure having a surface course and a substructure, wherein the sensor enabled geosynthetic layer is disposed within the substructure and beneath the surface course, the sensor enabled geosynthetic layer comprising a geogrid or a geofabric carrying an arrangement of one or more sensors to generate signals indicative of at least one parameter of the substructure;
• providing an edge device comprising a microcontroller connected to the arrangement of the one or more sensors and capable of receiving the signals;
• providing a communication interface operatively coupling the edge device to a computing network and configured to transmit data derived from the signals;
• and
• initiating an infrastructure processing engine on the computing network, wherein the infrastructure processing engine evaluates the at least one parameter against a threshold parameter and generates an alert upon detection of the at least one parameter exceeding the threshold parameter.