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Abstract : The increase in the number of vehicles running on the roads challenges the road maintenance department to meet the demand for timely repair of the road and therefore, find a unified solution to identify the road construction problems such as potholes, bumps, corrugations, waves, defective street cuts, etc. Without a better real-time traffic alerts system, efficient maintenance of city roads will be difficult. So, a more effective monitoring system is required for detecting and solving road infrastructure problems. This research work presents an analytical model of a system that detects pavement deformities. The system presents a mobile application that captures the accelerometer profile using the in-built accelerometer in smartphone, to obtain the location of pavement deformities. The variations in the accelerometer values with respect to the vehicle speed are taken into account.