While it’s certainly important to monitor the condition of paved roads, keeping an eye on the surface will only tell you so much. You also need to know what’s going on with the underlying asphalt, which is where an embedded layer of electronic fabric is designed to come in.
Okay cool, but will this eventually break down and cause more pollution on top of toxins leeching from the asphalt?
It sounds like it’s just natural fiber fabric with some wire woven into it. All the electronics are in a box beside the road.