AUTOMATED TOLL BOOTH SYSTEM USING RFID Mrs.A.Bhagyalakshmi 1 and Mrs.S.Deepa 2 1,2 Asst.Prof,CSE Department Velammal Engineering College Abstract- Now a days there is a huge rush in the toll plazas in order to pay the toll tax. Therefore in order to reduce the traffic jam and to save time, & also to reduce the money loss we have designed project for the automation in toll tax payment using RFID. We have made the automation of toll plaza using combination of arduino and, RFID.In this project the vehicles are given a unique RFID tag/card which contains an unique id for the vehicle owner,so whenever they passes through the toll booth it can be readed automatically by a RFID reader which is interfaced with an arduino-uno which is programmed in order to deduct the money automatically from their account and also to send an sms alert for the user to indicate that money has been deducted from their account while crossing the toll booth and balance is updated.this method thus reduces traffic congestion as well as minimizing the fuel consumption and makes user comfortable. Keywords- Arduino-uno,RFID tag,rfid reader,gsm. I. INTRODUCTION This system attempts to avoid the manual operation in toll plazas and to automate the toll payments quickly using RFID technique.rfid tags are classified as active and passive tags. Active RFID tags have internal batteries that facilitate long reading range, while the passive RFID tags uses external power source to operate. The RFID tag is used as a unique identity for account of a particular user. When a vehicle drives through the toll plaza, its driver is prompted to scan his RFID tag. If we use RFID tags which are stickled onto the vehicle there is no need for scanning manually as it automatically receives the electromagnetic waves generated by the tags using RFID reader module. We always prefer low frequency tags as it is beneficial for scanning vehicles without any collision. If the identity (serial number of the tag) is fetched then the toll tax is automatically deducted from the consumers account. After this, the vehicle gets immediate access to drive through. This RFID based toll system also has some additional features. A new user can register with the system. Also an old user can recharge his account balance. The amount for recharge can be entered in the system. In beginning, the user is prompted to scan his tag or ID. The serial code of the tag is identified by the reader module and is sent for comparison with stored data. If the ID is matched by the arduino, the toll amount is deducted from user s balance and user gets to drive through the plaza. On the contrary, if the tag is not identified then image of car is captured by camera. A new user needs to register himself after which his identity is verified with RFID tag. II. DRAWBACKS OF EXISTING SYSTEM The existing system consists of manual operation in the toll plaza.i.e.whenever a vehicle arrives at the toll booth the user has to collect the bill manually for the vehicle and pay the cash and sometimes there are some money conversions involved which consumes more time.if we are in emergency situation like when we are going to an exam or when to reach destination at a particular time this manual intervention consumes much more time.there may be some fuel consumption problem also when the vehicle s engine is kept in running condition.there may also wastage of paper to generate bills DOI:10.21884/IJMTER.2016.3122.FWVXB 61
,maintenance of booths and salary payments to the individual who is employed to take care of the booth.so ultimately we need an automated toll booth system to overcome the above circumstances. III. PROPOSED SYSTEM USING RFID The proposed system uses an RFID tag either stickled on the vehicle or uses an RFID card which will contain an unique identitfication number for the user s RFID account which will be issued by an authorized agency or by the road transport corporation officially inorder to avoid duplicate tags.in this system, if a vehicle crosses the toll booth there should be no manual payment instead the RFID reader module captures the low frequency waves generated by the RFID tag which will be then sent to the arduino-uno which is a microcontroller unit. The RFID data given by the RFID reader will then be sent to the Aurdino-UNO and compared with the existing id of the user.if they matches then the money will be automatically deducted from their corresponding account and then an SMS acknowledgement has been sent to the respective mobile number given by the user during registration using a GSM SIM900 module.an alert will also be sent to the user if there is a minimum account balance or incase of any problem. Then the user needs to recharge their respective RFID account immediately. Thus this system prompts the user just to display their RFID tag/cards to the reader module then all the subsequent toll processing will be carried out automatically.fig4.1 shows the architecture of the automated toll booth. IV. ARCHITECTURE Fig. 4.1 Automated Tool Booth system using RFID V. MODULE DESCRIPTION This system is comprised of three modules:the RFID reader,aurdino-uno,gsm SIM900. @IJMTER-2016, All rights Reserved 62
RFID READER Fig. 5.1 RFID reader RFID Reader module is also known as interrogators.the reader shown in fig.5.1 reads the emitted radio frequency waves from the RFID tag.they convert radio waves emitted from the RFID tag into a form that can be passed on to the aurdino-uno.rfid tags and reader have to be tuned to the same frequency in order to communicate each other. The RFID tag consists of a powered or non powered microchip.it can be either stickled on the windshield of the vehicle or either can be shown to the reader.the RFID tags can be active or passive with an antenna and memory. AURDINO-UNO Fig. 5.2 Arduino-Uno Aurdino-uno is used to process the received information from the RFID reader module.as shown in fig.5.2 arduino has a micrcontroller chip which has memory. A program to deduce the tax amount from the user s account is already written and loaded on to the aurdino.as soon as the RFID reader reads the tag the tax amount for that particular user owning that tag is deduced from their account. GSM SIM 900 Fig:5.3 GSM SIM900 @IJMTER-2016, All rights Reserved 63
