RFID cards have been around for a while now and it has been mainly used to store some kind of monetary value. Currently these cards can be seen in the transportation, telecommunication and retail sectors. This project aims to design a vehicle parking card system using RFID technology that can be usable in the transportation, retail and educational sectors. The RFID card will be used as means for identification, security and cash.
This project is an innovative highway toll collection system that provides the ultimate solution for the people staying on the highways to operate the toll gates. This enables the drivers to be charged when they enter on to the highway roads, while simplifying the monitoring and collection of toll tax. This powerful RFID card functions as an in collection meter, eliminating the need to search for coins when going on a highway road. This project also provides an efficient alternative to coin-operated meters and pay and display ticketing systems. Simple and cost-effective to implement, this project operates as a stand-alone system or tax collection systems to eliminate fraud and reduce cash handling.
The significant advantage of all types of RFID systems is the non contact, non-line-of-sight nature of the technology. Tags can be read through a variety of substances such as snow, fog, ice, paint, crusted grime, and other visually and environmentally challenging conditions, where barcodes or other optically read technologies would be useless. This project can provide security for the industries, companies, etc.
Every driver owns his vehicle parking card. This card contains the amount for the tax fares. The RFID reader will be fixed at the toll gates. If a person enters on the highway roads, he has to place his parking card before the reader. The reader reads the card and the controller calculates the tax amount and automatically deducts this amount from the driver parking card. If the balance is low in the card, a buzzer alert will be indicated and the user has to recharge the card for the parking fares. The amount of balance deducted will be visualized on LCD display.
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