Increasing Safety on Roadways and Extending the Life of Resources

Summit Design and Engineering Services (Summit), powered by Blyncsy, can deliver clients the most up-to-date and accurate data on your City’s roadways using the most cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies.

By combining the use of Blyncsy’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) product, Payver, and Summit’s insights, our partnership will provide innovative ways to manage resources like pavement and roadway assets.

An example of how Blyncsy’s Payver can be used in combination with Summit’s expertise is by using dashcam imagery and AI to automate pavement management, providing PASER and HD-PCI Scoring, Cracking Rates, Paitline Scoring, Asset Inventory, and Condition Assessments.

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Payver’s Automatic Detection of Striping Conditions

AI Vision Delivers Intelligent Insights on Your Roadways

Summit uses Blyncsy’s Pavyer technology to put dashcam footage to work. Pavyer takes that everyday dashcam footage and enhances it with artificial intelligence that has the ability to detect cracking automatically and provide PASER analysis and striping conditions.

Payver technology also allows Summit to detect roadside assets that require maintenance in near real-time. This includes fallen or leaning signs, roadside debris, and street lighting issues.

How Payver is Used For Pavement
How Payver is Used For Roadside Assets

Pavement

Efficiently Manage Your Pavement

By applying machine learning algorithms to dash cam imagery, Payver can automatically detect where and when your pavement needs maintenance. Blyncsy prides itself on partnering with the industry’s most innovative and respected consulting firms, like Summit.

Cracking and Potholes

Payver can automatically detect cracking and potholes within 1% accuracy of LiDar. With Payver, pavement maintenance issues can be detected in near real-time so that you can preserve the life of your pavement. Rather than sending out LiDar trucks to scan roadways, Payver can automatically and passively deliver the same results at a fraction of the cost. Payver’s insights can help predict the Remaining Service Life of your pavement in order to extend the useful life of your resources.

Pavement cracking example that shows PASER score rating for each crack in the roadway

PASER Scoring

With Payver, you can passively and automatically conduct PASER analysis of your roadways. Stop sending employees to scan roadways and let Payver do it for you.

  • Reduce Emissions
  • Increase Efficiency
  • Increase Safety
Example of a PASER screen showing an example of roadway conditions and its PASER score.

Pavement Marking Scoring

With Payver, you can gain automated insights into the quality of your pavement markings. We also have a paint line degradation feature where agencies can view the quality of their paint lines over time via an automatically generated line graph.

Example of a screen showing paint line degradation scoring.

Active Transportation

Using Payver helps push toward Vision Zero, which has set a goal to shift how we prioritize safety in our everyday transportation system, which in turn helps to save lives. Payver can rate the quality of your active transportation markings such as:

  • Bike Lanes
  • Cross Walks
  • Sidewalks
  • Intersection Crossings
Example of a faded crosswalk
Faded crosswalk in a city

Roadside Assets

Manage Roadside Assets From Your Desk or Mobile Device

Using dash cam imagery and machine learning algorithms, Blyncsy’s Payver can automatically and passively detect roadside asset maintenance issues.

Signs

Summit uses Blyncsy’s Payver technology to automatically detect if signs are leaning, missing, or damaged in near real-time so that they can be fixed or replaced efficiently. Missing signs can lead to injuries or even fatalities and are considered a safety critical issue that needs to be addressed in a timely manner.

Yield signs on a roadway

Curb Detection

Curb-side and gutter debris are both significant contributors to flooding. Using Blyncsy’s Payver technology, Summit can find and clear debris effectively and cover large areas simultaneously.

The technology has the ability to detect:

  • Flooding
  • Trash
  • Blockages
Detection example of curb detection

Debris

With machine vision provided by Blyncsy’s Pavyer, Summit has the capability to get automated notifications when trash or other debris is on or near roadways. It enables Summit to know where to send clean-up crews and when safety critical issues occur so that we can respond effectively and efficiently.

Piece of debris on the highway

Street Lights

Street light management currently relies on employees having to drive roads to search for maintenance issues or on a public complaint.

Automatically detect if street lights are out at night or on during the day with Payver to:

  • Increase Safety
  • Save Time
  • Save Money
  • Save Energy and Resources
Stop sign falling over on corner of the street

How Summit Uses Blyncy’s Payver Technology to Better Roadways for Municipalities

Town of Hillsborough Pavement Preservation

Understanding the pavement and safety features of your community’s roadways is vital. Summit’s partnership with Blyncsy allows your community to efficiently asses and remediate issues and develop a prioritized plan and schedule.

For the Town of Hillsborough, we reviewed and adjusted street priorities, determined the costs of repairs and overlays, and prepared and advertised all bid documents. Once the paving and repair work began, we managed the inspection and testing per NCDOT specifications.

The Summit Powered by Blyncsy partnership enables your team to have a holistic approach to managing the maintenance of your community’s transportation assets.

Additional Intelligent Insights that Blyncsy Can Provide Through Payver

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Smart Work Zones

Gain Automatic insights on the status of your work zone assets

  • Barrels
  • Cones
  • Variable Message Signs

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Transit

Automatic road view into the condition of bus stops

  • Graffiti
  • Trash
  • Blockages

News & Updates

Summit and Blyncsy Reach New Exclusivity Deal Across Multiple States

[Hillsborough, NC] — Summit Design and Engineering Services, Inc., and Blyncsy, Inc., are furthering their partnership by entering into an exclusive service agreement for North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. This partnership extends Summit’s expertise and capabilities to clients in these states, where the firm will assist the Department of Transportation and other government agencies in collecting data for and maintaining safety-critical transportation infrastructure.

This newly enhanced agreement builds upon a previous partnership established between Summit and Blyncsy in 2022 involving Payver, Blyncsy’s revolutionary new technology. Payver can automatically detect the presence and intensity of cracking, striping conditions, and potholes using machine vision. The automated PASER assessments, AI-PCI, and cracking rates done by Payver come within 1% of LiDAR accuracy at only 10% of the overall cost. Furthermore, the automated, crowd-sourced imagery used by Payver has the potential to replace over 70% of physical surveying, leading to a direct reduction in carbon emissions from manual inspections while increasing rider safety.

By utilizing Payver technology, Summit can harness AI to transform and improve dashcam footage to detect flaws and degradation in pavement and roadway assets. This innovative new process will extend the usable life of existing transportation infrastructure by detecting roadside assets that require maintenance in near real-time, streamlining the process of identifying and reporting issues to municipalities.

Summit, which maintains a robust maintenance management department, is committed to providing state-of-the-art services and technologies to clients. This expanded partnership with Blyncsy is an exciting opportunity to build on this commitment, which will provide smarter, safer, and more responsive transportation management to drivers across multiple states.

Ask How Summit, Powered by Blyncsy, Can Help the Roadways in Your Municipality

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Matt Bales

Vice President of Strategic Initiatives
at Summit Design and Engineering Services

Matt has over 10 years of experience in the government relations and advocacy space. His career has centered around developing a plan and story and communicating it to the right audience at the right time to help shape the desired outcome.

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Mark Pittman

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
at Blyncsy

As the founder of Blyncsy, Mark is passionate about improving the world through technology and innovation. Prior to his current role, Mark worked in areas as diverse as political campaigns, law firms, start-ups, and even a Fortune 500 company.

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