Smart Vehicle Identification System using RFID Technology

Abstract

With increase in number of vehicles in Bhutan, some of the major problems faced are the waste of the time and effort of drivers and concern officials on duty for doing manual registration of the vehicle details at the checkpoints and also it is difficult to keep track of the records related to vehicles passing through these entry points for national security reasons. This report presents the development of a prototype of a Smart Vehicle Identification System using RFID technology and its key functionalities. This smart system is proposed as a solution to be used for providing effective and efficient services of vehicle registration at the entry gate of any organization’s premises or at the immigration checkpoints along the national highway in Bhutan. A prototype of the proposed smart system was developed as a web based application using Medoo Framework and Raspberry Pi for automatic identification of vehicles passing through the gate with RFID reader. All information related to vehicles including their owners and drivers are stored and managed using MySQL database server. The functionalities of the proposed smart system prototype are tested successfully on the development platform.