WaterView unveils TraCK at the International Baltic Road Conference 2025

WaterView took part as an exhibitor at the International Baltic Road Conference 2025, one of the most important events for the road infrastructure and smart mobility sector in Eastern Europe, which on September 3–4 brought together professionals, institutions, and innovative companies from the Baltic countries, Scandinavia, and Poland.

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At the Lithuanian Exhibition and Conference Centre "Litexpo" in Vilnius, road infrastructure professionals from many European countries were invited to discuss and share insights on the transport networks of tomorrow. During the conference sessions, both current challenges and innovative solutions for ensuring safe and sustainable future transport were discussed. Topics included road infrastructure maintenance, the adoption of green solutions, the latest innovations in materials, processes and communication systems, as well as strategies for coordinated management of major international road networks.

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The conference was accompanied by an expo space where more than 200 exhibitors showcased advanced solutions for road construction and maintenance. Here we unveiled the first prototype of the TraCK hardware kit, a solution designed to simplify and automate road asset monitoring and maintenance.

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TraCK: the new frontier of road asset management

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TraCK is a compact hardware kit, easily installable on any vehicle, that leverages the power of edge AI to analyze real-time footage from onboard cameras. Thanks to this technology and to the visual intelligence solutions developed by Waterview for TraCK, it is possible to:

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• Automatically detect road surface defects and deterioration, such as potholes, uneven surfaces, and families of cracks and fissures.
• Perform traffic signs recognition, creating inventories and identifying potential issues such as missing or deteriorated elements.
• Detect vegetation interfering with the roadway, enabling more effective maintenance planning and improving the perceived quality for road users.
• Have always up-to-date data quickly and reliably, without the need for lengthy manual inspection processes.

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The goal of the TraCK kit is to provide road authorities and operators with a scalable and sustainable tool, capable of reducing monitoring time and costs while increasing safety and efficiency in the maintenance of urban and interurban road infrastructures.

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How TraCK works

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The TraCK kit consists of an edge AI server equipped with an NVIDIA Orin board, a local storage disk with variable capacity, and a UPS to manage power-on and shutdown phases, controlled directly by the vehicle key through a single power cable to be plugged into the cigarette lighter socket.

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Everything is enclosed in a robust metal casing, properly ventilated and with IP55-rated dust and water resistance. It features a door for internal inspection or component replacement, and a connector panel for connecting up to 4 cameras. These cameras can be mounted and oriented directly on the TraCK body using aluminum guides, or installed in specific positions on the vehicle to capture particular views of the road context.

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The TraCK kit can be mounted on the vehicle roof using convenient magnets or an aluminum frame fixed to the roof bars, with an additional steel safety cable always included.

On TraCK’s onboard computer, WaterView’s edge AI operating environment - ARCO - is installed, which provides universal camera interfaces, onboard and remote diagnostic systems, anonymization for images and videos included in defect or anomaly notifications, as well as data transmission and sharing systems based on standard formats and protocols such as JSON, MQTT, and Kafka.

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The video analysis functions developed by WaterView for TraCK can be used at cruising speeds of up to 100 km/h, enabling deployment across all types of road networks.

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An international debut

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The International Baltic Road Conference 2025 represented WaterView’s first opportunity to share with international industry experts our vision of a future where road infrastructure management will be increasingly data-driven and automated.

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The interest and feedback received confirm the growing attention toward solutions capable of combining artificial intelligence, edge computing, and privacy protection, with an innovation-driven approach serving communities, improving the quality of services offered to users, and enhancing the safety of road management and maintenance operators.

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Looking ahead

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The preview presentation of the TraCK hardware kit prototype was only the first step: in the coming weeks, our product will enter the testing and certification phases for real-world applications, with the goal of launching it on the market at its official debut at Intertraffic 2026, in Amsterdam from March 10–13, 2026.

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With TraCK, WaterView strengthens its mission: transforming visual perception into valuable intelligence for monitoring the environment and infrastructures, contributing to safer, more resilient, and more efficient cities and road networks.

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