Design and Implementation of an Anonymous Vehicle Identification System Based on the IoT

Abstract

Security has become an important issue that needs to be addressed in all cities of the world. Simultaneously, information technology is undergoing a period of great development, and it is important to exploit this development in the service of society, particularly in terms of urban security. An Anonymous Vehicle Identification (AVI) system design is thus presented in this research. Much previous research has dealt with the development and implementation of systems to identify anonymous vehicles, and all previously proposed systems appear to work efficiently; however, some are very expensive and others require the installation of many devices within a city. Further, some of them do not transfer information to a control centre in the city using the internet.The proposed AVI system presented in this paper is thus based on Internet of Things (IoT) and consists of two main parts: a handheld device used by officers, and a web application. The handheld device is used to send car licence plate number to a website which is controlled by an authorised person. The authorised person receives the data and requests information relating to the car (car number, owner’s name and mobile number, registered address, etc.) from the Central Traffic Police Directorate, before sending these to the officer’s handheld device to allow the officer to take action based on the information and instructions from the central office. The design of web application is based on several techniques and multiple programming languages including HTML, PHP, and Java Script. These languages are compatible with each other and have thus been combined to form the desired application.The proposed system was implemented practically and tested for about 50 cases; the results obtained during testing were very satisfactory and reflect good reliability within the system.