Radio frequency identity prototype for lebanese vehicles

Traffic is a critical problem that negatively impacts national economies and the daily life of most people. Moreover, car thefts and parking lots difficulties raise the need for a system that solves these problems and facilitates the daily activities. The proposed solution is the Radio Frequency Car Identity (RF Car ID) system. This system reduces the traffic jam caused by routine license and registration bottlenecks at checkpoints, decreases the risk and severity of accidents, lessens car thefts, and limits access to parking lots and special roads. The RF Car ID system includes the creation of a unique ID for every vehicle using microcontrollers (PIC16F877A), encoding this ID via (MC 145026) encoder, and then transmitting it, wirelessly, at a frequency of 433 MHz. On the other hand, an RF receiver, receives the ID, decodes it using (MC145026) decoder, and then another microcontroller compares this ID with a pre-installed database; the corresponding data is then displayed using a C# program on a personal computer. The RF Car ID developed in this study is a low-cost solution that has a simple architecture and efficient design. Furthermore, the RF Car ID system can be developed to integrate towers that transmit commercial advertisements to cars, in addition to car-to-car communication as social networks, and proximity alert systems.