CONTENT

Abstract..i

List of Tables..ii

List of Figure..iii

1. Introduction3

2. Motivation..5

3. Literature Review...6

4. Overall Analysis of Reported Work8

5. Problem definition / Formulation9

6. Objective.10

7. Proposed Methodology..11

8. Proposed Work12

9. Probable Outcome...13

10. Tools / Platform..14

References..15

ABSTRACT

Amidst the rapid increase in population and urbanization, the use of automobiles is increasing rapidly. Though there are improved safety and security features with advancement in technology, there are no vehicle regulatory systems that provide automation in vehicle monitoring and act violations. The main objective of the work is to have a centralized server based monitoring of vehicles with an advanced security system realized in levels of verification for Vehicles. In addition to this, the centralized server maintains data bases i.e. one for the vehicle. A unique id is allotted for the vehicle as RFID tag can be used to identify the object. The unique identifiers linked to the respective vehicles data bases, the penalty/toll fare when the vehicle passes by toll gates/check posts, Traffic signals, roads. This provides a way for reducing any possibility of corruption in motor vehicles section as the penalty will be charged straightforwardly from the person's details and automated SMS will be sent to the owner containing charge and penalty as text message by an automated system.

INTRODUCTIONEmbedded system is now an emerging technology in various fields, which is well known for its compact size, processing speed etc. It also plays a leading role in security and process management. Smart RFID Tag is a plastic card with a chip containing some antenna is widely used in many countries. The details about the license holder like his/her name, address, computer generated license number, date of issue, biometric fingerprint and Digital signature will be recorded in the computerized database via RFID unique ID by registration of vehicle in main vehicle departments computer sever system. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a common term used to depict a system utilizing radio waves by which the object or person is identified by means of a unique serial number. A centralized database management system on the other hand has many advantages in taking the technology to the next level. The work deals with the federalization of vehicle act automation which has a centralized database helps in maintaining the datas of vehicles and drivers. The RFID based system helps in tracking the vehicles and collecting the penalties/toll charges directly from their bank accounts.

Linkage between officers handheld device and central database server is connected via Zigbee wireless device. Zigbee are the most effective and are widely used wireless communication techniques. The zigbee module helps to notify the persons about the debited charge amount and the reason for the deduction. Zigbee is used for communication between the vehicle unit and the main server. This security system is simple and cost effective when compared to the use of gadgets which are of high cost.

MOTIVATIONDigitalization Vehicle Number Plate IdentificationVehicle License Plate Recognition is an important area of Image processing which has various applications. In situations where no standard number plate format and font is maintained, identification becomes difficult. In this paper, we discussed effect of Edge Detection and Template Matching on identification of Vehicle Number Plates with various types of fonts. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method is simple and satisfactory, considering the complexity of the input image.

Automobile navigation guidance, control and safety systemAn automobile is equipped with an inertial measuring unit, an RF GPS satellite navigation unit and a local area digitized street map system for precise electronic positioning and route guidance between departures and arrivals, is equipped with RF receivers to monitor updated traffic condition information for dynamic rerouting guidance with a resulting reduction in travel time, traffic congestion and pollution emissions, is also equipped with vehicular superceding controls substantially activated during unstable vehicular conditions sensed by the inertial measuring unit to improve the safe operation of the automobile so as to reduce vehicular accidents, and is further equipped with telecommunications through which emergency care providers are automatically notified of the precise location of the automobile in the case of an accident so as to improve the response time of road-side emergency care.

LITERATURE REVIEW

Vehicle identification is a research area where image processing methods are used to identify vehicles by detecting and identifying the license plate numbers. Typical vehicle identification systems consist of three main stages. They are the identification and tracking of vehicles through motion, locating the license plate and accurately identifying the numbers in the license plate.

Although many intensive research studies have been conducted in other countries in the area of automatic vehicle identification, to our knowledge, there is virtually no research studies conducted in Sri Lanka in this area. However, vehicle identification is an essential area in the development of intelligent traffic systems and surveillance. Given the current security situation in the country due to ethnic conflicts, this is one of the areas where there is an urgent need for the development of devices that could be used in variety of situations to ease the security concerns. In addition, the use of vehicles in Sri Lanka has increased rapidly, especially in recent years, due to urbanization and modernization, and thus, traffic congestion in cities has become a major issue. Therefore, control of vehicles and identification of traffic violators to maintain discipline, is becoming a necessary task in many cities. Automatic vehicle identification systems can be used effectively for this purpose

OVERALL ANALYSIS OF REPORTED WORK

PROBLEM DEFINITION / FORMULATION

Nearly every jurisdiction (provinces and states) requires motorists to keep their vehicle registration document in their vehicle and requires insurance companies to provide policyholders with insurance identification cards and for these cards to also be carried within owners vehicles. The vehicle registration document details vehicle and owner identifying information. This document can be used to compare what is on the vehicle (license plate, VIN, etc.) versus what is printed on the document and then against the Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) database. Similarly, the insurance identification card provides evidence of insurance coverage and information regarding the insurance company, policy number, name of the insured, effective date and expiration of coverage, and a description of the insured vehicles (normally make, model, and VIN). Some states require an insurance identification document to be presented at the time of vehicle registration or registration renewal.

In addition to being helpful in the completion of routine traffic stops or crash investigations, the vehicle registration and insurance identification documents are often key investigative tools in fatality crashes and criminal investigations. In one example, a trooper is investigating a motor vehicle crash where the driver and sole occupant is deceased and carrying no personal identification. The registration and insurance identification documents may be the only documents in the vehicle to help identify the deceased. In another example, an officer stops a vehicle and converses with the driver while asking for the vehicle registration and insurance identification documents. The information the driver provides orally does not match the information on the documents the driver retrieves from the glove box, which prompts the officer to investigate further.

