Stolen Vehicle Detection using RFID in Automated Toll Plaza

Automated Toll Plaza system using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) emerges as a converging technology where time and efficiency are matters of priority in toll collection systems of present day. Most of the toll collection systems commonly used in India is manual transaction. Nowadays, streams of traffic are increased and toll gate on highways are congested. It is a major cause of traffic jam. The objective of this journal paper is to transform manual transaction to automated toll collection with the help of RFID technology and also enable stolen vehicle detection. For the RFID system, 13.56 MHz passive RFID reader and tag pairs are used. The balance deduction and stolen vehicle identification takes place through a centralized database and the payment receipt of the successful transaction is intimated to the user's mobile through 'way to SMS'. The Raspberry-Pi 3 microcontroller is used to control the stepper motor and capture the driver picture and send it via email to police network. By implementing this system there would be a high possibility to reduce highway traffic and help to curtail the theft of vehicles.