After deducing the tax amount from the user s account,an acknowledgement message is sent to the user s mobile number by means of GSM SIM-900 module shown in fig.5.3.in case of any situation like user having no balance or minimal balance in their account then an alert kind of message is sent to their mobile number.this message contains the tax amount deduced and the remaining balance in their account. It can communicate with controllers via AT commands (GSM 07.07,07.05 and SIMCOM enhanced AT Commands). This module supports software power on and reset. VI.IMPLEMENTATION Fig.6.1 Overall module of ATB system The Automated toll booth system shown in fig.6.1works by the following principle in which when the consumers use an electronic tag which can be fixed to the vehicle s windshield. As when the RFID tag enabled vehicle passes through the toll booth, an RFID reader at the booth reads the information provided by that particular RFID tag of the consumer. The information may be the account information of the consumer, vehicle details of the consumer etc., these details are acquired since it is embedded in the RFID tag itself. The RFID reader is interfaced to the Aurdino-UNO where the information of each and every vehicle is processed to collect the toll tax. A program for deducting the amount from the consumers account is programmed in the Aurdino-UNO.As soon as the RFID reader reads the consumer information it automatically deducts the amount from the consumers account and acknowledges with a Short Message Service(SMS) to the consumers mobile number with the specifications of the amount deducted for the toll tax and the remaining balance in their account. Whereas in the above process the acknowledgement to the consumer is carried out by the GSM SIM900 module. In some of the circumstances in which there can be a minimal balance or no balance in the consumers account. To tackle this situation an alert message is sent to the consumer and the vehicle is captured by the camera. VII. CONCLUSION In order to implement the Automated toll booth system using RFID the embedded system platform is used. For this purpose a new RFID technology based on Aurdino was implemented and tested in this experiment. By the implementation of automated toll plaza we derived the best solution @IJMTER-2016, All rights Reserved 64
over money loss and by reducing the man power required for collecting the toll tax. This system also deducts the time consumption of each and every consumer in the toll booth. To achieve the automated technique of processing we have implemented Radio Frequency tags and reader, an Aurdino which is a microcontroller unit and a GSM module for acknowledgement. By effective usage of these techniques in various stages we thus overcome the drawbacks in the existing system. VIII. FUTURE WORK In our present concept we are only using the RFID system for vehicle detection.so we can extend the scope of this concept in other way for centralize data recording.for that purpose we can use the IR courten at the entry gate which is followed by the Camera which will be continousely capturing the images of the vehicles entering into the toll plaza.and the third step the RFID is collecting the vehicle number. Now when the vehicle passes through the IR courten it tresses the outline of the vehicle,in the next step the camera will take the image of the vehicle & followed by the RFID to record the data related to the vehicle.the load cell weighs the vehicle & classifies it into two categories as light & heavy vehicle respectively.the whole data collected together & sent to the centralize server which will store it for stippulated time.this application will help in detecting the vehicles in the crime cases like terrorism & smuglling of goods & it will also reduce the load on check posts. REFERENCES [1] AungMyint Win, Chaw MyatNwe, KyawZinLatt(June 2014) RFID Based Automated Toll Plaza System, International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 4, Issue 6. [2] S.Nandhini,P.Premkumar(NOV 2014), Automated Toll Booth System using advanced RFID and GSM technology,international Journal of AdvancedResearch in Electrical and Electronics and Istrumentation Engineering,vol-3,issue4. [3] T.Arun Prasath,M.S.Dhanabal(2013), Automated toll gate system using RFID and GSM,International Journal of Science and Research, ISSN (Online): 2319-7064. [4] KHADIJAH KAMARULAZIZI, DR.WIDADISMAIL(2005), Electronic Toll Collection System using RFID technology,journal of Theoretical and applied Information Technology, 2005-2010 JATIT & LLS. [5] Sanchit Agarwal,Shachi Gupta,Nidheesh Sharma(2014), Electronic toll collection system using barcode and laser technology, International Journal of Emerging Trends & Technology in Computer Science (IJETTCS), International Journal of Emerging Trends & Technology in Computer Science (IJETTCS) [6] Aniruddha Kumawat, Kshitija Chandramore(april 2014), Automatic Toll collection using RFID,International journal of Electrical and Electronics Research,vol 2,issue 2. [7] Kruti Sanghvi, Prof.Amol Joglekar (2015), Automating the payment of toll taxes at toll plazas, ) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies, Vol. 6 (3). [8] Pranoti Salunke,Poonam Malle,Kirti Datir, Jayshree Dukale(2013), Automated Toll collection System using RFID,IOSR-Journal of Computer Engineering,vol9-issue2. [9] Sachin Bhosale(2013), Automated Toll Plaza System using RFID,International Jounal of Science Research and Engineering Research,volume 2,issue1. @IJMTER-2016, All rights Reserved 65