OBJECTIVE

PROPOSED METHODOLOGY

Embedded systemAn embedded system is a computer that has been built to solve only a few very specific problems and is not easily changed. In contrast, a general-purpose computer can do many different jobs, and can be changed at any time with new programs for new jobs.An embedded system usually does not look like a computer, often there is no keyboard or monitor or mouse. But like any computer it has a processor and software, input and output. The word embedded means it is built into the system. It is a permanent part in a bigger system.For example, a controller is embedded in an elevator and tells the motor to move the elevator to different floors based on buttons that are pushed. A decoder is embedded in a satellite television set-top box to read a signal from the dish and send something that a TV understands. Often this type of system must do its work in a specific amount of time. This is called real-time computing. If a set-top box got interrupted to do another task, you would see a bad picture on the TV, for example. A general purpose computer will often have short pauses while it does something else, it is not real-time.Embedded systems control many of the common devices in use today, from card readers in hotel door locks to many controls in a car. They can be small like an MP3 player or a digital camera, to large systems like traffic lights, airplane controls, or assembly line controllers in a factory.GSM Modem/ Mobile networkGSM ModemA GSM modem is a specialized type of modem which accepts a SIM card, and operates over a subscription to a mobile operator, just like a mobile phone. From the mobile operator perspective, a GSM modem looks just like a mobile phone.When a GSM modem is connected to a System, this allows the system to use the GSM modem to communicate over the mobile network. While these GSM modems are most frequently used to provide mobile internet connectivity, many of them can also be used for sending and receiving SMS and MMS messages.Mobile NetworkA cellular network or mobile network is a wireless network distributed over land areas called cells, each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver, known as a cell site or base station. In a cellular network, each cell uses a different set of frequencies from neighboring cells, to avoid interference and provide guaranteed bandwidth within each cell.When joined together these cells provide radio coverage over a wide geographic area. This enables a large number of portable transceivers (e.g., mobile phones, pagers, etc.) to communicate with each other and with fixed transceivers and telephones anywhere in the network, via base stations, even if some of the transceivers are moving through more than one cell during transmission.Cellular networks offer a number of desirable features: More capacity than a single large transmitter, since the same frequency can be used for multiple links as long as they are in different cells Mobile devices use less power than with a single transmitter or satellite since the cell towers are closer Larger coverage area than a single terrestrial transmitter, since additional cell towers can be added indefinitely and are not limited by the horizonMajor telecommunications providers have deployed voice and data cellular networks over most of the inhabited land area of the Earth. This allows mobile phones and mobile computing devices to be connected to the public switched telephone network and public Internet. Private cellular networks can be used for research or for large organizations and fleets, such as dispatch for local public safety agencies or a taxicab company.

PROPOSED WORKHandheld unit for officer equipped with RFID reader, zigbee module and LCD

Fig : Handheld unit for officer equipped with RFID reader, zigbee module and LCD

Database server with zigbee and GSM modem

Fig : Database server with zigbee and GSM modem

PROBABLE OUTCOMEIn this paper we overviewed the problem of Vehicle Authentication system with various types of Vehicles. We proposed a Centralized Vehicle database server system, which provides result with significant accuracy, which is very simple to implement. The system will been tested on Visual basic software environment with satisfactory results in outer countries. Most of the time the input RFID value taken from Officer side Handheld device which have very good range, low battery consumption, fast and accurate transmission and reception. Given a better device the result should increase in accuracy significantly.

This project is designed as a system to give complete solution for transport related problems such as Traffic violation, Vehicle authentification and identification.

This project can also extended with small changes for Toll gate control, traffic signal control, traffic rules violation control, parking management, vehicle theft and special zone alert using the latest RFID technology. It is proposed as a low cost optimized solution using RFID and Zigbee wireless and GSM mobile technology. This is in line with the developed countries like USA, England, German and Japan, where RFID, zigbee RF and GSM technologies are widely used for traffic management. But in India we have not implemented any automated system for transport management due to prohibitive cost. Keeping this in mind I have proposed this system at low cost.

TOOLS / PLATFORMSOFTWAREEmbedded Development ToolsKEIL Vision 4:KEIL Vision IDE development tool is used to compile and debug the 8051 program written in C . Its working process is simple and easy to use. It helps to develop the embedded programs rapidly. Once the target code is generated it is dumped using flash magic software.

The Vision IDE from Keil combines project management, make facilities, source code editing, program debugging, and complete simulation in one powerful environment. The Vision development platform is easy-to-use and helping you quickly create embedded programs that work. The Vision editor and debugger are integrated in a single application that provides a seamless embedded project development environment.

Computer programming languageC #.NET:

C# is an elegant and type-safe object-oriented language that enables developers to build a variety of secure and robust applications that run on the .NET Framework. You can use C# to create Windows client applications, XML Web services, distributed components, client-server applications, database applications, and much, much more. Visual C# provides an advanced code editor, convenient user interface designers, integrated debugger, and many other tools to make it easier to develop applications based on the C# language and the .NET Framework.

C# (pronounced as C sharp) language is proposed to be simple, robust, economical, Multiplatform support, general purpose language suitable for embedded applications ranging from dedicated functions to very large sophisticated systems. C# 3.0 Microsoft visual studio 2008 .NET Framework IDE is used in this application.

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