Online Toll Gate Payment System using RFID &IoT

Abstract

Road transportation system in Indiafacing big challenge to maintain sophisticate Toll plazas. In general method all Vehicles should stop at toll plazas to pay toll tax. One person at Tollgate collects the tax manually and issues the receipt. After payment, the gate will be opened either mechanical method or electrical method. This is a widely used method in India. Due to this, the wastage of time at toll plazas is the main cause to produce more traffic congestion on highways. Traffic congestion on highways at Toll plazas leads to huge economic loss, fuel and time wastage and causes more pollution. As all the people are very busy with their tight schedules they have no time to spare in the traffic. This traffic congestion leads to wastage of their valuable time causing inconvenience. To overcome the drawbacks of the manual method, Online Toll Payment System is developed to reduce the traffic congestion at toll plazas on highways which will become part of the metropolitan and urban cities these days. This system allows the user to make the payment of toll plazas taxes automatically. In this method we use the authentication cards with the help of radiofrequency. The vehicles should contain an RFID tag that has a unique identification number, like name and license number. (owner). RFID is placed on top of the vehicle and when it reaches the electromagnetic zone near toll plaza the RFID reader automatically captures data and electronically identify, track & store information contained on RFID tag then microcontroller sends the message to phone number placed in RFID card regarding payment. The GSM module is interfaced with Microcontroller to send the messages to the vehicle owner like a web link to pay the toll bill. This payment is done with the help of Payment gateways. If the owner should not pay the money within 20 minutes after crossing the toll plaza, this information is posted in the Cloud server using HTTP server. If he/she does not pay in couple days he receives notice from the respective RTO office with the help of data available in the server. It is repeated periodically may chance to cancel the license of the owner. In this proposed method the vehicles are not supposed to stop at toll plazas. They can directly pay the money through the link generated after crossing the plazas. After payment, the owner gets the message like your payment done successfully. This project uses the RFID cards to store vehicle number, owner mobile number and License number. RF scanner is used to scan the RFID cards and interfaced with LPC 2148 ARM Microcontroller. This controller sends message to owner mobile number with the help of the GSM module. This message contains the payment link. This process saves time, reduces money wastage and fuel consumption thus reduces pollution, congestion is reduced leading to speed transport also maintenance is less comparatively.