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Smart Highway Electronic Toll Collection System

Abstract

This paper is based on RFID technology, the RFID system uses RFID tag and RFID reader which collects information of vehicle passing through the toll plaza and automatically debits the toll amount from prepaid account of vehicle owner, which in return reduces the traffic congestion and human errors. The vehicle owner has to register his vehicle with provided RFID tag, creating a rechargeable account. When the vehicle will pass through toll gate the amount of toll will automatically be reduced from its account. The system produced is microcontroller based system with embedded c coding, and the hardware is interfaced with java base coding. The softwares used are netbeans and jdk for hardware, mysql for database and mikro c for interfacing microcontroller. The basic advantages of the system is trvalling time is decreased, congestion free network, less emissions in toll area and no infrastructure cost is required. This gives a win win condition for both toll authorities and toll customers

Ganesh K. Andurkar, Vidya R. Ramteke,

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